Power without responsibility

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19 September 2011Renowned essayist and public intellectual Robert Manne discusses his new Quarterly Essay 43 on the Australian newspaper with Eric Beecher (Crikey). Entitled 'Bad News: Murdoch's Australian and the Shaping of the Nation', the essay investigates what happens when one newspaper becomes a central political actor, and how this affects public debate in Australia.

Melbourne, August 2011

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