TONY MOORE is a Professor in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, where he heads up a major Australian Research Council project Comedy Country: Australian Performance Comedy as an Agent of Change and Conviction Politics: the Convict Routes of Australian Democracy. A former ABC documentary maker and book publisher, Tony is a author of Fringe to Famous: Cultural Production in Australia After the Creative Industries (2024), Dancing with Empty Pockets: Australia’s Bohemians since 1860 (2012), Death or Liberty: Rebels and Radicals Transported to Australia 1788-1868 (2010), and The Barry McKenzie Movies (2005).