Patricia Edgar

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Patricia Edgar has been an history teacher, an author, a University Lecturer and a television producer.

Edgar received an Honorary Doctorate from Melbourne University. Edgar took part in the establishment of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal's Program Standards for children's television. She is best known as the founding Director of the Australian Children's Television Foundation

Edgar was appointed to the Australian Broadcasting Control Board. In the early 1980s she helped, along with others, too establish the Australian Children's Television Foundation.

Over twenty-years, the ACTF won multiple awards including an Emmy and made co-productions with the BBC, Disney and Revcom.

Her books about television and the media include Children and Screen Violence, Under Five in Australia, Media She (with Hilary McPhee), The Politics of the Press and most recently Bloodbath: A Memoir of Australian Television.

Edgar lives in Melbourne with her husband, author and social researcher Don Edgar, near her two daughters and four grandchildren. She is chair of the World Summit on Media for Children Foundation. A breast cancer victim, she also chairs the Breast Cancer Network of Australia.

Edgar has retired from the ACTF.

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