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May 2013

Trusting the Media: On Transparency. Dr Fiona Martin

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Speaking at Sydney Ideas event 'Trusting The Media', Dr Fiona Martin addresses the topic of transparency. University of Sydney, April 2013

May 2013

Trusting the Media: On the Public Interest. Amanda Wilson

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Amanda Wilson, Director, Amanda Wilson Communications and former Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, speaks at Sydney Ideas' Trusting the Media event. April 2013

May 2013

Trusting the Media: On Accountability. Paul Chadwick

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Paul Chadwick, journalist and lawyer, was the first Director Editorial Policies of the ABC (2007-12) and is now a director of Guardian Australia. He talks about media accountability at Sydney Ideas' Trusting the Media event, April 2013

March 2013

Can't Be That Hard. Politics and the Media Today

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Last year Julia Gillard told journalists at the National Press Club: “Don’t write crap. Can’t be that hard.” Should Australia’s media’s...

September 2012

A Note on the Shifting Polls

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The latest Newspoll has Labor and the Coalition at 50–50 for the two-party-preferred vote. By contrast the AC Nielsen poll has the two parties at 47–53. Which poll is right? In 2011, in Quarterly Essay 41, George Megalogenis addressed this question: &

Stephen Frears’ 'The Queen'

A Story of Spin

By Adrian Martin

It's the type of bold mixture we have not seen on a big or small screen since Kennedy Miller's local epic The Dismissal: on the one hand, liberal use of archival news and documentary footage, a torrent of newspaper front pages and headlines; on the other, free