http://empa.arts.unsw.edu.au
University of New South Wales: Australian Cinema & Television
http://empa.arts.unsw.edu.au/media/File/ARTS2062GENT0803_S110.pdf
Another way to get basic information about a certain academic topic is to have a look at online lecture notes of university classes. They provide an essential overview of their area, which usually also includes a very useful list of references (online and print) and the most important readings, articles and theories.
The University of New South Wales for example offers a course titled Australian Cinema and Television, and the course guide is available online. While the course description or other administrative details are less relevant, it is basically the lecture, screening and tutorial program, the recommended readings, must see films and the journal and online resources that are of great interest.
In the lecture program, there is a detailed description of the key concepts on the lecture topic, recommended reading, the most important films and TV shows and further links. The lecture itself covers all the basics of Australian national cinema and TV, from the bush legend and ozploitation to muckumentaries and Indigenous cinema.
Lecture notes like these can be quite useful, as they cover everything a teacher of that subject would consider to be the standard that you should know, and from that basic foundation of knowledge and all the provided references it is much easier to move to a more specialized topic for your own research.
