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Trust in the media is falling while fake news anxiety rises, report finds
The Digital News Report 2019 lead author, Professor Caroline Fisher, told The World Today that concern about fake news was highly dependent on demographics, which was cause for concern.
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Gun lobby dictates policy in New Zealand: Philip Alpers
Adjunct associate professor Philip Alpers is the director of a global project comparing gun laws in 350 jurisdictions worldwide. Alpers tells The World Today that New Zealand is the only developed country other than the US and Canada without universal gun registration.
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Could Australia learn from US approach to gun violence?
As last Sunday's shooting death of a three-year-old girl in Sydney shows, Australia's gun control and gun violence prevention system has flaws.
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CBS takeover of Network Ten a defeat for Murdoch, Gordon
American broadcaster, CBS, has beaten out billionaires, Lachlan Murdoch and Bruce Gordon, to buy Network Ten.
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Are governments using the threat of terrorism as a pretext to spy on their citizens?
The United Nation's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy, Professor Joe Cannataci, says governments are using terrorism as a pretext, and wants to regulate government surveillance of citizens.