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Christina Slade

Christina Slade

Christina Slade is Emeritus Professor at of Bath Spa University where she was the Vice-Chancellor. Prior to that she was the Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at the City University London and Macquarie University’s Dean of Humanities and Professor of Media Theory at the University of Utrecht and the Head of the Creative Communication School at the University of Canberra. Her research is at the intersection of philosophy and media. She has published on critical and creative  thinking, citizenship, language, and the role of media in national identity.

Christina Slade reviews 'Don Dunstan: The visionary politician who changed Australia' by Angela Woollacott

October 2019, no. 415 25 September 2019
Don Dunstan tended to divide those around him, even his parents. His father, Viv, moved from Adelaide to become a company man in Fiji. Peter Kearsley, a contemporary of Don’s who later became chief justice of Fiji, said Viv was ‘a fair dinkum sort of chap’, ‘the sort who would have been an office bearer in a bowling club’. His mother, according to Kearsley, was ‘genteel … deliberatel ... (read more)