Australia and New Zealand Communication Association
Abstract
The author reflects on the 31st anniversary of the "Australian Journal of Communication," Colleen Mills's Presidential Address, which was delivered at the Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Communication in July 2006, Stephen Crofts' analyses of media discourse, Steven Maras' work on Australian Communication Studies, and the Australian Research Council's insistence on the Research Quality Framework. Additional article topics include Leesa Bonniface, Lelia Green, and Maurice Swanson's experimental website, HeartNET, a paper by Libby Lester on the complexities and contradictions of journalism, papers on media constructions by Peter Bishop, Raymond Naim, and John Coverdale, and the 2007 ANZCA conference