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The ALP is bracing for a nuclear fallout from the coming Ombudsman’s report into Darebin council, with fears that a bevy of councillors and prominent factional players will be accused of dubious activity that could cast a pall over the party’s northern suburbs membership base.

Optus and its fellow phone companies blame those pesky foreign companies for charging outrageous rates. But …

There’ll be growing pressure on governments to regulate social media like traditional media as more Australians use it. But Tony Abbott and the Coalition seem lost on the issue.

Yesterday, Bernard Keane untangled some of the false arguments behind opposition to a public interest test for media ownership. Today, David Salter reviews the parallel campaign against content regulation.

Labor Party warlords have begun to outline a succession plan in Julia Gillard’s seat of Lalor, with David Feeney leading all-comers to stake a claim at a byelection following a devastating federal election loss.

The Convergence Review Report has effectively concluded that Ray Finkelstein got the diagnosis right but the prescription wrong when he recommended statutory regulation for news media.

So the Convergence Review report is big — very big, in number of pages and in implications.

We’re creating a one-stop shop for you: short of reading the report yourself, Crikey’s idiot’s guide to the Convergence Review is the closest you’ll come to forming a bigger picture.

Even before they could be sure of precisely what it contained, many of those who claim to speak for the press in Australia were lining up to damn the Convergence Review released today, writes David Salter.

No sensible observer could deny that the protracted and aborted tender process for the Australia Network contract was a schemozzle from start to finish. The Auditor-General agrees, writes David Salter.

Frank Lowy hits back at Clive Palmer, Stephen Conroy gets a win, art world salaries ramp up and Clover Moore could be up against US-style primaries. Here’s a run-down of today’s power moves by Angela Priestley.

There never has been, and is never likely to be, a rule that says someone who owns a company is not entitled to run it as she sees fit, within the limits of the law.

Those who are inclined to write off the Press Council might be given pause by the fact that the number of complaints it receives has doubled since October.

Crikey readers have their say.

Stephen Conroy is the most powerful media maestro in Australia. Not so long ago Conroy was a powerful political fixer on the Labor Right. Nowadays he’s busy being a minister but still likes to get his way, writes Paul Barry.

Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, dropped the F word during the ABC’s live coverage of his National Press Club address. Expecting politicians not to swear is futile, writes Aidan Wilson.