Steve Mickler was born in Canada in 1957 and migrated to Australia in 1974. He has a BA in Communication Studies (Murdoch University, 1978), a Post-Graduate Diploma (Distinction) in Communication and Cultural Studies (Curtin University, 1990), and completed a Humanities Ph.D at Murdoch University in 1996.
Between 1981 and 1992, he worked in government in Aboriginal affairs in the Northern Territory for the Chief Minister's Department, and in Western Australia for the Department for Aboriginal Affairs and then the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). In 1990, Dr Mickler was a researcher into Aboriginal-media relationships with the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
He is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism in the School of Media and Information at Curtin University of Technology, Perth. (http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/impi/mickler.html )
