I want to make a particular case for the soap opera that often does not have the same kind of artistic legitimacy as other media forms, and thus enters popular discourse via low brow appreciation. By having such a broad-based appeal, the soap opera in Australia can have unusual power to transform entrenched bias against those who are perceived to be outsiders to the dominant white settler narrative within the nation.
Changing Landscape
The Heights. Australia’s home-grown gem, it should rightly alter the
Home and Away face of an Australia consumed the world over and replace it with what contemporary