Peter Manning is Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, where he also received his PhD in 2014. Before turning to academia, he was an investigative reporter, producer and then executive producer of Four Corners in the 1980s and head of ABC TV News and Current Affairs in the early 1990s, starting Lateline, Foreign Correspondent and Landline. He later went on to be head of Current Affairs at the Seven Network.

The framework of Peter Manning’s Representing Palestine: Media and Journalism in Australia since World War I is one of great interest to an Australian readership... Manning shows that the Herald’s unconscionable omissions and orientalist tropes helped make Palestinians ‘a vacant slate for a later portrayal that suited the Western powers’, as a people devoid of humanity. In this and other valuable points, Manning’s book is an excellent contribu-tion to the field of both Palestine studies and Australian media history.

Peter Manning is Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, where he also received his PhD in 2014. Before turning to academia, he was an investigative reporter, producer and then executive producer of Four Corners in the 1980s and head of ABC TV News and Current Affairs in the early 1990s, starting Lateline, Foreign Correspondent and Landline. He later went on to be head of Current Affairs at the Seven Network.

The framework of Peter Manning’s Representing Palestine: Media and Journalism in Australia since World War I is one of great interest to an Australian readership... Manning shows that the Herald’s unconscionable omissions and orientalist tropes helped make Palestinians ‘a vacant slate for a later portrayal that suited the Western powers’, as a people devoid of humanity. In this and other valuable points, Manning’s book is an excellent contribu-tion to the field of both Palestine studies and Australian media history.

Peter Manning is Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, where he also received his PhD in 2014. Before turning to academia, he was an investigative reporter, producer and then executive producer of Four Corners in the 1980s and head of ABC TV News and Current Affairs in the early 1990s, starting Lateline, Foreign Correspondent and Landline. He later went on to be head of Current Affairs at the Seven Network.

The framework of Peter Manning’s Representing Palestine: Media and Journalism in Australia since World War I is one of great interest to an Australian readership... Manning shows that the Herald’s unconscionable omissions and orientalist tropes helped make Palestinians ‘a vacant slate for a later portrayal that suited the Western powers’, as a people devoid of humanity. In this and other valuable points, Manning’s book is an excellent contribu-tion to the field of both Palestine studies and Australian media history.