Past Programs
Media, Information and Communication - 2008
World War One correspondents
25/09/2008
There were a number of Australian journalists who provided eye-witness accounts from the battlefields of the Great War, between 1914 and 1918. Among them was the writer Katherine Susannah Prichard who, while working as a journalist in Britain, was sent to France to report on the Australian hospitals set up to help the wounded on the Western Front.
Perhaps the best known Australian journalist in the Great War was Charles Edwin Woodrow (CEW) Bean. Appointed the offical correspondant to the AIF, Bean accompanied the troops at the landing at Gallipoli, and sent despatches back to the Australian press. He also reported and recorded accounts from the Western Front. Bean wrote the six-volume official history of the Australian involvement in the First World War.
Lester Bostock
11/09/2008
Lester Bostock is considered a founding father of the emergence of Indigenous media in Australia. He helped set up Radio Redfern, was involved in the creation of the first Indigenous theatre group, and was also the first Aboriginal presenter on SBS Radio.
Lester Bostock was born in 1934, and spent his childhood on the Box Ridge reserve in northern NSW. He went to school on the reserve, where his teacher was the untrained wife of the reserve manager. He left school at thirteen, and returned to education as an adult. Lester attended Tranby Aboriginal College in Sydney, and ended up teaching there himself.
