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Communication
 Western
Australia's sense of isolation from Australia and the world has been reduced
since Federation through improved communications. First telegraph, then
radio, television and finally the internet have connected the State with
the world.
 The
inaugural broadcast by a local radio station was by 6WF in 1924. It wasn't
until 1933, however, that the first Australia-wide radio broadcast took
place. For the next twenty years radio was the only means of national mass-communication.
Movie newsreels lacked the immediacy of radio while newspapers were local
and daily.
 The
first television broadcast in 1959 helped change the perspective of Western
Australians as they were open to national broadcasting and international
programs, chiefly American and British. Since then more television channels
have been introduced. The last commercial channel to begin operating in
Perth was channel 10 in 1984, while SBS began broadcasting in 1986. The
move to national TV 'networks' has resulted in less Australian program content
generated from the West.
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