My sister, Madeline, is a photographer.. Check out her work : http://www.madelinekate.com.au/

I love it!

UP TO 70% OFF SALE ON ASOS ! I have the urge to forget that I am in a money drought!

http://www.asos.com/Women/Sale/Cat/pgehtml.aspx?cid=7046&WT.ac=WWNav_Sale

There is currently an enquiry in the House of Reps into two bills, both which will would amend the marriage act to allow same-sex marriage. This little survey only takes a minute and every little bit of support helps!


http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=spla%2Fbill+marriage%2Findex.htm&t=dXNlcmlkPTMxNDg4MixlbWFpbGlkPTcwMg%3D%3D

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Free concert with Temper Trap and Matt Corby, yes please! Thankyou JJJ!

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/musicnews/s3459350.htm

Amazing

The reason I have chosen to study journalism is the opportunity to travel. I love travelling and meeting new people, exploring new places. Doing study beyond secondary school was always in my plan, however the closer it came to accepting my offer, the more I wanted to leave it for travel. I have all my travel books read and marked, although I know that after I finish my studies the more prospect of more adventures will be likely. Top adventures that are to be had next in:

Santorini, Greece

Maldive Islands

Switzerland (I love the snow!)

Southern France 

Cambodia 

PUBLIC MEDIA - WEEK 7

Public media mission is to serve the public, imbedding "public service ethos". Within Australia their are two public media corporations, SBS and ABC. Both these public media companies are provided to cater for all democratic, which I believe is impossible in a extensive multicultural society. I might also input here that everything is biased. It is near to impossible to be impartial, though the selection of news, writers, journalists, ethnic background of presenters, everything comes with biased opinions. Secondly public media is providing a nationalism view and its functions are: 

• Nation Building 
• National Heritage 
• National identity 
• National conversations

People argue that public media appears dull, boring and slow. I believe this is a positive and negative. In being positive, it is simply supplying information with no underlying motive. It is simple and direct with providing Australia with current events and provides limited money to the presentation of the show allowing more funds to the actual news. The negative side to the program presentation is that the majority of audiences is from a illiterate or older society. The style allows limited viewing to, for example, a younger generation. It is not rocket science to know that young Australians prefer bright and captivating programs and this is the audience ABC and SBS fails to reach. I am embarrassingly guilty of this. I would rather watch channel 7's "Sunrise" than "7.30 Report". Although I know of the biased opinion that surrounds commercial media, I prefer to watch it, to get my light hearted fix of programs. After saying that, I would always choose to work for ABC over 7, as I know it is where real, true journalism exists.