It’s been fifty years since television came to Australia, and with the internet age in full swing, some are suggesting that the medium will likely have lost much of its allure (and its power over the public consciousness) fifty years from now. But as cultural forces go, none in recent memory can match TV for sheer reach across all swaths of public and private life. “It seems to survive despite its own vagaries and its speciousness on occasions… It’s a completely voracious medium, but it suits people that, one, don’t sleep and, two, are fairly quick with ideas.”