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An ACCC interim report is one of the most consequential documents for media policy in decades, while a government report finds both public broadcasters are acting in the public interest.
The outcome will be disappointing to News Corp in particular which has
been highly critical of the ABC’s expansion in online publishing.
In a strong defence of the public broadcaster, its chairman has warned against clipping the ABC’s digital wings and defended its place in preserving the nation’s identity.
The focus raises questions about the motives behind the inquiry and how it might benefit anti-ABC crusaders, including Pauline Hanson.
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has won major measures to increase scrutiny of the ABC and potentially clip its wings.
Les Murray helped football transform itself from a predominantly migrant activity in Australia into what he loved to call ‘the world game’.
A beautiful interactive SBS online documentary puts the spotlight on Marra, an Indigenous language spoken fluently by just three people.
The SBS documentary DNA Nation tracks three people on their ‘individual genetic journey’. But for Indigenous Australians in particular, genetic testing is a can of worms - politically, ethically and technically.
Australia has struggled to forge cultural ties with the Asia-Pacific region. But SBS’s deal to develop an Asian Eurovision could change this - there is more to the event than music, costume reveals and wind machines.
Doctors break no law in using a placebo, but may cross an ethical boundary in choosing not deceive a patient, or to facilitate a patient’s self-deception.
We thought the phone hacking scandal would chasten News Corp. We were wrong.
Repeated surveys show that people value public broadcasters highly. But the political class isn’t listening.
Its increasingly corporate model aligns with mainstream media organisations, but SBS Radio needs to retain its community advocacy role – in the current climate more than ever.
The recent sacking of an SBS journalist for controversial statements made on social media could inspire self-censorship amongst journalists.
Scott McIntyre’s legal challenge against being sacked by SBS will be an interesting test of whether the Fair Work Act offers any safe haven for employees to maintain a personal and political identity.
The producers of this series are doing what public service media are tasked to do – making the marginal visible, including the excluded, putting poverty on the public agenda.
The more privileged of us swear, fart and take drugs, just like the less privileged portrayed in the SBS show Struggle Street. But they don’t have exploitive documentaries being made about them.
It is naïve to expect men to kill and die for their country, to live through the horrors of a particularly barbaric war, and to come out the other end unscathed – despite our popular myths.
Journalism schools are full of first-generation students that fit the SBS charter’s directive to ‘make use of Australia’s diverse creative resources’ and ‘reflect the changing nature of Australian society’.
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Honorary Associate Professor, Journalism, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Journalism, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies, University of Canterbury
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PhD candidate in media and communications, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Journalism, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, Adelaide University
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Professor of Economics, RMIT University
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Laboratory Head, Immunology, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
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Lecturer in History of Medicine/Life Science, The University of Melbourne