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Face the Nation (Australian TV program)

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ17050919 ↗
Source-derived summary

Face the Nation is an Australian panel discussion television program which aired on Melbourne station GTV-9 from 20 July 1958 to 10 May 1959. Political matters were often discussed. The chairman of the panel was Roland Strong.

TV listings list it as being a live programme.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Face the Nation (Australian TV program)” is television series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Face, Nation and Australian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 1959—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Face, Nation and Australian is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17050919. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1958 and 1959.

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This entry incorporates text from “Face the Nation (Australian TV program)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.