At a time when
Australian Story has become a Monday night fixture for the ABC, it’s hard to believe that, when it arrived in 1996, it seemed radical. It’s now such a familiar favourite that executive producer Caitlin Shea worries sometimes that it’s too much like “an old, comfy pair of slippers”.
As it celebrates its silver jubilee in May,
Australian Story is popular with viewers, a cornerstone of a strategically significant prime-time block on a key night, and an enduring reminder that current affairs need not be invasive to be effective.
Australian Story subjects (clockwise, from top left): comedian Magda Szubanski, former governor-general Peter
Whereâs the reporter? The current affairs show that defied the odds
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At a time when
Australian Story has become a Monday night fixture for the ABC, itâs hard to believe that when it arrived in 1996, it seemed radical. Itâs now such a familiar favourite that executive producer Caitlin Shea worries sometimes that itâs too much like âan old, comfy pair of slippersâ.
As it celebrates its silver jubilee in May,
Australian Story is popular with viewers, a cornerstone of a strategically significant prime-time block on a key night, and an enduring reminder that current affairs need not be invasive to be effective.
Rupert Murdoch at 90: Fox, succession and one more big play
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By: Alex Barker, Anna Nicolaou and James Fontanella-Khan
In his twilight years, the question of what happens to the Murdoch media dynasty still seems to involve a family struggle. By his own reckoning, Rupert Murdoch was supposed to die a fortnight ago, on a Tuesday afternoon.
The media mogul scribbled the moment of his demise on a piece of paper in 2001 and flourished it during an interview taking stock of a five-decade career, which had turned a ho-hum Adelaide newspaper that he inherited from his father Sir Keith Murdoch into a global business empire, courted and feared by politicians across the English speaking world.