Why collect television news and current affairs?
As well as illustrating how news and current affairs have been conveyed to Australian audiences since 1988, the content of each broadcast displays Australian history as it happened. As a production and research resource, it is invaluable. The Project is of interest to researchers for a number of reasons: • Historic importance: the project captures news events as they happen and as recorded by the television industry; • Regional significance: stories of significance to regional communities in Australia captures the detail of local events; • Social and cultural importance: Australia’s news information plays an important role in shaping Australia’s identity; • News and current affairs formats: the evolution in the style and content of news and current affairs presentations, and how that style varies between cable, national, metropolitan and regional stations. Direct access to information about the television news and current affairs holdings is available on the online collection database.
