MEDIA: Australian Media
MEDIA
New Teeth for Aunty: Reinvigorating the National Broadcaster
Robert Manne
This outline of my daily routine should at least make one thing clear: the ABC plays a very important part in my life. As it does for very...
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Lies that Tell the Truth: The paradox of art and creative writing
Simon Leys
This essay was originally an address to the annual conference of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, where its title, at the request of...
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Hidden Treasure: Forty-three Years at the ABC
Chris Masters
Despite that dismal episode, I still see the ABC as a national treasure. It can be snobbishly self-important and oafishly bureaucratic....
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In the Wake of Magellan: The Voyage of Globalisation’s Forefather
Simon Leys
First, though Magellan was indeed Portuguese, he sailed for Spain - personally commissioned by Charles V. His foreign origin provoked...
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MEDIA
The United States of Chris Mitchell: The Power of Rupert Murdoch and the Australian’s Editor-in-Chief
Sally Neighbour
Talk to any journalist, commentator, politician or public figure in Australia, and it seems they all have a view of Chris Mitchell...
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MEDIA
Notes on Evidence Given to the Media Inquiry
Somewhat to the surprise of the head of the media inquiry, Ray Finkelstein, I had drawn only two main conclusions in my recently published...
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MEDIA
Too Much Information: Andrew Charlton on Lindsay Tanner’s 'Sideshow'
Andrew Charlton
Recently I had dinner with a group of friends including a well-known political journalist. When I told him I was working my way through the...
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MEDIA
The future of the Australian media. Guthrie, Beecher, Overington, Barry
Part 1 | Part 2 To coincide with the release of Bruce Guthrie's Man Bites Murdoch, this distinguished panel of speakers (Bruce Guthrie,...
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MEDIA
The future of the Australian media (p2). Guthrie, Beecher, Overington, Barry
Part 1 | Part 2 To coincide with the release of Bruce Guthrie's Man Bites Murdoch, this distinguished panel of speakers (Bruce Guthrie,...
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WORLD
The Man Who Fell to Earth: Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks
John Birmingham
Semantics aside, it remained a benighted sinkhole, although nearly 1300 years of fierce parochialism and independence shone through even...
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SOCIETY
'Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania's Forests' by Anna Krien
John Birmingham
Tasmania is another country, sometimes another world. To move beyond the edge of settlement, which largely peters out a short drive from...
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SOCIETY
Connective Tissue: 'Tangle' (Season Two) and 'Spirited'
Delia Falconer
All the bullies I remember from school had Ben Mendelsohn’s build: heavy-legged, thick-armed and slightly soft around the middle. Or...
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SOCIETY
Theatre of Operations: Richard Linklater's 'Me and Orson Welles' and Nadia Tass's 'Matching Jack'
Luke Davies
If you are looking for signs of the apocalypse, you need look no further than High School Musical, the film franchise that began life as a...
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Amateur League: The Game of Politics
Mungo MacCallum
In nineteenth-century Britain, politics was seen as a bit of a diversion from the real business of life: a sort of gap year (or years)...
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School for Gangsters: 'Underbelly' and 'The Wire'
Alan Saunders
“Was that like a movie or what?” says one young thug to another after a shoot-up at a petrol station. We’re in the middle of the Melbourne...
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Rising Son: James Murdoch
Malcolm Knox
The Absence of TrustMurdoch’s choice of speech title was a simple pun. The object of his attack was to be the BBC Trust, the governing body...
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SOCIETY
Masterchef
Gay Bilson
It is like a sixteenth-century court: royal, papal, judicial – take your pick. The court makes its own rules and makes sure, by its self-...
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Mash-up: A Short History of the Media Future
John Birmingham
The formal library, in contrast, has none of this. Occupying the centre of the original house, its one nod to modernity is a rather groovy...
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8 February 2012
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