Digital resources tagged with ‘media and society’

ABC Online & Broadband Production

What does the end of the 'golden age of Australian broadcast media' mean? Stuart Cunningham discusses the idea.

Aboriginal People in the Gibson Desert

Aboriginal People in the Gibson Desert is an excerpt from the film Desert People (51 mins), produced in 1966. In 1966 a few Aboriginal families were living nomadic lives in the heart of Australia's Gibson Desert.

Aussie-made content

Australian film and television production is competing in a globalised world with big international production companies who market their product effectively to the world market.

Broadcast Media Ownership

Trevor Barr looks forward to the future of broadcasting and the internet in Australia.

Broadcaster control

Liz Jacka details the history of broadcaster control and the introduction of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board.

CAAMA & Indigenous Broadcasting

A broadcast studio at Radio Redfern in the late 80s. Christina Spurgeon talks about the importance of providing media services to remote Indigenous communities to the culture, identity and language of Aboriginal Australians.

Cash for comment

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

Censorship in Media

John Safran discusses censorship in Australian media.

Community radio

Gary Adams describes the experience in the 1970s of listening to pirate radio stations and how this led to the demand for public radio.

Community TV

The role of community television in general and its role in training TV personalities.

Creating an Australian Image

Stuart Cunningham explains how innovations in technology have transformed television content.

Developing Cartoon Themes

Cartoonist David Pope explains how an idea is developed into the day's cartoon.

Early radio broadcasting

An excerpt from The Royal Empire Society Banquet. Liz Jacka describes the impact which radio broadcasts had on Australian life.

Ethnic Community Broadcasting

Liz Jacka talks about how SBS was established to cater to minority communities as part of multicultural policy in the late 1970s.

Family radio

A young boy plays along with a musical game during one of the many ABC broadcasts for children. Children from around Australia tune into a kindergarten broadcast over the ABC. Tim Bowden remembers the ABC children's program The Argonauts.

First prime-time Soap Opera

Scott Goodings links the popularity of Number 96, first screened in 1972, with the post-Menzies liberalisation of society and media content.

Fox Movietone News

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

Harold Holt’s Briefcase

The disappearance of our seventeenth Prime Minister, Harold Holt, during a beach holiday sparked countless conspiracy theories. The items left in his briefcase are a significant time capsule of his last days as Prime Minister.

Imparja: Indigenous Broadcasting

Imparja Television allows Indigenous communities to tell their stories and to communicate both with each other as well as the wider Australian community.

Independent media

Trevor Barr talks about independent media and behind the scenes at Radio Redfern as another show goes to air.

Indymedia

Stuart Cunningham talks about how and why Australian content has changed over the last 40 years.

Launch of Pay TV

The issues surrounding the establishment of Pay TV in Australia.

Launch of TV

Liz Jacka provides a brief history of the debate on how to establish television broadcasting in Australia. Tim Bowden recalls the enthusiasm with which Australians embraced television.

Lighthouse Keepers and Their Families

Three lighthouse keepers and their families are the only residents on remote and windswept Maatsuyke Island, off the south-west coast of Tasmania.

Media and ethnic broadcasting

Australians tune in to a radio address from Immigration Minister Arthur Caldwell in 1949. Liz Jacka describes how the world opened up for SBS' audience through its early broadcasts.

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.

Newsreels before sound

Newsreels included events of both political and social importance and were screened all day long in specially designed cinemas.

Newsreels boost morale

Newsreels of the war boosted the morale of Australians at the home front. The newsreel of Australian troops on the Kokoda Track shared the Oscar for Best Documentary in 1942.

Public broadcasting

Families tune in to a broadcast of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra over the ABC. Liz Jacka describes how the BBC's preference for 'high culture' programming influenced the nature of early broadcasts in Australia.

Race Around the World

Technology has revolutionised the nature of 'guerrilla filmmaking'.

Radio Soap Operas

Actors gather around a microphone to record an episode of radio soap The Country Hour. Tim Bowden reflects on how significant radio series were in Australia.

Reality TV

An excerpt from a live 'eviction' episode of the popular reality TV series Big Brother. Scott Goodings describes his experience of watching reality TV.

Robert Menzies’ Camera

Robert Menzies’ lifelong passion for home movies resulted in a surprisingly personal record of the war years, including footage of a young Princess Elizabeth.

Satire and Democracy, Joe Hockey

Joe Hockey talks about political cartoons in the media and their personal effect on the subject.

SBS Charter

John Safran, Megan Spencer and Scott Goodings discuss the nature of programming at SBS.

Stanley Melbourne Bruce's Cigarette Case

Stanley Melbourne Bruce treasured Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s gift of a gold cigarette case throughout his life.

Technology Timeline 1960s: film vs video image quality

Ray Edmondson compares the image quality of 35mm and 16mm film when it is transmitted in cinemas, on television and over the Internet.

The ABC Act

Behind the scenes of a radio broadcast and the role of the Postmaster-General Department personnel. Liz Jacka talks about how the Australian Broadcasting Commission was modeled on the BBC and the philosophy of its director John Reith.

The Effect of Cartoons

Bruce Petty investigates the effects of political satire and cartooning.

The Environmental Bandwagon

David Pope takes us through the evolution of his political cartoon "The Environmental Bandwagon"

The Global Machine

Humans have always argued over territory; it’s just that the weapons get deadlier and the rules keep changing.

The Media Machine

Electrified, digitalised then globalised, the media machine has created fantasy so spectacular that it makes the truth look badly acted.

The Ratings War

The ruthless world of commercial television and its chase for ratings is compared to the programming motivations of the public broadcaster.

The Role of Cartoons

Cartoonist David Pope talks about the creation and influence of political cartooning.

The Youth Market

Tim Bowden reflects on the emergence of youth culture with the advent of rock'n'roll.

Triple J

Triple J takes popular culture from the big cities to young people across Australia.

Tuning in to the ABC

The archival clip shows the ABC network as it was in the 1955. Tim Bowden reflects on the power of ABC broadcasts to unify states and cities across Australia.

TV Pop & Rock

The opening sequence from Six O'Clock Rock - Australia's first national teenage programme on the ABC. Scott Goodings gives a history of music shows on Australian television.

TV Soap Opera

TV soap operas have the ability to reflect Australian society and culture and connect people through the shared memory of watching a television show.

Video cassettes and Colour TV

Tim Bowden recalls the technical difficulties of getting programs to air in the early days of news and current affairs.

William Hughes and the 1916 Conscription Badge

William Hughes, “The Little Digger”, campaigned twice for national conscription to boost an Australian army decimated by World War One.

World Wide Web

Websites are the new vehicles for advertising.