In this third “vision statement”, the Labor leader has condemned online platforms for being unwilling to filter out false information.
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Our national security laws are uniquely broad and complex – and media freedom too often becomes entangled in them. It’s time to enshrine this freedom as a central part of our democracy.
Black consciousness in South Africa changed blacks and whites.
As the battle over press freedom continues, the Attorney-General has ordered that any prosecution of a journalist for offences related to national security must have his approval.
Michelle Grattan reviews another busy week in federal politics, and take a look at the prime minister’s major speech on Monday on the public service.
In death, President Mohamed Beji Caid Essebsi has left behind an unfinished revolution which now needs a new leader.
We have a serious deficit in legal protection for human rights in Australia, rights that have been in regression for 20 years. We need a legislated charter setting out the rights we care about.
Australian laws make it inevitable for whistleblowers to be charged whenever national security might be involved, even when the information is in the public interest.
While the ministerial direction represents a genuflection in the direction of press freedom, it provides nothing by way of protection for whistleblowers.
Despite media companies’ revenue declining in recent years, a nine-year study reveals that the greatly feared death of investigative journalism has not occurred.
In a surprising change in trends, citizens in many African countries increasingly support government restrictions of press freedom.
Paul Oosting responds to GetUp’s critics
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GetUp's national director Paul Oosting joins Michelle Grattan to respond to critics who accuse the organisation of "creating an environment...[of] abuse, harassment, intimidation".
Western aid has resulted in an Anglo-American culture of journalism education which has proved impractical to implement in African countries with illiberal political regimes.
A parliamentary inquiry into press freedom is merely a public relations exercise designed to buy time until the public anger over last month’s police raids dies down.
Labor is proposing establishing a new parliamentary committee to look into press freedom; one that will deal with whistle blowers and have crossbench representation.
The heads of News Corp, Nine and ABC talked tough on the need for stronger legal protections for journalists. But unity is meaningless unless it brings meaningful action from the government.
Media companies’ legal challenges to the legitimacy of recent AFP raids will allow the courts to clarify where the line is between national security and press freedom.
Following similar comments by Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack, a senator has called for the ABC to sell its Ultimo headquarters and move to the suburbs and regional centres.
Ideally, Australia would introduce constitutional protections for media freedom. But, in the meantime, four laws need urgent reform to better balance those freedoms with national security.
Raymond Louw will be remembered as a man of unbending principle.
Principais colaboradores
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Journalism and Communications, Macquarie University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Reader in International Journalism, City, University of London
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Caxton Professor of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor in Media and Communication, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Associate Professor in International Relations & Academic Director of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Media Industries, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Communications, University of Westminster
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Emeritus Professor of Journalism, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific., Australian National University
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Founding Editor, Pacific Journalism Review / Te Koakoa, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, Stellenbosch University
