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Category: Media Law & Media Freedom

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MEDIA REGULATION: It’s a mess, and we have to fix it

17/02/202316/02/2023
The controversial ACMA finding on the Four Corners two-part program, ‘Fox and the Big Lie’, has again highlighted the shortcomings of the media standards regulation processes in Australia. But what…
ABC Independence…

ACMA wrong on Four Corners’ Fox program

04/01/202309/02/2023
The recent ACMA ruling on ABC Four Corners’ two-part program ‘Fox and the Big Lie’ sets a dangerous precedent, says ABC Alumni chair Jonathan Holmes. In a letter to ACMA chair…
ABC People…

Muzzling Milligan

06/12/202203/01/2023
Last week, the ACT’s Director of Public Prosecutions announced that there would be no retrial of Bruce Lehrmann, because it would pose a “significant and unacceptable risk to the life…
ABC Funding…

We need an all-party Declaration of support for the ABC, says former MD Geoffrey Whitehead

21/10/202226/11/2022
In a world where support for fully government-funded, independent public broadcasters is declining, Australia is fortunate to have a new federal government that recognises the importance of the ABC. But,…
ABC Independence…

The Curious Case of the Missing Managing Director

18/05/202218/05/2022
ABC chair Ita Buttrose has been a stalwart defender of ABC independence, so it’s hard to fathom why she and her directors plan to create a complaints system with an…
ABC Independence…

Kerry O’Brien: DEMOCRACY & THE ABC

11/05/202216/05/2022
“Never, in my lifetime, has the ABC been more important than it is today…yet it is constantly under attack.” – Kerry O’Brien https://youtu.be/axqOCKSCdQU The former presenter of Lateline, The 7.30…
ABC Independence…

HERE WE GO AGAIN

22/09/202115/11/2021
There are rumours that the ABC is about to hold another review into its complaints system. The last one, in 2009, recommended the abolition of the Independent Complaints Review Panel,…
AFP…

THE SECRET STATE SURVIVES

05/06/202116/06/2021
Almost exactly two years ago, the Australian Federal Police executed a search warrant at the ABC’s headquarters in Ultimo, Sydney. That raid, and the search the day before of News…
Alumni Articles…

WHO’S TO JUDGE?

29/05/202116/07/2022
In Part 2 of this essay on issues surrounding defamation law (see Part 1: ‘Ghosts Can’t Sue’), Jonathan Holmes looks at the Federal Court, which has become the forum of…
ABC Programs…

Ghosts Can’t Sue

02/05/202103/09/2021
The three-part investigation of the 1979 Luna Park Ghost Train fire by the ABC’s Exposed team reminded Jonathan Holmes of the time almost forty years ago when Four Corners took…

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