LibGuides: VCE English Issues: Resources

Comment and opinion

Opinion pieces provide a personal view, using emotive language and sometimes cliches. Morals and values are often referred to while Commentary articles provide explanations of an issue with varying perspectives and offer alternative views and insights.

The Age Comment and Opinion
This link provides access to letters to the editor, commentary, opinion pieces and the Age editorials.
Herald Sun Comment and Opinion
This link provides access to commentary, opinion and the editorials of the Herald Sun
The Conversation
This informative site examines issues in the news. Topics to follow, explainers, across all areas. Great for inspiration.

Search strategies

Remember to enclose a phrase in inverted commas

'comment and debate'
letters (no need for inverted commas)
'letters & emails'
'letters to the editor'
'and another thing'
'opinion and analysis'

Search strategies

Remember to enclose a phrase in inverted commas

'herald sun editorial'
'your say'
'50/50'
'text talk'
'hot topic'

Public libraries

Join the State Library of VIctoria (SLV)

As a Library member, you can access over two million books, photos, artworks, documents, maps, manuscripts and more when you visit State Library Victoria. Members can also log in to thousands of online databases, journals, magazines, ebooks and newspapers from around the world.

Eastern Regional Library
Join to access online databases.

The Age news feed

The Drum

The Drum: panel discussion show
Analysis of the day's news in an engaging & entertaining way. Host Julia Baird is joined by a panel of journalists, political & social commentators for a lively, thought-provoking discussion.

TripleJ

The Hack
Hack talks about the stuff that matters to young Australians. In your feed 24/7, on your radio 5:30pm weekdays.

Newspaper databases

Echo Issues Online

Echo provides a comprehensive investigation into issues in the news and links to articles. Not all issues are investigated but search this database for ideas.

NewsBank

NewsBank contains full text articles from The Age, the Australia, the Herald Sun and the local Leader newspapers. Search for opinion articles, editorials, letters to the editor back to 2000.

Usernames and Passwords are available at this link

Ask the Learning Commons staff for the password to this link.

Online news

Huffington Post Australia
The Guardian Australia
The Saturday Paper
See Learning Commons staff for username and password.
The Age
See Learning Commons staff for username and password.

Bibliography Maker: Cite This For Me

Cite this for me
Bibliography maker; enter a URL, book title, newspaper title and let Cite This For Me do the rest.

Alert: Cite this for me will only hold your citations for 6 days and then they will disappear.
Remember to SAVE your citations to a Pages document at each stage.

Make sure you complete the final step of the process by clicking Download Bibliography - Copy and Paste.