News and current affairs
Key news and current affairs databases
- TVNews (Informit)
Stream and download video of Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks. Note: Coverage 2007 to present.
- Access World News
Australian and international newspapers and other news content provided by NewsBank. Updated daily. Includes Australian Financial Review, The Australian, Courier Mail.
- Gale Primary Sources
Provides access to a range of primary sources. Can be used with Gale's Digital Scholar Lab for text analysis and more.
- Trove
Digital collection of Australian information including newspapers, governement gazettes, maps, magazines, newsletters, books, pictures, photographs, archived websites, music, diaries, letters, personal archives and inteviews.
- Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus (EBSCOhost)
Provides full text for leading Australian and New Zealand magazines, newspapers and newswires.
- Alternative Press Index Archive (EBSCOhost)
Covers theories and practices of socialism and revolution alongside ecology, democracy and anarchism, feminism and organized labor, indigenous peoples and gays/lesbians, coverage is both international and interdisciplinary.
- PressReader
Access local, regional and international newspapers and magazines from over 100 countries in 60 languages.
Find news broadcasts
Recent television and radio broadcasts are usually freely available from the broadcaster's web site, or as podcasts via iTunes.
Older broadcasts are rarely freely available. If you are looking for news from the last few months, or years, you will need to use a news and current affairs database.
- TVNews (Informit)
Stream and download video of Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks. Note: Coverage 2007 to present.
