This report is about the challenges facing public interest journalism in Australia and policy responses to its structural decline. It synthesises a roundtable of industry, government and academic participants, identifying priorities including platform regulation, sustainable funding and professional standards. Participants agreed addressing market failure requires evidence‑based policy focused on transparency, long‑term viability and media literacy.

This study examines the media literacy needs of those who are already experiencing disadvantage in society due to various reasons. Among the diverse range of groups that experience disadvantage, researchers focused on the needs of four groups: multicultural communities, people with disability, older people in aged-care, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.