Associate Professor Chris Nash from the University of Technology Sydney, argues that the Australian constitutional framework for freedom of the press is weaker than in other liberal democracies. With strong commercial pressures and the detrimental legislative and financial impact of recent national governments on public media alternatives, the terrain on which the contest for freedom...

The war in Iraq raises again the issue of media coverage of conflict and the public's right to know. News that the United States military has 'embedded' 500 journalists in its fighting units suggests that the public will receive a more complete picture than it has in some recent conflicts. However, the coverage may be...

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.

In this submission to the Senate committee examining the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Media Ownership) Bill 2002, Jock Given argues that it is not clear that the provisions of the Bill will lead to the greater diversity and competition it professes to promote. On the contrary, it seems likely to result in a wave of consolidation...

Prepared for the Australian Broadcasting Authority by Ben Goldsmith, Julian Thomas, Tom O'Regan and Stuart Cunningham, The Future for Local Content: Options for Emerging Technologies considers the cultural and social objectives of media policy in the context of technological change - including the transition to digital transmission, multichanneling and datacasting.