The media as a whole have got to get over their desperate paranoia, writes Roger Clark, chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation
Australian Law Reform Commission
How the media will react to a right to privacy
Belatedly, the government is acting on a longstanding recommendation about a right to privacy. But it’s a little hypocritical.
The gaping hole where a right to privacy should be
The phone-hacking scandal may have been hidden by Rupert Murdoch’s power, but its origins lay in the lack of a right to privacy.
Federal government on privacy: do as I say, not as I do
The federal government is threatening to impose tighter laws on corporations over privacy breaches. But it’s not in a position of moral authority …
Surveillance: an unregulated part of our everyday lives?
There are concerns that because the line between genuine news and entertainment has become blurred, surveillance isn’t always carried out in the public interest, writes Neil Rees.
Media freedom: Where do Liberal and Labor stand?
The Prime Minister has hinted that during the campaign he will release a couple of modest reforms in order to free up restrictions on journalists and increase the public’s access to information. So what would the Coalition need to do to match what the ALP is now touting as policy? Andrew Dodd reports.
Moves to define “journalism” in the eyes of the law
Astonishingly there is no definition of journalism in Australian law. That’s one of the revelations in the ALRC’s paper on privacy law reform and it’s of great relevance because the Commission wants to define journalism in a way that will reduce the media’s capacity to report freely.
