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Abstract This article explores the news management practices of the first Rudd government (2007-2010) and the extent to which they were responsible for both the government's initial success and its [...]

This article contextualises the rise of political spin in Australian politics and discusses its meaning and implications. It examines the largely unmediated relationship between political leaders and journalists that existed until the 1970s. It locates the foundational period in the growth of professionalised public relations in the Fraser and Hawke governments and suggests that an assertive new style of journalism played a role in its birth. It debates some of the literature on spin, and suggests that spin is a permanent fixture and that journalists need to devise creative responses to it rather than simply denounce it., It is hard to imagine from today's perspective that political leaders, governments and parties in Australia once operated without a retinue of professional media advisers designed to manage the news [...]

Sony Vegas Pro 10.0d was announced at NAB in April, and it includes some great new features that will benefit professional videographers and filmmakers doing wedding, event, and corporate work. [...]

Sony Vegas Pro 10 is here! After months of speculation about what would be in the latest full-step upgrade to Sony Creative Software's popular pro NLE, the new version has [...]

recently, Sony Creative Software released updates to its consumer line of media products, including Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 10. This month we're going to look at some of the [...]

This month I'm going in a little different direction from my usual Sony Vegas Tips & Tricks columns. Since most Vegas users work with the companion DVD Architect program to [...]

a recent email blast for a new Sony camcorder loudly proclaims: 'A new year. A new format.' It sometimes feels that way, doesn't it? For prosumer video camera codecs, the [...]

No doubt, online video is huge these days. Whether you upload video to YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook or host it on your own blog or website, at some point you […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] By the time you read this, Vegas Pro 9 will be readily available for download and purchase. As I write this, it's shortly after NAB, where version 9 […]

Welcome to our latest tutorial on Sony Vegas! This month's topic is audio. But before we get into dealing with audio in postproduction, allow me to get on my soapbox […]

NewBlueFX is located in La Jolla, Calif., and has been in operation since 2001. The company produces an exhaustive array of audio and video effects, transitions, and filters that operate […]

Welcome to this month's tutorial on Sony Vegas! In this installment I will extend the discussion of color correction techniques we began in the November issue by touching on using […]

Welcome to Sony Vegas tips and tricks! This tutorial will be the first in a series of Vegas tutorials I'll be contributing over the next several months. Here's a quick […]

During the Cold War in Australia, the political agenda was dominated by the threat of communism. One factor in building this agenda was the 'counter-propaganda operations' of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) which regularly released unattributable information to selected mass media outlets. In the period when these activities were most prevalent (1960-72), ASIO officers had regular contact with editors and with selected journalists on major newspapers and television. This formed part of a broader 'cultural Cold War' in which anticommunism was an organising principle. This article outlines new information on these activities, suggests that these operations were more extensive than previously thought, and discusses this relationship in terms of the scholarly work on media sources, government-sponsored intervention in the media and classical theories of propaganda. It suggests that one way to understand the controversial media role in counter-propaganda operations lies in the relationship between police and crime reporters.

This article examines whether, and in what way, anti-communism was a factor in the slow development of an Australian film industry in the 1950s and early 1960s and in the kind of film culture developed in Australia, particularly through film festivals. In particular it examines the activities of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) towards left and liberal filmmakers and film lovers. It briefly examines the effect of anti-communism on the struggle for Australian content by Actors' Equity in the early years of television.

Were the ASIO raids on the homes of various Australian residents late last year justified? To any self-respecting leftists the answer is instant. Of course not. How could it possibly [...]

Byline: David C. McKnight The more IUL sales grow, the more its critics seem to froth at the mouth. Having surveyed a few of the more egregious IUL hit pieces [...]

Vegas Pro 11 was announced at IBC in September and is an exciting and much-anticipated upgrade to the cornerstone in Sony Creative Software's (SCS) media production line. It is available [...]

as the kiddos head back to school and temperatures start to break from triple-digit highs, it's obvious that fall is here. Another clue is that Sony Creative Software has announced [...]

This brings up a good point: There are some filters in BCC (not many) that perform similar functions to those found natively in Vegas. In all that I've looked at [...]

recently, a new software utility called PluralEyes has popped up for users of Apple's Final Cut Pro and Sony Vegas Pro. PluralEyes, from Singular Software (http://singularsoftware.com), is designed to synchronize [...]

In November, we began our two-part series on my favorite Sony Vegas tips and tricks with six tips designed to enhance your workflow and increase your productivity. Here's the second […]

Over the next 2 months, I'd like to offer a few tips I've picked up for using Sony Vegas. They may not be immediately apparent if you use Vegas, but […]

This month, I want to continue our series of Sony Vegas tutorials with some additional audio tips plus information on compression, the audio utilities found in UltimateS Pro (US Pro), […]

One of the enduring puzzles of the political response to climate change is the polite behaviour of those who are most aware of the impending problems. For many years activists [...]

Robert Wright, The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are, London, Abacus, 1996. On my refrigerator is a postcard from Leeds. The illustration shows a bespectacled intellectual, scratching [...]

Peter Singer, A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution and Cooperation, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999. On my refrigerator is a postcard from Leeds. The illustration shows a bespectacled intellectual, scratching his [...]

Kenan Malik, Man, Beast and Zombie: What Science Can and Cannot Tell us About Human Nature, London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2000. On my refrigerator is a postcard from Leeds. The [...]

Christopher Boehm, Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behaviour, Cambridge (Mass), Harvard University Press, 1999. On my refrigerator is a postcard from Leeds. The illustration shows a bespectacled [...]

This article discusses journalism as a form of `vernacular literature' and explores two traditions of reporting: the objective and the interpretive. In the first, emphasis is placed on the fact; in the second, on the story. In these terms, the article examines the transformation of the reporting style of the Sydney Morning Herald from objective reporting to interpretive reporting in the early 1980s. It examines the Herald's journalism from the 1950s to the 1970s as an exemplar of the objective style. It also comments on the linkage between these styles and differing rationales about the purpose of journalism in terms of market values and non-market values.

When the sponsors of the Ben Chifley Memorial Lecture invited Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson to deliver the `Light on the Hill' address in Bathurst, they probably didn't expect him to [...]

When most of us started as editors, we likely substituted cheesy video effects for content and creativity. Some of us may have even chosen our NLE based on the number [...]

So there we were, my wife, Christie, and I, reading a familiar email: 'Can you send me your packages for a wedding? We are on a budget.' Sigh. 'So am [...]

More often than not, questions of access to health care rest on the availability of health care professionals. In recent weeks, our colleagues and medical students have expressed deep concern [...]