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It seems to be a time of old favourites: this month we have new seasons, adaptations, and a documentary on childhood television memories.
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The weather might be turning, and the sun might be shining – but these picks will have you wanting to spend some more time on the couch.
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Latecomers looks at the role of sex and sexuality in the lives of disabled people.
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Grief is messy, surprising, revealing and honest at different times and all at once. Here, it is also funny.
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Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code has garnered global interest – but the Canadians want a model with more transparency.
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The end of the controversial indexation freeze and retention of the news gathering program do not make up for the massive cuts already inflicted on the national broadcasters.
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SBS’s new four part murder mystery examines Chinese experience on the Australian goldfields during the 1850s.
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There’s something satisfying about how grimy, disastrous and flawed Ace and Iggy are allowed to be in this new SBS web series.
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In this new SBS series, four Melbourne families must deal with the ghosts of their past – both literal and metaphorical.
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This new NITV documentary captures the power of Country.
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The federal government has announced a package to help regional media through the coronavirus crisis. But our national broadcasters have not been so lucky.
Michelle Guthrie in 2018: the former ABC managing director made greater staff diversity a top priority. But her final Equity and Diversity annual report failed to meet several long-held targets.
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As we face a growing tide of unregulated hate speech, the media is crucial in normalising diversity. Yet progress here has been slow. Even the ABC has failed to meet some of its own targets for hiring a diversity of employees.
SBS is continuing to tap into the slow TV trend, with its suite of ‘Slow Summer’ programming, including one exploring the Kimberley.
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Slow TV is perfect viewing for our binge-watching, multi-tasking population.
The competitive neutrality report has given the ABC, and SBS, a clean bill of health.
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An ACCC interim report is one of the most consequential documents for media policy in decades, while a government report finds both public broadcasters are acting in the public interest.
Fifield said he recognised the broadcasters’ charters were broad and.
allowed flexibility in how their boards implemented them.
The outcome will be disappointing to News Corp in particular which has
been highly critical of the ABC’s expansion in online publishing.
With reviews into the ABC underway on its competitive neutrality and its efficiency, Milne said that, echoing the past, some rivals urged the ABC should be banned from providing digital services and restricted to linear radio and television.
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In a strong defence of the public broadcaster, its chairman has warned against clipping the ABC’s digital wings and defended its place in preserving the nation’s identity.
The government’s competitive neutrality inquiry will examine the online news services of public broadcasters ABC and SBS.
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The focus raises questions about the motives behind the inquiry and how it might benefit anti-ABC crusaders, including Pauline Hanson.
Pauline Hanson’s support for media reforms requires increased scruntiny of public broadcasters.
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Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has won major measures to increase scrutiny of the ABC and potentially clip its wings.
Broadcaster Les Murray, who has passed away aged 71, was the archetypal team member.
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Les Murray helped football transform itself from a predominantly migrant activity in Australia into what he loved to call ‘the world game’.
A billabong on SBS website My Grandmother’s Lingo, which takes viewers on an interactive journey through the Marra language.
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A beautiful interactive SBS online documentary puts the spotlight on Marra, an Indigenous language spoken fluently by just three people.