Welcome to our News Email - Checking the Pulse - providing you with useful and informative ABC Friends News bites. Below you will find links to interesting reads/webinars, online events coming up and ABC TV productions you may enjoy.
Informative Reads
2 excellent National Press Club Addresses held during the last fortnight
Dates to put in your Diary
- Sydney Writers’ Festival - Sat 26th April to 2 May 2021.
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Where would we be without our ABC? Checkout the upcoming Sydney Writers’ Festival programme here.
The very interesting sessions are heavily populated with ABC journalists and presenters - current or retired. It just goes to show how important our ABC is to the national debate and production of Australian stories.
Sydney Writers’ Festival will stream its headline events from Carriageworks in Sydney direct to selected libraries around Australia including Burnside Library in Adelaide. Burnside Library’s specific programme will be released shortly highlighting which events will be available for viewing at the Library and which events will be live streamed via Zoom for viewing at home.
Interesting ABC Programmes to catch up on
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250 years after Captain James Cook began his epic exploration of the Pacific, Sam Neill journeys in his wake uncovering stories that resonate from those times on both sides of the beach. Watching The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill on iView here.
On behalf of your 2020-2021 Committee
Sue Pinnock - President
Sandra Coopman - Secretary
Mihir Makwana - Treasurer
Roselie Copley, Andrew Johnston and Tina Phillips - Committee Members