To keep
abreast of current affairs consult:
(a) Newspapers
http://www.kidon.com/media-link/australia.shtml
A full list of all Australian newspapers online is available
at http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/npapers.html
A listing of over 1,000 Australian electronic journals, magazines,
webzines, e-mail fanzines, etc., including overseas works with Australia
content, authorship and/or emphasis, is available at http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/ausejour.html
The
online
articles and its "specials" at http://www.smh.com.au.
Online articles in The Australian and all other Fairfax newspapers
at http://www.news.com.au/
This is a most useful source as you can access very rapidly one of
the following sublinks: Page One, World, National, NSW, VIC, QLD,
TAS, SA, WA, Business, Rural, Education, Cartoon, Our Newspapers.
(Melbourne): http://www.theage.com.au
The Sydney Morning Herald: http://www.smh.com.au
The Australian: http://www.news.com.au
The Green Left Weekly http://www.greenleft.org.au/
(a radical publication)
(b) Daily news summaries
http://www.oznetwork.com.au/oznetwork/news
gives daily summaries of front-page articles from the major national
news publications : "great way to stay up to date on the news."
http://www.onlineaustralia.net.au
("Events, Themes, Resources, News")
(c) Radio news
ABC News Online: http://abc.net.au/news,
audio and video available.
Radio Australia: http://www.wrn.org/ondemand/
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): http://www.abc.net.au
(d) Chronologies, Transcripts, etc.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the national
radio and television network, is a mine of information about all things
Australian: http://abc.net.au/surf/sitelst.htm