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Holidaymakers wanting to spend time in short-stay properties in Victoria could be looking at a 7.5 per cent increase in total booking fees. A short-stay levy has been proposed by the Victorian Government to be implemented as ofJanuary 2025, leaving local in some towns uncertain what it means for tourism and housing. Elke De Smet reports

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Slug: Game Over: The Death and Re-Birth of Australia's Gaming Industry

Student Name: Donal Sheil
Subject Code: 100575582
Assignment number: 3
Date Due: 27-10-2017

Duration: 21':50" 
Last Voice: 21':50"

In Cue: 

*footsteps*
"When you start to play a video game."
*disc tray ejects*
*disc is placed on tray*
*tray re-enters console*
"Sliding the disk delicately onto the tray and into the console, chances are you assume that the game you're playing was made overseas."
*console hums as it begins to heat up*
*distant video game SFX fade in*

Out Cue: 

"It's a thing you remember fondly, so even though we knew the end was coming and when the end actually hit, it's the end of something that was good, not the end of something that was bad."

Game over: The Death and Re-Birth of Australia's Gaming Industry

Slug: “How Can We Saving Our Reef?”
File Name: Lynch_Andrew_Interview.mp3
Student Name: Andrew Lynch
Subject Code: MDA30009
Assignment No.: 2
Date Due: 27th April 2018
Talent: Simon Claridge
Duration: 6’ 00”
Last Voice: 5’ 54” 

In Cue: Ocean Waves under. Voice: “Beneath these rolling waves lies an incredible world…”
Out Cue: Voice (Simon Claridge) “…protect our ecosystem for the future generation”. Ocean waves till end.

Interview: How can we prevent coral bleaching?

Slug: “Why recycle e-waste?”
File Name: white-reese_emma-beth_interview.mp3
Student Name: Emma-Beth White-Reese
Subject Code: MDA30009
Assignment No.: 2
Date Due: 27th April 2018
Talent: Emily Newton 
Duration: How long 5’ [16”]
Last Voice: Second Emily stops speaking 5’ [15”]

In Cue: Voice: “Gadgets, machines, devices. We love using all of the newest electronic goods…”
Out Cue: “both socially and environmentally, recycling e-waste is really important”

Interview: The upside of recycling our e-waste

Slug: The responsible and ethical reporting on climate change
File Name: Quinn_Caitlyn_interview.mp3 
Student Name: Caitlyn Quinn
Subject Code: MDA30009
Assignment No.: 2
Date Due: 27th April 2018
Talent: Associate Professor Johan Lidberg 
Duration: 5.28
Last Voice: 5.27

In Cue: Voice of Caitlyn Quinn; “Is there a place for balance when reporting on climate change?’
Out Cue: Voice of Johan Lidberg; “So the answer to your question is yes.”

Interview: How is climate change reported by the media in Australia?

Its been the butt of jokes, the focus of much parody and satire and remains, for those on the outside, one of the foods, like the Durian fruit, that unless you try it, you’ll never know.

Alex Lowe is a film maker, writer and student at Swinburne University. His grandpa hails from the North of England, just south of the border with Scotland.

In this program Alex catches up with his pa and taking his advice, goes on “The Hunt for Haggis”.

Alex Lowes – The Hunt for Haggis

In this documentary we get to glimpse inside the complicated relationships that evolve within a family as they take on a pet.

15 years ago, Maddison Pettit’s dad, Craig, got a call from her mum, Jodie. It was call that shaped their lives as a family because at the end of it, the little puppy with the fey eyes and droopy ears was renamed “Bonnie” and went home on the back seat of the car.

Now, well into her 70’s Bonnie is no longer the rambunctious new “daughter” but has become the sweet, retiring ‘older lady’ of the house.

Told from the perspectives of everyone in the family, “Bonnie’s Story” offers a glimpse into something many of us are familiar with.

Maddison was a third year media and communications student and even though she claims Bonnie as her own, you might conclude that Bonnie sees herself as every bodies.

Maddison Pettit – Bonnie’s Story

This feature takes into a world that some people may not know exists. Perhaps it’s just something many never put much thought into or maybe some were never taught the fine art and intricacies of gift giving.

That, luckily for us, is not the experience of Rebecca Pannell as she introduces us to “The Art of Gift Giving”.

In the lead up to Christmas last year Rebecca sat down with her Aunty and her best friend to find out what she was doing wrong, how to improve her gift giving skills and the traps to avoid when buying for a loved (or not so loved) one.

Rebecca was a fourth year media and communications student at Swinburne University.

Rebecca Pannell – Gift Giving

This is audio produced by students in the journalism program at Swinburne University Melbourne.

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