While the media is rightly concerned about protecting freedom of expression, this paper argues that this must not be to the exclusion of privacy rights. This paper, presented at the 2010 Conference of the Centre for Media and Communications Law, argues that there are at present significant gaps in privacy laws. People’s privacy rights are...

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On 14 May 2009, the Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Communications and the Arts handed down a Report after completing an Inquiry into 'The Reporting of Sports News and the Emergence of Digital Media'. Called by the Federal Minister for Communications, Broadband and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy, the Inquiry sought, in the words of...

The reporting of Kevin Rudd’s climate speech demonstrated the failings of the news media, writes Geoffrey Barker in Inside Story