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Bruce Elder has worked as a
music critic since 1972. He started reviewing popular music for the Sydney
Morning Herald in 1987 and joined the paper full time in 1996. In that year
he won the Geraldine Pascall Prize for Critical Writing. Bruce is an Arts
graduate from Sydney University. He worked as a music journalist in England
from 1974-1981, was Triple Jay's and Australian Rolling Stone's
first London correspondent, and has written numerous books including the
critically acclaimed Blood on the Wattle: the massacres and
maltreatment of Australian Aborigines since 1788.
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- He currently reviews world
music, country, blues and folk music and writes the Short Non-Fiction
Reviews for the Spectrum section of the Sydney Morning Herald. He has
lived in Kiama for the past 25 years.
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- Bruce is a Director of the
Geraldine Pascall Foundation and is the Convenor of the judging panel for
the 2007 Pascall Prize.
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