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Uncivil and unbalanced: the Australian media can’t be trusted to report on industry reform

By Alexandra Wake | Published: 19/03/2013
Anyone who has picked up the country’s biggest newspapers in the past week (and that of course includes the nation’s poll-fearing political powerbrokers) would naturally think communication minister Stephen Conroy’s apparently doomed media reforms presented a serious threat to Australia In the past week the newspapers, lead by Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, have put Conroy on [...]
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Location, location, location

By Vincent ODonnell | Published: 30/01/2013
The ABC’s decision to close production in Hobart raises some issues about localism in Australian production for television as well as cinema. Location has ebbed and flowed as an issue in cinema. Mid-Pacific (or mid-Atlantic) was a term applied to productions that stripped away any vestige of identity of the production location, in a hope [...]
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Convergence Review: tame cat Press Council gets playmate

By Alexandra Wake | Published: 07/05/2012
It should be easy for the Gillard Government to accept the
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Layers come out on top at Convergence Review

By Vincent ODonnell | Published: 07/10/2011
The Convergence Review Panel has released five detailed discussion papers that reflect the breadth of issues raised in the public and private consultations of the past five months. They are titled (with bureaucratic sobriety) Layering, Licensing and Regulation; Australian and Local Content; Spectrum Allocation and Management; Media Diversity; Competition and Market Structures; and Community Standards. [...]
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Regulating media – Shaping society

By Vincent ODonnell | Published: 30/08/2011
The Convergence Review into Australian media panel has been on tour and passed through Melbourne on 9 August. It’s largely a listening tour and, to the panel’s credit, they are doing a lot of listening, though the appeal of the 10th reiteration of commonly recognised and agreed problems seems now to be fading. The Convergence [...]
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Silo thinking and the Convergence Review

By Vincent ODonnell | Published: 05/08/2011
In the midst of the Convergence Review into Australian media, when we are all thinking “outside the square”, it is good to read submissions that remind you that silo thinking is not the exclusive occupation of grain farmers. We all do it: it is in our training, it’s looking after the patch first and foremost.
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