Lateline is an Australian television news and current affairs program, airing weeknights at 10:30 pm on ABC1, similar in format to the BBC's Newsnight program. The program has developed a reputation for head-to-head debates on current issues and political interviews. Lateline is followed by its sister programme Lateline Business, which commenced on 14 August 2006. It has been labelled by the influential Crikey magazine as being, "an unmissable cu...
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Lateline is an Australian television news and current affairs program, airing weeknights at 10:30 pm on ABC1, similar in format to the BBC's Newsnight program. The program has developed a reputation for head-to-head debates on current issues and political interviews. Lateline is followed by its sister programme Lateline Business, which commenced on 14 August 2006. It has been labelled by the influential Crikey magazine as being, "an unmissable current affairs program that almost certainly creates more headlines in the next day's newspapers than any other TV show in the country.
When Lateline premiered on 13 February 1990, it was a thirty-minute single-topic debate forum hosted by Kerry O'Brien, with Ian Carroll as executive producer, and produced in Canberra. Airing on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights in 1990 and 1991, and expanding to Monday to Thursday nights from 1992 onwards, the program opened with a seven-minute video piece that attempted to examine the case in a balanced...
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