Cirrus@Austlit

'What traces did Australian radio and television audiences leave when their listening and viewing was over? Today, registered users of audio and video streaming services make indelible digital imprints everywhere they go. Earlier listeners and viewers of ephemeral broadcast signals did not. Audience research arose to quantify and understand their behaviour. Bridget Griffen-Foley has gone looking for evidence about that behaviour in unusual places.'  (Introduction)

'Is Gareth Evans’s “incorrigible optimism” evidence-based?'

'It was not a hunch that made Bernard O'Reilly set off into the rainforest in the early afternoon of Saturday 27 February 1937, eight days after an Airlines of Australia Stinson aircraft went missing on a flight to Sydney from Brisbane's Archerfield Aerodrome. A believer, he was comfortable with the possibility that he had been chosen for the mission. Having 'spent most of his life in unwittingly fitting himself out for such a job', O'Reilly thought it 'quite natural' to find inspired within him 'the reasoning and initiative which would send that man out on his own accord', a sign that there was 'a clear purpose behind it all'.' (Introduction)

'Three police shows axed in just one year. For some observers, it seemed like much more than a coincidence, writes Jock Given'

'By the end of the year, Australia’s cinema industry will no longer be a film industry. Jock Given looks at what this means for storytelling on the big screen'

'Are we so impressed by the power of collaboration that we’ve come to overvalue working in groups, asks Jock Given' 

'The prime minister was angry. So what did he say? asks Jock Given'