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ABC announces new current affairs show, Australia Wide.

A new current affairs show, presented each week from a different state, to air on News 24 and ABC.

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ABC will launch a new weekly half hour current affairs program, Australia Wide, which tells “the stories from the people and places that make up the Australian experience.”

The show will be presented from a different state by a different host each week and premiere at 9:30pm AEDT Saturdays on ABC News 24 and be repeated Sunday mornings at 10:30am on ABC.

According to an ABC release:

From the city streets to the urban centres and beyond, our best reporters look behind the stories that make the news.

We look at things that affect us, from natural disasters and politics, to the things that inspire us in culture and the environment around us. It’s about where we live, the lives we lead and the things that challenge and unite us.

“The program will run four or five stories every week, each from a different state or territory” said Gaven Morris, ABC Head of News Content.

“They’ll come from the cities, regional centres, urban fringes and the bush and will traverse a range of topics.

“The stories may be from your postcode, but they will speak to us all.

“Our first episode is presented by Andrew O’Connor from Western Australia and features stories from his state, the Northern Territory, Tasmania and Victoria,” said Morris.

A preview of the first episode will run in place of Lateline on Good Friday on ABC News 24.

Episode One:

Housing (NT): The indigenous residents of Elliot, NT, have among the worst living conditions anywhere in Australia. The local council wants the territory and federal governments to take responsibility for housing here, but they have so far missed out on funding, and there’s little sign things will change.

Farmers (WA): Nearly a third of our largest state, Western Australia, is made up of pastoral leases. They will all expire in July, and the process of renewing those leases has been a fraught experience for many. We speak to one family from the Ningaloo region about their battle to hold onto the place they call home.

Ice Epidemic (TAS): Inside the ice epidemic. We meet one recovering addict, who tells her alarming story of life as a paramedic – while trying to manage her full blown addiction to crystal methamphetamine. From the ice hot spot of north western Tasmania.

Vinyl revival (VIC): More than 270 thousand vinyl records were sold in Australia – double the previous year. So what’s behind the vinyl revival? We meet one devotee who has put his money on a new era – starting his own pressing plant in Melbourne’s inner north.

Begins April 4th 9:30pm AEDT Saturday on ABC News 24.
10:30am Sundays on ABC

6 Responses

  1. I liked Bush Telegraph on Radio National at 11am every day. Fantastic information from all over Australia, and it went for a full hour every day.

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