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Five decades of Australian music TV

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TAGGED: news

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The role of TV in breaking news

The late Victorian broadcaster, journalist and author Michael Schildberger recognised early in his career the role that TV could play in reporting news as it unfolded.

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A 3801 steam locomotive pulling a passenger train on a raised railway track above a grass embankment. The train is about to cross a railway bridge

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A Steam Train Passes

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A revolution in colour

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