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rd of the Library’s directions. They reflect the Library’s understanding of the current and likely 3 year context in the information and cultural spheres. We expect many more Australians to have access to fast broadband by 2015. We expect that a large proportion or even a majority will be using mobile devices to access content. We expect users to be able to choose from an ever-growing array of online content, and will therefore focus on what we, uniquely, can do, including digitising Australian content, and making freely available digital Australiana more discoverable.
We expect a new Australian Government Cultural Policy to be launched, and that it will extend beyond the performing and creative arts and into the areas of how Australians can access, use and interact with their documentary heritage. We support the Australian Government’s focus on inclusion, especially ensuring that rural and regional Australians have access to the information and opportunities they
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Australia s black summer of bushfires was depicted on the front pages of the world s media with images of wildlife and habitat destruction, caused by climate change, while in Australia the toll on ordinary people remained the visual front-page focus.
QUT visual communication researcher Dr TJ Thomson compared the front-page bushfire imagery of the Sydney Morning Herald over three months from November 10, 2019 to January 31 2020 with 119 front pages from international media from the start of January, when the world sat up and took notice, to January 31. The international sample of front pages included the Americas and Europe (about 90 per cent) representing Australia s black summer . Asia represented around 7 per cent of the international sample and Oceania, excluding Australia, represented 3.3 percent of the sample.
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Worth 1000 words: how world saw Australia’s black summer & how we did
Australia’s ‘black summer’ of bushfires was depicted on the front pages of the world’s media with images of wildlife and habitat destruction, caused by climate change, while in Australia the toll on ordinary people remained the visual front-page focus.
Visual communication analysis of bushfire related front-page images in Sydney Morning Herald over three months and 119 overseas media outlets’ front pages on the megafires.
International media imagery portrayed our ‘black summer’ as an environmental and ecological apocalypse
In Australia, front-page images were dominated by the megafires’ effect on people particularly firefighters.
Don t eat too much. Don t drink too much.
And don t talk politics.
My family Xmas bun-fight kicks off this arvo so must remember to heed my own advice.
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Given it s the year that China asserted full control of Hong Kong (23 years into a 50 year agreement), a little focus on the Baluchistan area of Pakistan.
It s become an economic zone (it has natural respurces for export), one handed off to China for exploitation. Now a port is Chinese controlled and is being fenced off from the wider region. A bit like Hong Kong in its 1897-1997 phase.
Formerly the Pakistan government kidnapped local nationalists. Now in Sweden and a few days ago in Canada Baluchi nationalists in exile have drowned.