Patricia Edgar

Patricia May Edgar AM (born 11 March 1937) is an Australian author, television producer, educator and media scholar best known as the founding director of the Australian Children's Television Foundation.

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 for an MA in Communication at Stanford University. On their return to Australia, Edgar joined the staff of La Trobe University as the inaugural Head of the Centre for the Study of media and Communication. She introduced the first courses on film and television production and cinema studies in an Australian University. At la Trobe she also completed a PhD.

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). Over twenty years, the ACTF won multiple awards including an Emmy, and made co-productions with the BBC, Disney and Revcom. 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

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