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No umpire needed in sport media
The AFL, with its of salary caps and draft restrictions, is one of the most regulated sports in the world. Unfortunately, the Australian media is...
More needs to be done to improve the public broadcaster
The decision to update the editorial policies of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to seek greater balance and impartiality in the content of...
Media-rule horse has bolted
Communications Minister Helen Coonan's attempts at policy reform have so far been conspicuous failures. Telstra's fibre to the node network was...
Only the market can properly reshape the media
Robert Menzies despised television and stated privately that he hoped it would not be introduced during his government. Does Communications...
Market the massage, not media moguls
The release of submissions to Communications Minister Helen Coonan's media reform proposals merely confirm a few truisms about the debate over...
The wrong way to change the culture
Keith Windschuttle's appointment to the ABC board is not the final victory of the conservatives in the culture wars. It is not, despite the faux...
Controlling media madness
In George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the key functions of government are performed by The Ministry of Truth. The ministry provides all...