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longstanding and continuous camaraderie and friendship, even now that I have moved to
the other side of the globe, from the ‘heart’ of Europe—Amsterdam—to the ‘end’ of the
world—Perth, Australia.
I would like to thank Murdoch University for offering me a Special Research Grant in
1993. My special thanks also to the School of Humanities at Murdoch for providing me
with an exceptionally stimulating academic environment and for the SHRAF grant, which
provided me with research assistance to finish this project. I thank Paula O’Brien for her
diligent work in preparing the manuscript. Within the Communication Studies
programme, I thank Irma Whitford and Alec McHoul for being such supportive and
appreciative programme chairs, Tom O’Regan for the long conversations on Australian
television and many other things, Dona Kolar-Panov for being the best tutor a course
coordinator could hope for, and Merrylyn Braden for the warm secretarial assistance. For
the all-important comprehensive feminine life-support, both intellectual and emotional, I
thank Zoë Sofoulis, Krishna Sen and, especially, Mitzi Goldman. My final thanks go to
Jon Stratton, from whose insights I have learned more than is imaginable.
Fremantle, January 1995