This year's winner of the Graham Perkin Award for Journalism, The Australian's Tony Koch, speaks to the Media Report about the difficulties involved in covering Indigenous issues.

AUDIO: Fred Hilmer was for seven years head of the media company the Fairfax group, and the often difficult and combative challenges he faced in that role he's decided to talk openly about in his book, The Fairfax Experience: What the Mangagement Texts Didn't Teach Me. In this audio download Geraldine Doogue interivews Hilmer about...

This was one of several reviews of ABC funding carried out by the Howard Government. It found that the ABC's level of funding at the time was significantly lower than other international public broadcasters and its domestic peers.