7:30 Report
ABC TV's national flagship current affairs program.
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75 years of Australian Radio
At 8 o'clock on the 23rd November 1923, people in households across Sydney huddled expectantly around a new piece of equipment, the wireless, and tuned in to hear Miss Deering, Miss Druitt, Mr Thorp, Mr Pick, Mr Saunders and the St Andrews Choir perform 'The Swan' from Saint Saens' famous work The Carnival of the Animals, and create history. It was Australia's inaugural radio broadcast. Here are some of the many highlights from the 75 years of radio brought to you by 2BL.
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ABC Specials
One-off events, high profile lectures, and presentations of public interest. Most entries include transcripts and links to further information.
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Airplay: Radio National
Airplay is Radio National's weekly program of new Australian radio writing and performance. Airplay's half-hour dramatic fictions experiment with form and explore a wide range of subjects, genres and styles, aiming to offer programs which are innovative and engaging.
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Art in the National Gallery
Art in the National Gallery is a five-part series introducing students to some of the paintings in the National Gallery (London) collection, and developing visual literacy in general. It encourages critical thinking about the contexts for which the paintings were made.
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Australia Ad Lib
Welcome to Australia Ad Lib, an interactive guide to the wild, the weird and the vernacular in Australian Mid and upper secondaryic.
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Australia Talks Books
Site for the Radio National program. Discussions about topical books.
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Australian Story
Australian Story is a documentary style program produced as part of the ABC's current affairs output. The stories are 'narrated' by the subjects themselves; there is an emphasis on regional and rural Australia and on the positives of contemporary Australian life and Australian people.
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Australians Online
This online project is designed to create a space for Australians to reflect on what family and community means to them. It forms a part of the Centenary of Federation celebrations for 2001.
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Background Briefing
Background Briefing is Radio National's award-winning, agenda-setting radio documentary program. It provides in-depth investigation and analysis of a wide range of political, social, economic and cultural issues.
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Baroque On
Baroque On! is a music education project featuring the work of Handel, jointly produced by the ABC, Musica Viva In Schools, Florilegium and the British Council.
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BlackArts
A space is dedicated to showcasing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island People's exceptional talents in all the areas of art and culture.
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Book Talk
Book Talk provides a mix of reviews, critical discussion and a look at the latest developments in publishing.
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Books and Writing
Books and Writing is the foremost national literary program broadcast throughout Australia. It features in-depth discussions focusing on books, ideas and writing.
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Civics - The Common Good
The Common Good project is designed to enhance the teaching of civics and citizenship in the schools sector.
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Compass
Explores faith, belief and values in Australia and around the globe
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Correx Archive
A skeptical look at the paranormal, the wierd, and at shonky science
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Eight Days a Week
Eight Days a Week enters the world of small business -- the challenges, the successes and failures, the triumphs and traumas. This site presents to you some of the concepts, skills and tools which small business owners need today in able to cope successfully with the stimulating and sometimes stressful task of managing a small business. Comprehensive learning materials online have been developed to assist small-business owners and students alike. A training course database assists the user to go further in their skills building.
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Encounter
This highly-acclaimed series explores the connections between religion and life.
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Explore - Science Topics by Interest
Find your personal science obsession on this site or develop a few new ones. From ancient worlds to future ones and a few you only dare to imagine, Explore science online.
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Express
Australia's only national TV arts program.(archived, finished 1998)
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Finding Common Ground
This site examines the issues surrounding the draft document for Reconciliation which was released for nationwide discussion On June 2, 1999.
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First Person
Site for Radio National show featuring a selection of people reading their autobiographies.
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Foreign Correspondent
Journalism from all over the world.
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Four Corners
Australia's longest running current affairs program, since 1961. Investigative journalism at its very best.
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