Neighbours


On TV, teen sex will always end in tears — or death

Just once, can TV producers let two young people have sex with no shock pregnancies, miscarriages, screaming arguments, deaths by car-crash, drowning or rogue flight of stairs? pleads Clem Bastow.

Abjorensen: The real fun begins 25 November

If, as the polls tell us, November 24 is a foregone conclusion, can we then look forward to the morning after? Norman Abjorensen forecasts the Coalition blame game.

Media briefs and TV ratings

The Simpsons v Murdoch … New look Neighbours … Rowe move to Seven … C7 decision … Seven still winning … Last night’s TV ratings.

History is more than just recitative

News that PM John Howard has been micro-managing the drafting of the new history curriculum (Crikey, yesterday) should come as no surprise.