Lee Duffield

• Dr Lee Duffield is Independent Australia's media editor.

  He has been practising and teaching journalism for over 40 years. With the ABC he was the first news editor on the youth radio service, Triple-Jay, and the Europe correspondent at the fall of the Berlin Wall.

  Until 2017, he was a senior lecturer in journalism at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane and continues to follow research interests in new media, European media and development news, notably in the Pacific region.

Articles written by Lee Duffield (181)

• 16 April 2024 | Gaza: The hope for decency, democracy and compromise
• 12 April 2024 | Gaza: The belligerents push on, the sufferers pay
• 14 March 2024 | ABC 2024: Battle of wills over ideologies
• 13 March 2024 | ABC in 2024: Facing the challenge of change-management
• 4 March 2024 | ABC Right-wing programs caught up in round of closures
• 9 February 2024 | Remembering Manfred Cross: A polite politician in a world of tough fights
• 28 December 2023 | #7 TOP IA STORY OF 2023: Qantas dances the Irish jig on the 'Spirit of Australia'
• 13 December 2023 | Bushman Tommy Ryan, pioneer of the Labor Party
• 24 November 2023 | Quality over quantity: Reliable media sources on the Israel-Gaza war
• 8 November 2023 | QANTAS: Dancing the Irish jig on the 'Spirit of Australia'
• 25 October 2023 | Middle East: No end in sight to cruel war many years in the making
• 10 October 2023 | Referendum’s clear choices on the way Australia should go
• 2 October 2023 | Major thrills as 2023 football season winds up in Australia
• 15 September 2023 | Voice Referendum: Old-fashioned racism driving 'No' campaign
• 23 June 2023 | Vale Barry Humphries: Possums to gather at Opera House for chunder session
• 8 June 2023 | More public housing would help those in Australia doing it tough
• 9 May 2023 | The coronation: Beneath the robes and rituals
• 8 May 2023 | Voice to Parliament 'No' movement is missing the point
• 31 January 2023 | Voice to Parliament: 'Yes' vote has many enemies
• 15 January 2023 | War in Ukraine: Gearing up for end of winter fighting
• 4 December 2022 | Pacific Media Centre gutted in blow to journalism on the Pacific Islands
• 23 November 2022 | Elite sport has become victim to greed, corruption and politics
• 17 November 2022 | Fair Work changes a Teal deal-breaker
• 30 October 2022 | Spotlight on 7 radical Right-wing leaders worldwide
• 27 October 2022 | Democracy in danger: The rise of Right-wing demagogues
• 23 September 2022 | Industrial scale cheating taking over from learning in Australian universities
• 20 September 2022 | Ukraine war: Putin takes losses, vows to make a comeback
• 13 September 2022 | Queen's death stirs media frenzy, prompts questions for Australia's future
• 4 September 2022 | Gorbachev gave peace a chance — Putin put war on the agenda
• 17 August 2022 | Governor-General should be accountable for role in Morrison scandal
• 15 May 2022 | Morrison's 'economic' trash-talking is out of order
• 11 May 2022 | Political warfare in the suburbs — profile on Brisbane
• 9 May 2022 | Let Scotty shout through a debate on a fairer playing field
• 8 April 2022 | Elections in Europe — Amid Ukraine agony, Russia still finds support
• 9 March 2022 | Putin upscales Russia's information war
• 1 March 2022 | Dud UK-based media index lauds News Corp and bashes ABC, SBS and IA
• 25 February 2022 | Ukraine: Three decades after the Cold War, back to open conflict
• 1 February 2022 | Election polls reveal Morrison slipping
• 30 January 2022 | Fact-based journalists under fire
• 27 January 2022 | USA and Europe react to Russian moves against Ukraine
• 11 December 2021 | New Caledonia to cast final vote on independence
• 10 December 2021 | Australia bows down to America for nuclear submarines
• 26 November 2021 | Liberal Party's bloody history forgotten as Morrison cries freedom
• 15 October 2021 | Football season a big win despite pandemic fears
• 13 October 2021 | Coalition complacency worsened NSW COVID winter
• 5 October 2021 | Liberal Party trashing its own reputation
• 2 October 2021 | The risky business behind Morrison's submarine deal
• 11 July 2021 | Campaign to save Queensland Uni's union complex cuts through
• 3 June 2021 | Government spins and fiddles with ideology as the pandemic crisis worsens
• 14 May 2021 | The Morrison clown show goes on
• 10 March 2021 | World travellers: Back to the future after COVID-19
• 16 January 2021 | Australia’s business-driven travel policy leaves thousands stranded
• 13 January 2021 | 6 January 2021: America's new 'day of infamy'
• 10 January 2021 | An open letter to President Donald Trump after inciting domestic terrorism
• 18 December 2020 | Joe Biden confirmed: Time to see what Trump will do
• 12 November 2020 | Donald Trump is still good for troublemaking
• 9 November 2020 | Trump out: Weekend 'good riddance' celebrations in USA
• 6 November 2020 | Queensland poll rejected race 'dog whistles' in media
• 2 November 2020 | Labor wins in Queensland, voters playing it safe on virus
• 28 October 2020 | COVID-19 or not: Victoria's cracker weekend
• 23 October 2020 | How the media will affect the Queensland Election outcome
• 19 October 2020 | The battle for Queensland and the pandemic — play it safe or 'let ‘er rip'
• 14 October 2020 | Queensland Election: Youth crime and race get politicised in Townsville
• 9 October 2020 | New Caledonia again votes ‘No’ — tension in the air
• 25 September 2020 | Donald Trump doing it tough down in Dixie
• 11 September 2020 | Politics of COVID-19: Partisan manoeuvres on the Right wing
• 8 August 2020 | What happens if Donald Trump gets beaten in November?
• 1 August 2020 | The war on the ABC and its options for survival
• 30 July 2020 | Neoliberal invasion of the ABC
• 24 June 2020 | Proposed university changes undercut value of education
• 12 June 2020 | Trouble in America: The Bible probably won't save Donald Trump
• 31 May 2020 | News Corp's closing of newspapers a blow to Australian communities
• 29 May 2020 | High Court ruling on the Palace letters could bear explosive consequences
• 22 May 2020 | Media wars are heating up in contempt for President Trump
• 15 May 2020 | COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to the 'billionaire class'
• 29 April 2020 | An open letter to Scott Morrison over COVIDSafe app concerns
• 10 April 2020 | Popularity of the cruise ship industry is sinking
• 1 April 2020 | COVID-19: Australians must be prepared for the worst
• 21 March 2020 | Neoliberalism in a time of coronavirus
• 5 March 2020 | COVID-19 hitting the hip-pocket nerve in Australia
• 15 February 2020 | BOOK REVIEW: Palembang to Pine Gap — the CIA, JFK and Whitlam
• 11 February 2020 | Coronavirus vs the 'Spanish flu': Fighting off influenza is the battle of centuries
• 23 January 2020 | Coalition Government's $2 billion climate fund could attract more problems
• 9 January 2020 | World's media derision for Scott Morrison over bushfire crisis
• 4 January 2020 | Questions for Scott Morrison after deserting a nation in need of leadership
• 3 January 2020 | #1 TOP STORY OF 2019: 'We’re fed up and we will not obey you': Rebellion strikes cities across the world
• 20 December 2019 | Bushfires and politics: Scene-setters for an Australian Christmas
• 4 December 2019 | Hope for peace in Bougainville while West Papua endures
• 21 November 2019 | Impeachment moves against Trump: Getting it out in public
• 17 November 2019 | 'We’re fed up and we will not obey you': Rebellion strikes cities across the world
• 6 November 2019 | UK Election: British voters’ stark choice over the kind of country they want
• 14 October 2019 | Not much grandeur at the grand finals
• 10 October 2019 | Impeachment moves against Trump: Republicans scramble to fight back
• 27 September 2019 | Donald, Boris and Scott have a wild week in the U.S.
• 5 September 2019 | Brexit: The strings of democracy being pulled by royalty
• 28 August 2019 | Bizarre Boris at Biarritz while pressing on towards hard-landing Brexit
• 25 August 2019 | The Hong Kong protests haunted by dangerous precedents
• 16 August 2019 | Battles at Queensland University: Starting to look like conflicts of the past
• 5 August 2019 | The Temporary Exclusion Bill and 'career bigot' Raheem Kassam
• 3 July 2019 | Israel Folau, contract law and discrimination
• 26 June 2019 | “Brexit” Boris to join Trump and Morrison in the conservative leaders' club
• 29 May 2019 | European elections and the Brexit effect
• 22 May 2019 | Election 2019: Post mortems reveal what happened is no mystery
• 17 May 2019 | Election 2019: How to ignore the noise so you can make a sensible vote
• 15 May 2019 | Election 2019: A clash of minds
• 9 May 2019 | Media: Beat up about the Senate beating up Labor?
• 24 April 2019 | Election 2019: Sorting out balderdash
• 16 April 2019 | Notre Dame: 'A deep wound … can be healed'
• 12 April 2019 | Last efforts in Brussels to help the British get out of Europe?
• 9 April 2019 | ELECTION 2019: Putting a price on the media campaigns
• 29 March 2019 | Brexit log jam in London: New plans, same problem
• 25 March 2019 | NSW vote heats up the fight for Canberra
• 20 March 2019 | Christchurch attack: Shaky minds, guns and the internet
• 16 March 2019 | One week of warfare, yet Brexit unresolved
• 14 March 2019 | The gaoling of Cardinal George Pell
• 13 March 2019 | Brexit: Is there an end in sight?
• 9 March 2019 | After Pell fell: Millions looking for reform and change
• 20 February 2019 | United States: Looking for a coalition against Trump
• 16 February 2019 | Tough trade talks with European negotiators who broke the Brits over Brexit
• 6 February 2019 | The world's wild week: Floods, fires and blizzards in a time of climate change
• 23 January 2019 | Leave the Matildas alone
• 5 January 2019 | Media shake-up and the coming Federal election
• 20 December 2018 | Are the Liberals really done for?
• 12 December 2018 | British walk-out from Europe has been a long time coming
• 11 December 2018 | British Brexit mess over Europe
• 3 December 2018 | Fake ‘Queenslander’ Scott Morrison misses the bus on the bushfires
• 29 November 2018 | MEAA puts pressure on embattled ABC Board members
• 26 November 2018 | Victoria votes: Liberals with a lot to learn from Menzies
• 22 November 2018 | APEC wars: No communique of idiocy
• 13 November 2018 | The Armistice: 'Ancient demons coming to the surface'
• 7 November 2018 | New Caledonia referendum signals start of a new campaign
• 3 November 2018 | New Caledonia Referendum: 'Vivre Ensemble' vs'Chez Nous'
• 1 November 2018 | Media kills and remakes cricket
• 8 October 2018 | On the nose Brett Kavanaugh squeezed through as U.S. Supreme Court judge
• 6 October 2018 | ABC crisis at the top: Will the Board members please tell?
• 1 October 2018 | Sensational climax for finals footy
• 27 September 2018 | Your ABC story: Two sackers get sacked — next whole Board may go
• 26 September 2018 | Grand Finals time - the NRL says “game on” for Billy Slater
• 25 September 2018 | Sacking of the ABC chief: Dangerous times
• 30 August 2018 | New Caledonia: Do the French public want to “set it free”?
• 25 August 2018 | Looming showdown in Trump versus law and media
• 28 July 2018 | Vanuatu digs in on Chinese presence — Foreign Minister says it’s “great”
• 27 July 2018 | Taking a stand on media freedom in the Pacific
• 24 July 2018 | New Caledonia Independence Referendum: Not angry for nothing
• 19 July 2018 | The economic impact of UK's exit on Australia
• 17 July 2018 | Football victory for France reverberates worldwide
• 6 July 2018 | Independence vote in New Caledonia looks set to reaffirm French rule
• 22 June 2018 | Telstra and the ABC in neoliberal Australia: No longer for everybody
• 25 May 2018 | Government attacks on the ABC reveal conflict over Australia’s future
• 11 May 2018 | Telling the Budget story: The devil not in the detail, it's in the big picture
• 4 May 2018 | The Right's war on cafe latte
• 26 April 2018 | Anzac Day popularity stronger a century after it all began
• 20 April 2018 | The fat cat is out of the bag: Time to reform the whole banking system
• 18 April 2018 | Cyber war: Russia not playing by the rules, if there are any rules
• 17 April 2018 | The plus-and-minus Commonwealth Games
• 7 April 2018 | Black power, the media and the Commonwealth Games
• 6 April 2018 | Not many Likes for Facebook this week
• 3 April 2018 | High stakes commerce and the end of cricket?
• 25 March 2018 | An inquiry into the future: Facing the digital avalanche in mass communication
• 24 March 2018 | A stand for journalistic freedom: Facing the digital avalanche in mass communication
• 23 March 2018 | Enter the 'Third Estate': Facing the digital avalanche in mass communication
• 13 March 2018 | Changes in the bush: Breaking the drought on Barnaby-style bluster
• 6 March 2018 | Facing up to hardship in the Pacific
• 26 February 2018 | Three billboards outside New England: I, Barnaby
• 16 February 2018 | The Barnaby Affair: Are the Liberals up to making him go?
• 4 February 2018 | #CabinetFiles: Who got the files together, why and how were they leaked
• 18 January 2018 | Two small primary schools and their mottos: A case study
• 11 January 2018 | Australian universities must eschew narrow fixation on jobs
• 26 December 2017 | Year-end round up 2017: What on Earth is happening?
• 8 December 2017 | Labor wins majority in Queensland — but now faces fresh challenges
• 26 November 2017 | #QldVotes: A split on the conservative side helps Labor win
• 21 November 2017 | Queensland election: Labor’s to lose?
• 15 November 2017 | Blowing up the Parliament: Can a Coalition-Labor citizenship deal work?
• 21 October 2017 | Australian universities under threat from creeping corporatisation
• 13 October 2017 | Marriage equality on the streets of Randwick: Is this the way it will go?
• 10 October 2017 | Dumbing down Australia: Conservative forces seek to block new media and ABC
• 3 October 2017 | Grand final victories: Melbourne Storm, Penrith Panthers and Richmond Tigers
• 25 September 2017 | Cowboys win: Keeping North Queensland on the map
• 23 September 2017 | Deciding your vote on ‘same sex marriage’ — one more view
• 21 September 2017 | Malcolm Turnbull’s struggle to be Bob Menzies
• 1 May 2017 | French Presidential elections: A legacy of corruption