The media has wasted little time reminding the Coalition government that its rigorous scrutiny of the former Labor government was par for the course. Journalists are snapping at the Coalition’s heels on…
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Coalition leader Tony Abbott, in an eleventh-hour election campaign pitch, pledged to “roll back Labor’s laws that limit free speech” and to require the Australian Human Rights Commission to champion…
Prime minister Kevin Rudd and opposition leader Tony Abbott faced off tonight for the third time in the 2013 election campaign at the Rooty Hill RSL Club in Sydney’s western suburbs. In the town hall-style…
“Lord, Lord. How this world is given to lying!” cries Falstaff in King Henry IV. Quoting these words in a 1991 Harvard University public lecture, the then-executive editor of the Washington Post, Benjamin…
Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott have met in a “town hall” style leaders’ debate at the Broncos Leagues Club in Brisbane. Abbott and Rudd took questions from an audience of 100 undecided voters on issues from…
Almost a fortnight into the federal election campaign some are despairing about the superficiality of the overall debate. One could be forgiven for viewing the media focus as being gaffe-driven and tittle…
Paul Barry this week asked on his Media Watch program: “who could forget the way the Tele kicked off the election campaign?” The Daily Telegraph’s front-page Kick The Mob Out editorial drew positive reader…
In my August 8 article I asked: “Do election promises matter?” It was prompted by Western Australian premier Colin Barnett saying he did not think “people study the promises” – in response to stinging…
The announcement of News Corporation Australia chief executive Kim Williams’ resignation has been greeted with surprise. Williams spent 20 months in the job after heading up subscription network Foxtel…
Following stinging criticism for breaking key promises made in the Western Australia March state election, premier Colin Barnett recently remarked on Perth’s Radio 6PR: “I don’t think people study the…
An election “is also a contest between media outlets”, my fellow panellist Professor Sinclair Davidson observed in his blog yesterday. Not quite so in Western Australia, where The West Australian remains…
The recent Finkelstein inquiry into media regulation in Australia has suggested a new body to govern journalistic standards and handle complaints from the public, the News Media Council. But at a time…
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