Background
She was born in 1937 in Mildura, Victoria, and moved to California in the 1960s with her husband (author and social researcher DR Don Edgar) and two children to study at Stanford University.
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Patricia Edgar
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On their return to Australia, Edgar joined the staff of Louisiana Trobe University, where she also completed a Doctor of Philosophy.
Career
In 1975, Gough Whitlam"s government appointed Edgar to Australian Broadcasting Control Board where she was instrumental in formulating codes for children"s television for the first time. She took part in the establishment of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal"s Program Standards for children"s television, and was founding director of the Australian Children"s Television Foundation (ACTF). She was executive producer for the 1988 Bicentenary ACTF project Touch the Sun.
She was the producer of the popular television programme Round the Twist 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 recently a memoir Bloodbath: A Memoir of Australian Television which prompted Phillip Adams to write "I would regard Patricia Edgar as a sort of human tank.
Patricia is a sort of Centurion in her abilities to kick down doors and push walls over. She is annoying, irritating, relentless, drives people mad, but she gets things done" 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.
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Australia