The Media Report speaks with social commentator and blogger Manan Ahmed about the crackdown on the media in Pakistan. Manan Ahmed is a well-known blogger who covers developments right across the sub-continent. His blog is called Chapati Mystery and he warns that the media crackdown is far from over. In fact, he says, it's now...

The Media Report examines the BBC's designs on Australia in an interview with Wayne Garvie, the Managing Director of Content and Production at BBC Worldwide. The Beeb's commercial arm BBC Worldwide has us clearly in its sights. And it also has plans to expand its presence in three other international markets - India, Canada and...

Forget about releasing new state and commonwealth land. If we want to get serious about housing affordability, maybe it's time to re-think stamp duty, so that you pay it when you sell the house rather than when you buy it. Better still: why not stamp out stamp duty entirely and replace it with a land...

We've heard a lot lately about the ill health and social difficulties of Aboriginal communities in some remote regions of the country and the government's response to them. What we haven't heard much about is how the environment in which Indigenous people live: the houses, schools, hospitals and community centres impact on physical and mental...

What exactly is an emoticon? And what makes for good and bad email? According to Kristin Byron, from the Whitman School of Management at New York's Syracuse University, training staff in how to effectively use email is something that most companies and organisations simply overlook. And that's despite the fact that inappropriate, or sloppy email...