This paper deals with one aspect of the European transnational public sphere: the Arabic language media. An astonishing range, both national and transnational, is available. This paper inserts the issue of transnational media, in Arabic language in particular, into the vexed debate about citizenship in the European context.

Getting the long-term jobless into mainstream employment is a major challenge for Australian governments, especially in areas of concentrated disadvantage. The Brotherhood’s approach, also used effectively overseas, is to use an 'intermediate labour market' (ILM) as a bridge between long-term unemployment and the mainstream labour market. This research report presents initial findings about the effectiveness...

This Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance submission to the Australian Communications and Media Authority focuses on the need for maintaining quotas for children's programs, the desirability of increasing the quotas, scheduling and promotion, the inadvisability of contemplating so-called tradable obligations and touches on advertising. When the Australian Content Standard was last reviewed in 2002, it...

Introduction A creeping authoritarianism and a pronounced lack of diversity are making their impact felt on Australia’s already fragile media landscape. Despite Australia’s traditions of freedom and its status as a long-time liberal democracy, its ranking in terms of press freedom has fallen below that of many newer democracies. In an international survey by Freedom...

The Media Report travelled to Indonesia recently to take a first hand look at the state of the Indonesian media. The country has experienced some remarkable liberalisation over the last ten years, but what's that meant for Indonesia's media sector?