While we cannot afford any new programs or production staff, we continue to send the senior executives on unnecessary and overpriced overseas junkets, writes ABC insider ‘David’.
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SBS’s “ad islands” are an inconvenient truth for Senator Conroy
If Senator Conroy sticks to his guns and directs SBS to drop the in-program ads (the so-called “ad islands”) SBS could be the loser, dropping millions of dollars a year, writes Glenn Dyer.
The ABC gets off lightly at Senate Estimates
ABC Managing Director Mark Scott and the ABC had their easiest appearance at Senate Estimates for years, writes Glenn Dyer.
The Rudd Government silent on reforming cross media rules
After missing almost the entire election campaign because I was overseas I logged onto the ALP’s website today to check out the ALP’s new communications policy. To my horror I discovered it doesn’t have one. Somehow it managed to skate through an entire election campaign without announcing one.
IPA’s WiMax report is a double edged political sword
Labor is trying to make political capital out of an IPA paper that bags the Government’s plans for using WiMax technology for rural broadband. But they will be hoping said that no one reads the whole report, because there is plenty there to give Labor grief as well, writes Margaret Simons.
Coonan kicks own goals over ICT strategies
It was billed as the first debate of the not-quite-campaign. Two Senators confidently outlined their parties’ ICT strategies to the Australian Computer Society. Minister Helen Coonan was there too. Stilgherrian reports on the outcome.
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Shock: Conroy reveals policy detail worth $200 million
Labor’s spokesman for Media and Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy seems to have let slip some details of a central plank of Labor’s forthcoming election campaign in Brisbane last week.
