Insiders say a Sunday Telegraph alleging Paul Keating’s daughter kicked and threatened to kill one of its photographers was at best a beat-up, and at-worst a total fabrication.
Privacy laws
PODCAST: Michael Kirby: Why privacy matters
“In the age of the internet, stories that once would have been wrapping the fish and chips and forgotten a few weeks or months or years later
are preserved forever,” says former High Court justice Michael Kirby in this speech for Privacy Victoria.
Is Della Bosca’s sex life really a public interest story?
With The Daily Tele’s eagerness to break the John Della Bosca sex scandal and destroy his political career, what will this mean for future issues involving politicians, privacy and matters of public interest?
Privacy case costs News of the World almost £1m
Defending a story they ran about F1 boss Max Mosley’s sex life has cost the News of the World almost £1m.
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.
Hanson: Media Watch ‘dangerous’, Press Council waits
Last night’s Media Watch program suggested John Hartigan’s campaign against proposed privacy legislation had been undermined by the publication of the nude “Pauline Hanson” photos, writes Margaret Simons.
Privacy is not in the interests of the Labor Party
Putting aside the systemic breach of privacy that a database like Electrac entails, it relies on the goodwill and maturity of MPs and their staff to ensure that such a database isn’t abused, writes Bernard Keane.
Right to privacy sends media into a spin
The Australian Law Reform Commission has thrown down the gauntlet to two of Australia’s most powerful entities in its report on privacy, launched by John Faulkner and Robert McClelland in Sydney this morning, writes Bernard Keane.
