Digital resources tagged with ‘current affairs programs’

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Every digital resource on Screen Australia’s Digital Learning site is tagged with descriptive terms. This list shows the resources which are tagged with ‘current affairs programs’.

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Cash for comment

The 'Cash for Comment' affair in 1999 showed Australian audiences how corrupt and corruptible commercial broadcasting can be.

VIC / VCE Unit 2 / Media / Australian media organisations
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Censorship in Media

John Safran discusses censorship in Australian media.

VIC / VELS Level 6 / English / Censorship in media
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Audiences
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Cinesound Review

Ray Edmondson provides a history of Cinesound. Liz Jacka talks abut the differences between newsreels and today's TV news.

NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 3 Australia between the Wars
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Fox Movietone News

The importance in Australian news broadcasting history of Movietone and other newsreels.

NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 3 Australia between the Wars
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News as Entertainment

John Safran talks about the use of 'doorstopping' in current affairs programs. Scott Goodings traces the celebrity and entertainment value of today's news broadcasts to the 'news wars' of the late 1980s.

VIC / VCE Unit 2 / Media / Australian media organisations
VIC / VCE Unit 2 / Media / Australian media organisations
NSW / Stage 5 / Photographic and Digital Media / Interactive and Moving Forms