1988, Gunther Kress, Communication and Culture, New South Wales University Press, page 177,
The conventions include […] impossibly complicated interrelationships (most characters in soapies are either related or married or have slept together, and in celebrated instances, all three).
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In terms of its general mood, the average Australian soapie, in comparison with the American soap, is less intense, less subjective, and certainly a good deal less angst-ridden.
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CHANNEL 7 has censored a lesbian kissing scene in its popular family soapie Home and Away after a viewer backlash.
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