News and Current Affairs

'What are you thinking?': Waleed Aly's plea to young people on The Project

Georgina Mitchell Waleed Aly spoke directly to young Australians on The Project on Monday night.

Karl Stefanovic calls out Peter Dutton for 'un-Australian' comments on refugees

EBONY BOWDEN In one of his strongest editorials to date, Today co-host Karl Stefanovic has called on Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to apologise.

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Q&A; recap: British rapper Kate Tempest steals the show after Duncan Storrar saga

Neil McMahon For the second week running, television's prime lightning rod was hit by a bolt from the blue on Monday night.

Andrew Bolt's The Bolt Report finds little love on Sky, averages 23,000 viewers

EBONY BOWDEN His nightly talk show sheds 85 per cent of its audience since moving from Ten to Sky.

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Finding a place for local TV news bulletin could be tricky for WIN

Glen Humphries Sunday night's Logie awards could have created more problems for WIN when it comes to its local news bulletins.

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Peta Credlin laments and gushes in first Sky News outing with Andrew Bolt

Neil McMahon Credlin has all the fundamentals in place for a commanding screen turn but she remains a stranger.

The Project

The Project's Carrie Bickmore blasts Malcolm Turnbull for ignoring working parents

EBONY BOWDEN Carrie Bickmore has lashed the government for ignoring working families in a scathing segment on Monday night's episode of The Project.

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Future unclear for WIN's nightly local news bulletins

JAMES JOYCE But management assures staff plans are under way for a new program supply agreement to keep the regional broadcaster on the air.

60 Minutes reveals unseen Beaconsfield mine disaster footage

PETER VINCENT Nine's embattled 60 Minutes program has marked 10 years since the disaster.

60 Minutes crew jailed in Lebanon deserve sympathy, says ABC's Phil Williams

Neil McMahon "You just get hardwired to that call in the middle of the night", says ABC veteran foreign correspondent Philip Williams

60 Minutes crisis: Nine bats away 'child stealing' jibe, stays mum on lawyer's claim it paid for abductions

MICHAEL LALLO Desperate family members of the 60 Minutes team held in Beirut have confronted Channel Nine executives as the child snatching drama enters its second week, amid claims that the network indirectly funded the botched child snatching attempt.

Kerri-Anne Kennerley on Sunday Night: tell-all rakes in nearly 450,000 extra viewers

Neil McMahon Having paid a reported $350000 for the exclusive, the network would seem to have got its money's worth.

Punishment for Australians won't be 'extreme' in 60 Minutes child snatch case: Lebanese police source

Yaara Bou Melhem and David Wroe The five Australians including a 60 Minutes crew being held in Beirut over a botched child recovery operation are unlikely to receive "extreme" punishment, a police source in Lebanon has said

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What was 60 Minutes doing in Lebanon?

MICHAEL LALLO If the Lebanese authorities' explosive claims are correct, they raise serious legal and ethical questions for 60 Minutes.

ABC radio restructure condemned by senior broadcasters

Martin Boulton Senior ABC broadcasters have condemned plans to introduce a new level of management as part of a restructure merging the national broadcaster's five radio networks.

Chris Bath test drives radio with 702 guest role and confirms TV news talks

MICHAEL IDATO Former television news presenter Chris Bath is returning to radio, the medium in which she launched her career three decades ago.

Q&A; recap: Christopher Pyne hums a flat Adelaide show to life

Neil McMahon Christopher Pyne - bomb-thrower, brat, bon vivant and ABBA fan, take your pick - is so many different things to different people that he is in a way Q&A;'s perfect guest, even if some viewers are only there to hate-watch.

Waleed Aly

Waleed Aly questions why begging is illegal on The Project

DANIELLA MILETIC 'Maybe the reason we are punishing the homeless for begging us to help isn't because we object to taking some coins out of our pocket. Maybe our real objection is the guilt we are forced to carry away with us when their poverty is rubbed in our face.'

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Q&A; sizzles with celebration of science but grim cloud hangs over proceedings

Neil McMahon Theories abounded on a special science edition of Q&A;, from Einstein's old high-stakes hunches to more recent propositions and pre-occupations. But there was one hypothesis that didn't get a look in, so we are pleased to share it with you here.

Louis Theroux announces first Australian speaking tour

KYLIE NORTHOVER British documentary maker Louis Theroux is set to make his first ever Australian appearance in September.

Shane Warne labels Waleed Aly 'arrogant' after The Project interview

NICK GALVIN A seriously cranky Shane Warne has apparently labeled Waleed Aly "arrogant", "smug" and "a dick" after the journalist questioned the former international cricketer about his charity foundation.

Q&A;'s annus horribilis has a silver lining, says executive producer Peter McEvoy

Neil McMahon After enduring the year from television hell, was Q&A; entering 2016 in need of a hug?

ABC Radio's John Logan set to retire

NICK GALVIN Veteran ABC radio personality John Logan, whose instantly recognisable tones have been the voice of the news for NSW listeners for the past 20 years, has retired.

Sunday Night review: Martin Bryant – inside the mind of a monster

Neil McMahon It's many years passed since Martin Bryant first traumatised our TV screens on a Sunday night, but 20 years and more than a thousand Sunday nights later, we were invited to ponder the man again.