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The Boyer Collection: Highlights of the Boyer lectures 1959–2000 edited by Donald McDonald

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October 2001, no. 235
Andrew Riemer reviews 'The Boyer Collection: Highlights of the Boyer lectures 1959–2000' by Donald McDonald (ed.)

This handsomely produced anthology reflects much that is admirable about the ABC, and indicates the vital role an independent public broadcasting organisation may play in a mature and civilised society. Sad to say, it also exemplifies the current state of the corporation.

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Four Corners: Twenty-five years by Robert Pullan

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February–March 1987, no. 88
Albert Moran reviews 'Four Corners: Twenty-five years' by Robert Pullan

When Four Corners began on ABC television in 1961 there was little to break what Humphrey McQueen, following Manning Clark, has called the ‘Great Australian Silence’. True, the Sydney fortnightly magazine Nation had started in 1958; but there was little else to offer a toughminded or oppositional outlook on the orthodoxies and consensus that was Australia. So Four Corners was badly needed. In turn it and Nation were joined by others: Oz magazine and the televised Mavis Bramston Show in 1963; The Australian in 1964 and This Day Tonight.

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