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Louise Bellamy

Lecturer, Journalism

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Biography

Following studying arts at Melbourne University, Louise Bellamy worked at The Melbourne Times before joining The Age in the 1980s where she first became involved in indigenous issues while reporting the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. She moved to London in 1990 where she was editor of a local paper, Newham News, in one of London's poorest boroughs.  Returning to Melbourne in 1993, she edited a chain of papers in Melbourne's western suburbs, The Western Independent. She started lecturing in print journalism at RMIT in 1999 and later at James Cook University, North Queensland. From 2006-2008 she taught young, indigenous offenders at the Melbourne Youth Justice Centre and has lectured in print journalism at Monash University since 2009.