Media's poor need a leg up too

  • Michael Mullins

23 February 2010Perhaps Minister Conroy should now play pool at the local pub with a community radio station manager, writes Michael Mullins in Eureka Street

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is having to justify its seemingly scandalous $250 million 'gift' to Australia's free to air television networks Seven, Nine and Ten.

Earlier this month, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy announced that the government will 'protect Australian content on commercial television' by offering licence fee rebates to broadcasters in 2010 and 2011. The rationale for the grant has been overshadowed by its reporting in the context of news of the minister's US ski-slopes meeting with Seven boss Kerry Stokes...

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