Media
POEM: Sonnet on Australia's media hacks

This poem is an *IA Writing Competition (creative work category) entry.  
Soldier of courage: An open letter to David McBride

Naomi Fryers pens the following to a fellow writer, a father, a lawyer, a soldier and a stoic ...  
ABC trails Coalition on its Road to Nowhere

The Coalition's ongoing disinformation campaign is increasingly being echoed and amplified by ...  
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EDITORIAL: ABC trails Coalition on its road to nowhere

The Coalition's ongoing disinformation campaign is increasingly being platformed by the national ...  
Latest snapshot of Albo’s economy defies mainstream media negativity

The national accounts for the June quarter do not support the popular narrative of a severe cost ...  
Gina Rinehart drills, digs and destroys

It appears Gina Rinehart has a PR problem.  
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EDITORIAL: Gina drills, digs and destroys

It’s easy to control the narrative when you’re the richest person in the land. You can buy ...  
Content creators give mainstream journalists valid competition

Social media content creators are offering political commentary that is more trustworthy than some ...  
Chalmers on track to join Keating and Swan as world’s best treasurer

The latest economic news confirms the Albanese Government is responding to uncertain times rema ...  
Jim Chalmers gets the boffins to measure what really matters

The Bureau of Statistics is broadening its research beyond population, jobs and inflation into ...  
BOOK REVIEW: The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch

Paddy Manning’s book is the story of Lachlan Murdoch’s ascension to become the head of one of ...  
Defaming Dutton and Co or calling a racist a racist?

Managing editor Michelle Pini discusses defamatory statements versus inarguable facts in relation ...  
History wars fought to avoid cultural amnesia

Historians have a responsibility to preserve the story of our nation – the good and the bad – ...  
IA Writing Competition: $2,000 to be won!

There's still time to get your entries into the IA Writing Competition for a chance to win!  
Reports of government student visa cut misleading

Reports of the Government risking economic chaos by cutting the numbers of international students ...  
News media's lack of accountability destroying democracy

The failure of mainstream journalists and news organisations to hold the powerful to account ...  
Press Council must do vastly better or be replaced

Australia’s official media watchdog is failing to stem the daily flow of destructive falsehoo ...  
Media, government, spies — collectively they're memory-holing neo-Nazism

Neo-Nazis have risen to organisational prominence in Australia lately. If "authorities" remain th ...  

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