BOOKS:

• Media and Journalism: A User’s Guide to Theory and Practice, with Jason Bainbridge and Liz Tynan. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2009
• Tasmanian’s Remember: 1900-1969, Hobart: Gentrx Publications, 2000
• Sandy Bay: A Social History, Hobart: Gentrx Publications, 1999
• Sullivan’s Cove, Hobart: The Sullivan’s Cove Development Authority, 1995.
• The Hobart Town Hall, Hobart: Hobart City Council, 1994; reprinted 2006
• The Tasmanian Centenary Diary, Hobart: The Mercury, 1993.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

(Forthcoming 2010) “Women in Politics: Sarah Palin and Julia Gillard: Media Spotlight Down Under” The Palin Factor: Political Mothers and Public Motherhood in the 21st Century. (Ed) Andrea O’Reilly and Deirdre M. Condit, York: Demeter Press.

“ Motherhood and Murder, Joanne Hayes and the Kerry Babies Case.” Mothering and Popular Culture. Ed. Elizabeth Podnieks. Toronto: McGill-Queen’s UP, Forthcoming 2009.

 “ ‘Bad Mummy’ - Kate McCann and the Media.” Mis/Representing Evil: Evil in an Interdisciplinary Key (Ed.) Charlene Burns. Interdisciplinary Press Fisher Imprints, 2009.

“Citizen Journalist and news images.” State of the News Print Media in Australia: 2008 Report. Sydney: Australian Press Council, 2008.

 “Monstrous Mothers and the Media.” Monsters and the Monstrous. Ed. Niall Scott. Media Inter-Disciplinary Press: Oxford, 2007.

 “Mothers and Madness: The Media Representation of Postpartum Psychosis and Infanticide.” Probing the Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health, Illness and Disease. Ed. Peter L. Twohig and Vera Kalitzkus. New York: Rodopi, 2004.

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

 “Medea in the Courtroom and on the Stage in Nineteenth-Century London.” Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies (2) 2009.

 “The Beaconsfield mine disaster and the evolution of chequebook journalism” (with Jason Bainbridge). Australian Journalism Review 30 (1) July 2008 pp 99-112

 “Cooperative Education in Journalism Studies.” Co-authored with Ruth Thomas. International Handbook for Cooperative Education. Ed, Richard K. Coll and Chris Eames. Waikato: WACE, 2004.

PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PAPERS:

 “Monstrous Mothers and the Media.”e-journal Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, ISSN: 1471-5597. http://www.wickedness.net/ejvols.htm. June 2005.

 “Mothers and Madness: The Media Representation of Postpartum Psychosis and Infanticide.”  http://www.wickedness.net/ejvols.htm July 2003.

 “From Convict Prison to the Gothic Ruins of Tourist Attraction.” Historic Environment, Islands of Vanishment. 16 (2002): 22-26.

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

“The Future of Journalism on the World Wide Web.” 7th International Humanities Conference, Beijing, June 1-5 2009.

“‘Bad Mummy’ - Kate McCann and the Media.” Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness Salzburg, March 2008.

“‘Tell Me How Big Your Chequebook Is?’ Chequebook Journalism and the Changing Nature of Celebrity.” Unaustralia Conference. Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference, Canberra, 4-7 December 2006.

 “The Story of Edith Roberts and the Leicester Mercury’s Media Campaign.” International symposium Form and Style in Journalism: Newspapers and the Representation of News 1880-2006.University of Tasmania, 14-15 December 2006.

 “Infanticide News and the Medical Expert Witness.” International Motherlode Conference, The Third Australian International Conference on Motherhood: Theorizing and Representing Maternal Subjectivities Association for Research on Mothering (ARM), Brisbane, October 2005.

 “Monstrous Mothers and the Media.” Monstrous Interdisciplinary Conference, Oxford Research Nexus, Budapest, May 2005.

 “Infanticide at the Oatlands Gaol.” Colonialism and its Aftermath, Hobart, June 2004.

 “Professional Placement: A Tasmanian Experience.” JEANZ Annual Conference, The Future of Journalism Education, Wellington, New Zealand, November 2003.

 “Mothers and Madness: The Media Representation of Postpartum Psychosis and Infanticide.” Probing the Boundaries, Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease, St Hilda’s College, Oxford, July 2003.

 “Infanticide as an Escape Narrative: The Story of Mary McLauchlan.” Colonialism and Its Aftermath Conference, Strahan, Tasmania, June 2003.

 “When the Editor is the Defendant.” JEA: Australian Journalism Educator’s Australasian Conference, Perth, WA, December 2002.

 “From Convict Prison to the Gothic Ruins of Tourist Attraction.” Islands of Vanishment Conference, Port Arthur, Tasmania, June 2002.