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Insiders (Australian TV Program)
''Insiders'' is an Australian news and talk television program produced by ABC News, and hosted by David Speers. History The program debuted on 15 July 2001, hosted by Barrie Cassidy until June 2019. Similar to the Sunday morning talk shows in the United States, ''Insiders'' analyses and discusses Australian politics with the use of a panel of political journalists and columnists and interviews with prominent politicians and commentators. Broadcast on ABC on Sunday mornings at 9am, the program also features many regular commentators from various Australian media outlets and think tanks. The show is part of the ABC's Sunday morning line-up, commencing with ''Insiders'', followed by ''Offsiders'', a sports program initiated and formerly hosted by Cassidy, and now hosted by Kelli Underwood. Fran Kelly hosted the show while Barrie Cassidy was on long service leave, and Chris Uhlmann, prior to his move to the Nine Network, also hosted the show in Cassidy's absence. In March 2019, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Speers
David Gordon Speers (born 9 September 1974 in Inverell, Australia) is an Australian journalist and host of '' Insiders'' on ABC TV. Previously he was political editor at Sky News Australia, as well as host of ''PM Agenda'', '' The Last Word'' and '' Speers Tonight''. Career Speers began his career in Geelong, Victoria in the newsroom of radio station K-Rock. Speers then worked at 2GB, 2UE and 3AW. He has been a member of the National Press Club board since 2005 and is currently a director. Sky News In 2000, Speers joined Sky News as a political editor. During his time with Sky News, Speers hosted the channel's flagship ''PM Agenda'' program Monday to Thursday afternoons. Additionally, he presented political updates and conducts interviews throughout the day on the 24-hour news channel. He also previously commuted from his home in Canberra once a week to Sky News' primary studios in Sydney to host primetime program '' The Nation with David Speers'' before the program en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mashup (video)
A video mashup (also written as video mash-up) combines multiple pre-existing video sources with no discernible relation with each other into a unified video. These are derivative works as defined by the United States Copyright Act , and as such, may find protection from copycopyright claims under the doctrine of fair use. Examples of mashup videos include movie trailer remixes, Vidding, vids, YouTube Poop, and supercuts. Music videos * The first type is a derivative music video, which is the most common one, by recombining two or more pre–existing materials together into a new one. These materials usually are prevailing music videos, but also includes separate songs, videos, and still images. According to Navas, it can be a regressive type, for its promotional purpose. * The second type is slightly different from the first. It allows the users record their own track – either sung or played on an instrument – and then combine it with other tracks from internet together. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian Australia
''Guardian Australia'' is the Australian website of the British global online and print newspaper, ''The Guardian''. Available solely in an online format, the newspaper's launch was led by Katharine Viner in time for the 2013 Australian federal election and followed the introduction of ''Guardian US'' in 2011. ''Guardian Australia'' is owned by Guardian Media Group, which is in turn owned by the Scott Trust, which aims to stay independent and free from 'commercial pressures'. The online publication relies on digital advertising and voluntary reader donations or subscriptions for revenue, eschewing enforced paywalls implemented by other news websites. ''Guardian Australias headquarters is based in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, with bureaux in Brisbane, Melbourne and Canberra. It employs more than 70 journalists, editors and other personnel as of 2020, including editor-in-chief Lenore Taylor who assumed responsibilities in 2016. History Prior to its 2013 launch the Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Courier-Mail
''The Courier-Mail'' is an Australian newspaper published in Brisbane. Owned by News Corp Australia, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, Queensland, Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner northern suburbs, and it is printed at Murarrie, Queensland, Murarrie, in Brisbane's eastern suburbs. It is available for purchase throughout Queensland, most regions of Northern New South Wales and parts of the Northern Territory. History The history of ''The Courier-Mail'' is through four Nameplate (publishing), mastheads. The ''Moreton Bay Courier'' later became ''The Courier (Brisbane), The Courier'', then the ''Brisbane Courier'' and, since a merger with the Daily Mail in 1933, ''The Courier-Mail''. The ''Moreton Bay Courier'' was established as a weekly paper in June 1846. Issue frequency increased steadily to bi-weekly in January 1858, tri-weekly in December 1859, then daily under the ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Atkins (journalist)
Dennis Atkins is a journalist based in Brisbane, Australia. Atkins has worked for a number of media outlets, including Melbourne's ''News-Sun Pictorial'' and Brisbane's ''Courier-Mail''. He worked in the Canberra press gallery in the 1980s and from 2000 to 2005, the latter period as national political editor for ''The Courier-Mail''. In 1993, as chief media adviser to Labor Party Premier Wayne Goss, Atkins became embroiled in the Cape Melville affair, though a Criminal Justice Commission investigation later cleared him of wrongdoing. Atkins was national affairs editor at ''The Courier-Mail'' until July 2019 and has been a regular panelist on '' Insiders'', a panel discussion program on ABC Television. He is currently a freelance writer and critic based in Brisbane, and co-host of the podcast Two Grumpy Hacks with Malcolm Farr Malcolm Farr (born 2 August 1951 ) is a political journalist in the Canberra Press Gallery covering the Parliament of Australia in Canberra, Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Leahy
Sean Leahy (born 1958) is an Australian cartoonist working for the '' Courier Mail'' in Brisbane, Australia. He draws political cartoons for the paper, and also his own comic strip, ''Beyond the Black Stump'', which is distributed in Australia. Background In 1974, Sean Leahy began his cartooning career on the suburban weekly ''The Darling Advertiser'' while still in high school. One year later, his cartoons became a twice weekly feature of ''The West Australian'', making him, at 17, the youngest political cartoonist in Australia at a metropolitan daily. Leahy was awarded a QE II Jubilee Trust Award to study animation in the United States in 1982. When he was there, he spent time at Mike Jones Film Corporation in Minneapolis before returning to Perth. In 1983, he left ''The West Australian'' and joined ''The Daily Sun'', then in 1985 ''The Courier-Mail'' in Brisbane. ''Beyond The Black Stump'' Beginning in 1988, Leahy started the nationally syndicated comic strip ''Beyond The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Kudelka
Jon Kudelka (born 1972) is an Australian editorial cartoonist. His work has regularly appeared in ''The Australian'', ''The Mercury'' and ''The Saturday Paper''. Kudelka was born in Burnie, Tasmania and obtained a Bachelor of Science from the University of Tasmania. In 2008, he won the Stanley Award for best editorial/political cartoonist, as well as the Walkley Award for best cartoon. In 2018 he won a second Walkley for a cartoon about Uluru, while in 2019 he won the Vince O’Farrell Award for Outstanding Cartoon at the Kennedy Awards The Kennedy Awards, also known as the NRMA Kennedy Awards, are Australian awards for journalism based in Sydney, New South Wales, run by the Kennedy Foundation, and named in honour of Indigenous Australian journalist Les Kennedy, who died in .... References External links * Living people Walkley Award winners Australian editorial cartoonists 1972 births People from Burnie, Tasmania University of Tasmania alumni {{Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Knight
Mark Knight (born 1962) is an Australian cartoonist. He is currently the editorial cartoonist for the '' Herald Sun'', a daily tabloid newspaper in Melbourne. Knight was also the last editorial cartoonist for one of the ''Herald Sun'''s joint predecessor newspapers, the afternoon broadsheet '' The Herald''. Childhood Born in Marrickville, Sydney, Knight grew up in Lakemba, attended Wiley Park Primary School and then Narwee Boys' High School. He showed an early interest in drawing which was encouraged by his artistic father. Knight's first cartoons were of his family and their idiosyncrasies, drawn at family gatherings. When he was six years old, Knight's father bought him Paul Rigby's cartoon annual of 1967; Rigby's work influence his artwork for many years. He created scrapbooks of Rigby's cartoons cut from ''The Daily Telegraph'', and studied and imitated them while developing his cartooning style. Knight started a cadetship in 1980 in the Fairfax art department, fillin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Nicholson (cartoonist)
Peter Nicholson (born 1946) is an Australian political cartoonist, caricaturist and sculptor. He has won five Walkley Awards. Nicholson has also produced animated political cartoons for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the TV series ''Fast Forward'', and was involved in the Rubbery Figures television series. He married Mary Nicholson in 1972 and had three children. Tom Nicholson, Emily Nicholson and Dan Nicholson. Walkley awards "Avenue of Prime Ministers" in the Botanical Gardens in Ballarat Nicholson created the busts of Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, John Howard, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, which are part of the Prime Ministers Avenue in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Moir
Alan Moir (born 1947) is an Australian caricaturist and cartoonist who was born in New Zealand. He has been the Editorial Cartoonist for the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' since 1984, and previously ''The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin'' and Brisbane's ''Courier-Mail''. His work on international events is also syndicated regularly through The New York Times Syndicate. Alan's credits include being six-time winner of "Australian Editorial Cartoonist of the Year", a Churchill Fellowship in 1999, Walkley award for Political Cartooning in 2000 and 2006 and the UN Award for Political Cartooning 1994. He also won the Gold Stanley award in 1985. Inducted into "The Australian Cartoonists' Hall of Fame" 2018. In 2019 a cartoon on global warming was published in "The Oxford Illustrated History of the World" His work is held in several collections including the National Library of Australia, the National Museum of Australia, the National Library of New Zealand, the State Library ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Petty
Bruce Leslie Petty, born 23 November 1929 at Doncaster, Victoria, Doncaster, a suburb of Melbourne, is one of Australia's best known political satire, political satirists and cartoonists.Bruce Petty Profile , The Age, accessed 13 September 2008 He is a regular contributor to Melbourne's ''The Age'' newspaper. His intricate images have been described as "doodle-bombs" for their free-association of links between various ideas, people and institutions. ''Age'' journalist Martin Flanagan (journalist), Martin Flanagan wrote that Petty "re-invented the world as a vast scribbly machine with interlocking cogs and levers that connected people in wholly logical but unlikely ways." Work Petty began working for the Owen Brothers animation studio in Melbourne in 1949, before moving to the Uni ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Pryor
Geoffrey Pryor (born 1944 in Canberra) is a retired Australian political cartoonist. He was the editorial cartoonist for ''The Canberra Times'' newspaper between 1978 and 2008. During this 30-year career, Pryor generally drew seven cartoons per week for the newspaper. Pryor's style was influenced by his predecessor at ''The Canberra Times'', Larry Pickering. His graphic style is ornate, much more detailed and portrait-like than that of such contemporaries as Patrick Cook. He was cartoonist for ''The Saturday Paper ''The Saturday Paper'' is an Australian weekly newspaper, launched on 1 March 2014 in hard copy, as an online newspaper and in mobile news format. The paper is circulated throughout Australian capital cities and major regional centres. Since ...'' until his "second retirement" in December 2018. Reference sources Portrait of Geoff Pryor, cartoonistby Virginia Wallace-Crabbe, 1997 Interview with Geoff Pryor, cartoonist(sound recording) interviewed by Ann Turner, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
