Television in Australia

Is Australian casting diverse enough? Australia is a very diverse, multi-cultural nation with the majority of the population having migrated from Asia, Africa and Europe. Almost every single home in Australia has a television and almost every single Australian watches free-to-air television daily. Walking down the street, you are likely to encounter people of all colours and sexualities. Because of Australia’s incredible multi-culturalism and growing LGBTQIA community, you would expect to see the

In the 1970s, many international countries and continents such as Britain, America, Europe and Asia influenced Australia. Many categories in Australian culture were influences, for example, entertainment, music and sport. During the seventies, Australia changed and modified its culture. Entertainment and music changed significantly in the seventies and many countries contributed to what it became. The seventies were renowned for their disco music. It began in the mid-1970s with inspiration of American

Mrs. Bolton. For this PIP Proposal, my focus question is how does Australia claim to be a multicultural country but lacks the representation of people of colour in the media. Slide two- The reason I choose this topic is that I have realised that when watching television on channel 7, 9, and ten that there are zero people of colour present., According to SBS, Osman Faruqi says “Australia has a problem with diversity on television. If we don’t see people from culturally diverse backgrounds working

resources that people didn’t have in the past such as the television, national archives and the internet. The television was introduced to Australia on the 16th September 1956 (first broadcast ‘Good evening, and welcome to television.’). Televisions provide us with a visual account of events rather than primarily text. The Vietnam war was the first major conflict to be broadcasted on television. Images of casualties and deaths were shown on the televisions for people to see and historians believe that this

The fifth trend is “Internationalisation of Australia sports”. Television and media broadcasting has allowed sports played throughout the world to be broadcasted instantly to Australia Television. Currently in South Korea the Pyeong Chang 2018 Olympic Winter Games are being held, this major event is broadcasted instantly to every television in the world. Now that the media can broadcast popular sports all around the world, this gives the media more profit as more people are tuning in to watch. This

popular culture in the 1960s had multiple features, many of which were influenced by the social changes and counter culture at the time. The primary aspects of Australian popular culture in the 1960s were; music, fashion, film, sport and television. In Australia, the fashion of the 1960s emulated the political and cultural changes at the time. This fashion revolution was youth driven and showed their rejection of social standards. For women, the mini skirt came into trend, introduced by fashion icon

morning/afternoon Miss and peers. today ill be talking about "the changing nature of Australian television industry from 1950 until the year 2010." The Australian television has comparably changed since the years 1950-2010. Melbourne started Australian television temporarily in 1929. In 1955 Sydney and Melbourne were distributed licences. "Good evening and welcome to television." These few words is the birth of television which Bruce Gyngell, said in, Sydney, on the 16th of September 1956. In 1956 channel

ladies and gentlemen, my name is Tari Kao-Wong and today’s discussion is about whether or not Australian films describe the reality of Australian lives. Representations of families in Australian films and television programs are unrealistic. The films do not accurately represent life in Australia, the settings in Australian films are rundown and the people in the films are just insane. In the film Mental, there is a family of seven people, there are five daughters and a mother and a father. This

Is Australia becoming too Americanised? Americanisation is to make or become American in character. American culture is overriding the culture of our nation and will continue to as American aspects keep becoming larger within Australia. Over the past years Australia’s identity is being merged with America, as aspects like American foods/ brands, TV/film, trends and slang are becoming extremely popular and influencing Australian citizens. Through these common American aspects our Australian culture

their culture in a society. However, over time the growth of Australia's population has increase their culture in the country, yet the spectrum of persons in the media remains the same. Despite Australia having a multicultural policy that describe the "cultural and ethnic diversity of contemporary Australia". It is inefficient in the media, on a macro level. With the rise of media, there is a common trend with the persons in the industry being all Caucasian according to PWC recent report. This trend