Table of Contents

Foreword

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Glossary

Introduction

1 Australia's television culture

2 High communications policy in Australia

3 The rise and fall of entrepreneurial television, 1986-92

4 Television's double face: Of imported and local programming

5 Television and national culture

6 National television in the new cultural order

7 SBS-TV: Symbolic politics and multicultural policy in television provision (with Dona Kolar-Panov)

8 SBS-TV: A television service (with Dona Kolar-Panov)

9 An Aboriginal television culture: Issues, strategies, politics (with Philip Batty)

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Tom O'Regan is Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at Murdoch University and an editor of Continuum: the Australian journal of media and culture. He co-edited An Australian Film Reader and The Australian Screen, both with Albert Moran.

Reviews

'.a truly innovative book. The author ambitiously strives for a large-scale synthesis of policy, program analysis, history, politics, international influences and the Australian television system's place in the world.' - Associate Professor Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology