UWA appoints foundation professor in journalism

Winthrop Professor Peter van Onselen has been appointed by the University of Western Australia to develop the university’s new Masters of International Journalism course. van Onselen was awarded his PhD in political science from UWA. He was an associateprofessor in Politics and Government at Edith Cowan He has authored or edited a number of books on Australian politics, including John Winston Howard: The Biography, published by Melbourne University Press. He is a contributor to Australia’s leading academic journal on politics during the last decade: The Australian Journal of Political Science.