When the two big old political parties work together to try to silence a newspaper for reporting what they’ve been up to with voters’ information, that’s when you should be concerned: Yesterday the Victorian Parliamentary Electoral Matters Committee, chaired by Liberal MP Bernie Finn, handed in its report on the 2010 election. In doing so, [...]

A Liberal Party premier of WA is quoted on one of our news sites talking of seceding from Australia. The mining boom, he says, is “concealing the true weakness of the national economy”. (A more accurate way of putting that is that the mining boom is, through draining other sectors of workers and raising the [...]

Stephen Mayne made the case over a year ago in Crikey: Why ACMA should force Lachlan Murdoch off News Corp board Given that Lachlan Murdoch is now exerting clear influence over Ten Network Holdings as acting CEO and a substantial shareholder, why aren’t the regulators examining the question of his ongoing directorship of News Corporation? [...]

Today’s Australian Financial Review: The questions that News will not answer Two weeks later, the core issues raised by the AFR  have not been addressed; the questions go unanswered. The AFR  has been putting them to NDS, and later News Corp, since last August. They have declined to answer. One of NDS’s few responses was [...]

Then. It is through the media that most Australians are kept informed about most of the things that affect them. And the rights of the media are a reasonable reflection of the rights that individuals can expect to enjoy. I don’t think there is much dispute now that secrecy and censorship of what we are [...]

I’m not sure if this is supposed to inspire me to pay for the “premium” supposedly non-drivel content behind the paywall, but why else would “News” publish this drivel on its front page? A JOKE plan by internet giant Google to strap cameras on kangaroos’ heads to capture the outback “one bounce at a time” [...]