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Helen Ester is a media scholar and media professional who teachers Journalism and Communication at Central Queensland University. She has enjoyed a long and varied career as a teacher and journalist that has spanned more than thirty years.
As a media professional Helen Ester's experience includes:
Television work has included working for SBS TV as a journalist/trainer and casual desk journalist. She has also worked for Imparja/CAAMA TV productions in Alice Springs.
Ester was a journalist member of a delegation of three women who in 1979-80 went to Vietnam, Kampuchia, and the border camps for refugees on the Thai border on a visit arranged by the Union of Vietnamese Women and the Australia Vietnam Society. Other members were economist Melanie Beresford and trade unionist Aileen Beaver. She was given transcripts of the People's Revolutionary Tribunal, held in 1979, while she was touring with the delegation. These transcripts are held with her papers in the National Library of Australia.
Nikki Henningham
Created: 21 August 2008, Last modified: 5 February 2009
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