Reporting in Australia

Reporting in Australia
Author: Sally A. White
Publisher: Macmillan Education AU
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1996
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780732926069

First published in 1991, this second edition of a guide for reporters and other professional writers has been revised and updated. It contains new sections on researching and interviewing online, reporting from polls and surveys and effective listening in interviews. Incorporates new information on newsroom organisation and the effect of technological change on journalism. Includes references, a glossary and an index. The author is an experienced journalist. She is co-author of 'Ethics and the Australian News Media'.

Rise and Fall of Australia, The

Rise and Fall of Australia, The
Author: Nick Bryant
Publisher: Random House Australia
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857989022

A forensic look at the Lucky Country, from the inside and outside. Never before has Australia enjoyed such economic, commercial, diplomatic and cultural clout. Its recession-proof economy is the envy of the world. It's the planet's great lifestyle superpower. Its artistic exports win unprecedented acclaim. But never before has its politics been so brutal, narrow and facile, as well as being such a global laughing stock. A positive national story is at odds with a deeply unattractive Canberra story. The country should be enjoying The Australian Moment, so vividly described by the best-selling author George Megalogenis. But that description may turn out to be inadvertently precise. It could end up being just that: a fleeting moment. At present the country seems to be in speedy regression, with the nation's leaders, on both sides, mired in relatively small problems, such as the arrival of boat people, rather than mapping out a larger and more inspiring national future. In The Rise and Fall of Australia, BBC correspondent and author Nick Bryant offers an outsider's take on the great paradox of modern-day Australian life: of how the country has got richer at a time when its politics have become more impoverished. In this thoroughly entertaining and thought-provoking book, dealing with politics, racism, sexism, the country's place in the region and the world, culture and sport, the author argues that Australia needs to discard the out-dated language used to describe itself, to push back against Lucky Country thinking, to celebrate how the cultural creep has replaced the cultural cringe and to stop negatively typecasting itself. Rejecting most of the national stereotypes, Nick Bryant sets out to describe the new Australia rather than the mythic country so often misunderstood not just by foreigners but Australians themselves.

Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging

Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging
Author: David Nolan
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2018-03-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 178308779X

Containing contributions by leading scholars, ‘Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging’ addresses key topical themes and concerns in contemporary Australia.

Australian TV News

Australian TV News
Author: Stephen Harrington
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Satire, Australian
ISBN: 9781841507170

Contents: Drawing extensively on qualitative audience research and industry interviews, this book demonstrates that while 'infotainment' and satirical programmes may not follow the journalism orthodoxy, they nevertheless play an important role in the way everyday Australians understand what is happening in the world.

Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific Century

Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific Century
Author: Australian Government - Department of Defence - Defence Publishing Service
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2009
Genre: Australia
ISBN: 9780642297020

This new Defence White Paper explains how the Government plans to strengthen the foundations of Australia's defence. It sets out the Government's plans for Defence for the next few years, and how it will achieve those plans. Most importantly, it provides an indication of the level of resources that the Government is planning to invest in Defence over coming years and what the Government, on behalf of the Australian people, expects in return from Defence. Ultimately, armed forces exist to provide Governments with the option to use force. Maintaining a credible defence capability is a crucial contributor to our security, as it can serve to deter potential adversaries from using force against us or our allies, partners and neighbours.

What Really Happened In Wuhan

What Really Happened In Wuhan
Author: Sharri Markson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1460714024

Walkley Award-winning journalist, Sharri Markson is the Investigations Editor at The Australian and host of prime-time show Sharri on Sky News Australia. The origins of Covid-19 are shrouded in mystery. Scientists and government officials insisted, for a year and a half, that the virus had a natural origin, ridiculing anyone who dared contradict this view. Tech giants swept the internet, censoring and silencing debate in the most extreme fashion. Yet it is undeniable that a secretive facility in Wuhan was immersed in genetically manipulating bat-coronaviruses in perilous experiments. And as soon as the news of an outbreak in Wuhan leaked, the Chinese military took control and gagged all laboratory insiders. Part-thriller, part-expose, What Really Happened in Wuhan is a ground-breaking investigation from leading journalist Sharri Markson into the origins of Covid-19, the cover-ups, the conspiracies and the classified research. It features never-before-seen primary documents exposing China's concealment of the virus, fresh interviews with whistleblower doctors in Wuhan and crucial eyewitness accounts that dismantle what we thought we knew about when the outbreak hit. With unprecedented access to Washington insiders, Markson takes you inside the White House, with senior Trump lieutenants revealing first-hand accounts of fiery Oval Office clashes and new stories of compromised government advisors and censored scientists. Bravely reported and chillingly laid out, Markson brings to light the stories of the pandemic from the people on the ground: the scientists and national security officials who raised uncomfortable truths and were labelled conspiracy theorists, until government agencies began to suspect they might have been right all along. These brave individuals persisted through bruising battles and played a crucial role in investigating the origins of Covid-19 to finally, in this book, bring us closer to the truth of what really happened in Wuhan.