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Weekend Agenda
''Agenda'' is the name given to a series of Australian television news and commentary programs, broadcast on Sky News Australia throughout the week. The ''Agenda'' series of bulletins serve as the channel's flagship program. The series focuses on mainly political topics, and in each episode the host usually interviews a guest, and is then usually joined by either Sky News contributors or politicians from opposing sides of politics debating the issues of the day. With the exception of ''Sunday Agenda'' and the Thursday episode of ''PM Agenda'', the program is broadcast live from the Sky News studio at Parliament House in Canberra. The other programs are broadcast from the main Sky News centre in the Sydney suburb of Macquarie Park. ''Lunchtime Agenda'' was ended on 29 May 2015, when it was replaced by ''To The Point'' co-hosted by Peter van Onslen and Kristina Keneally. ''Saturday Agenda'' ended in 2015, when its presenter David Lipson defected to the ABC and the format was e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News
News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different Media (communication), media: word of mouth, printing, Mail, postal systems, broadcasting, Telecommunications, electronic communication, or through the testimony of Witness, observers and witnesses to events. News is sometimes called "hard news" to differentiate it from soft media. Common topics for news reports include war, government, politics, education, health, the Climate change, environment, economy, business, fashion, entertainment, and sport, as well as Wikipedia:Unusual articles, quirky or unusual events. Government proclamations, concerning Monarchy, royal ceremonies, Law, laws, Tax, taxes, public health, and Crime, criminals, have been dubbed news since ancient times. Technology, Technological and Social change, social developments, often driven by government communication and espionage networks, have increased the speed with which news can spread, as well as influenced its conten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macquarie Park
Macquarie Park () is a suburb in the Northern Sydney region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Macquarie Park is located 13 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Ryde. Macquarie Park was part of the suburb of North Ryde until it was gazetted as a suburb in its own right on 5 February 1999, and many businesses still use North Ryde as the address. Both suburbs share the 2113 postcode but Macquarie University, which is located at the northern part of the suburb, has its own postcode of 2109. History Aboriginal culture The whole area between the Parramatta and Lane Cove Rivers was originally known by its Aboriginal name Wallumatta. Contact with the first white settlement's bridgehead into Australia quickly devastated much of the population through epidemics of smallpox and other diseases. Their descendants live on, though their language, social system, way of life and traditions are mostly lost. The Abor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Dalley
Helen Dalley (born 1957) is an Australian journalist, who formerly worked for Kerry Packer's Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL) media stable. Dalley is best known for her work on the Nine Network television programs ''Sunday'', ''Today'' and '' A Current Affair''. She has also been a news presenter on Sky News Australia. Education Dalley graduated from the University of Sydney with an Arts degree with Honours in French. Print media She began her career in the print media. In 1979 she began writing freelance articles, including feature stories on sport for the now-defunct weekly newspaper, the ''National Times''. A couple of years later she took a job with ''The Australian Women's Weekly'', and Australian Consolidated Press soon sent her to New York. She stayed there for two years, writing for the Weekly, ''Cleo'' and ''Australian Business''. While overseas, Dalley completed a brief, intensive business journalism course at Columbia University before returning to Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Kelly (journalist)
Paul John Kelly (born 11 October 1947) is an Australian political journalist, author and television and radio commentator from Sydney. He has worked in a variety of roles, principally for ''The Australian'' newspaper, and is currently its editor-at-large. Kelly also appears as a commentator on Sky News and has written seven books on political events in Australia since the 1970s including on the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. Recent works include, ''The March of Patriots'', which chronicles the creation of a modern Australia during the 1991–2007 era of Prime Ministers, Paul Keating and John Howard, and '' Triumph & Demise'' which focuses on the leadership tensions at the heart of the Rudd- Gillard Labor Governments of 2007–2011. Kelly presented the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) TV documentary series, ''100 Years – The Australian Story'' (2001) and wrote a book of the same title. In 2006, Kelly's work was described by fellow Australian journalists, Tob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Australian
''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition, ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.Bruns, Axel. "3.1. The active audience: Transforming journalism from gatekeeping to gatewatching." (2008). "''The Australian'' has long positioned itself as a loyal supporter of the incumbent government of Prime Minister John Howard, and is widely regarded as generally favouring the conservative side of politics." As the only Australian daily newspaper distributed nationally, its readership of both print and online editions was 2,394,000. Its editorial line has been self-described over time as centre-right. Parent companies ''The Australian'' is published by News Corp Australia, an asset of News Corp, which also owns the sole daily newspapers in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart, and Darwin, and the most circulated metropolitan daily newspapers in Sydney and Melbourne. News Corp's Chairman and Founder is Rupert Murdoch. ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Word (Australian TV Program) ''The Last Word'' is an Australian television news and commentary program, broadcast on Sky News Live. The program is hosted and moderated by David Speers, and features regular panellists Paul Murray, Janine Perrett and Laura Jayes Laura Jayes (born 24 December 1983) is an Australian journalist and television presenter. Jayes currently co-hosts ''First Edition'' and '' AM Agenda'' on Sky News Australia. Career Jayes joined Sky News in 2006 as a reporter, and in 2011 be .... The program sees the Sky News presenters discuss and debate news of the day, focusing primarily on political topics. Speers typically presents the program from the Parliament House studio in Canberra, while the remaining panellists are usually in the Sky News centre in Sydney. The format originated as the 20 minute final segment of '' PM Agenda'', which Speers hosts. In 2016 ''The Last Word'' broke out to become its own program, replacing the final 30 minutes of ''PM Agenda'', airing four-times week ... |
