Focus on the media
Focus on the media
Media reports on current and sometimes controversial events often do not reflect the breadth of perspectives on a particular issue. Use the student checklist (pdf) to critically analyse media reports.
Media Archive
- Boat arrivals are a drop in the ocean
The Age Rachel Ball 7/06/10 - Innocence lost as recruitment of children continues
The Sydney Morning Herald Opinion Steven Freeland 15/02/10 - Focus on the Human Factor The Age Opinion
Sujatha Singh, India's high commissioner to Australia. 10/02/10 - Sarkoz's state of the nation dress: no burqas, please
The Sydney Morning Herald Paola Totaro 24/06/09 - Racist bullying rife in (British) schools
The Times Educational Supplement Adi Bloom 24/04/09 - Africans face 'racist abuse'
The Sydney morning Herald Jewel Topsfield 17/03/09 - 100th Anniversary of the NAACP
U.S. Department of Education Press Release 12/02/09 - When MySpace ends in tears
Fairfax Digital, The Age Calliste Weitenberg 1/02/08 - Refugees scared of citizenship test
http://ninemsn.com.au/ 29/04/08 - Don't touch people without permission, Uk immigrants to be told
www.expressindia.com 05/02/08 - Islam and its Catholic connection
The Sydney Morning Herald Opinion Peter Manning 04/05/07 - Media must take responsibility for perceptions they help shape
Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission media release 13/04/07 - Veils and Vegemite
The Sydney Morning Herald Good Weekend 17/02/07 - No prizes for playing second fiddle to the school grunts
The Sydney Morning Herald 31/01/07 - ABC gets stricter editorial guidelines
The Sydney Morning Herald 16/10/06 - William Deane blasts citizenship test
The Sydney Morning Herald 8/10/06 - More Than a Cease-Fire Needed
The New York Times 21/07/06 - Prejudice in any form shames us
The Sun-Herald 18/6/06 - Australia's World XI
The Sydney Morning Herald 1/6/06 - Geoffrey Lee & Bilel Jideh
The Sydney Morning Herald Good Weekend 6/5/05 - How schools deal with racism
BBC News 6/4/2006 - Digital Divide Closing as Blacks Turn to Internet
The New York Times 31/3/2006 - Students request the due respect
St George and Sutherland Shire Leader 2/3/2006 - Zambia's Plight Goes Begging in Year of Disasters
The New York Times 23/2/2006 - Refugees wait for 20 years
The Australian 20/1/2006 - Explosion in the suburbs
The Guardian 7/11/2005 - Rosa Parks, Founding Symbol of US Civil Rights Movement, Dies
The New York Times 25/10/2005 - Outrage at Asian Parking Slur
The Sydney Morning Herald 7/10/2005 - Racism hits Koori students' work hopes
The Age 19/9/2005 - AFL crowns indigenous team of the century
The Age 1/8/2005 - Just who is un-Australian?
The Age 20/6/2005 - Vietnamese Australians sing Fraser's praises
The Age 6/6/2005 - New Mayor Talks His Way Across Los Angeles's Divides
The New York Times 30/5/2005 - Honour migrant achievers: Pratt
The Australian 16/5/2005 - Terrorism: what they've said
Bulletin 11/5/2005
