Newsweek (TV program)

Newsweek is an Australian 30-minute local current affairs television program that was broadcast weekly on regional television in Australia from 1978 to 1989, prior to the aggregation of Australian television. Newsweek was produced and directed in Townsville, for North Queensland Television (NQTV). The program became one of Australia's longest running current affairs television programs of its era.^[1] It was also the longest running current affairs show in Queensland.^[2]

Newsweek was unique to the current affairs television programs of the time like State Affair and A Current Affair that dealt with wider issues in that Newsweek's interest was focused on North Queensland, its people, problems and achievements and making people aware of what was going on in the North.^[2]