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.
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Paul Barry to Stephen Conroy: roam wasn’t built in a day, but fix it
Optus and its fellow phone companies blame those pesky foreign companies for charging outrageous rates. But …
READ MOREMedia briefs: Age exits mount … Kyle dodges ACMA … Hun’s VicRoads howler …
In today’s Media Briefs: Hun’s VicRoads howler II. … Front Page of the Day … The Department of Corrections … Conroy says Whirlpool more accurate than AFR … Obama, Critic-in-Chief of the news …
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Facebook at centre of convergence
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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.
READ MORENews Ltd versus Gillard: a tale of two letters
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.
READ MOREConroy’s common sense
Some sensible talk from Communications Minister Stephen Conroy in the wake of the weekend’s Melbourne state byelection.
READ MOREDavid Feeney zeroes in on PM’s prized Victorian seat
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.
READ MOREConroy making history with public interest test
If the Gillard government stares down the nation’s media bosses and introduces a public interest test for media ownership that’s tough, effective and free from political interference, it will be the first government in the world to do so.
READ MORESimons: review says Finkelstein got regs diagnosis right, prescription wrong
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.
READ MOREIdiot’s Guide to the Convergence Review: the principles
So the Convergence Review report is big — very big, in number of pages and in implications.
READ MOREDecoding the Convergence Review
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.
READ MOREConvergence Report lands, but media groups just couldn’t wait
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.
READ MOREConroy the big mover in a week of poor polling
Plenty of upward movement this week as ALP ministers moved to diffuse the damage caused by poor polling .
READ MORERudd & Oz Network saga: everyone cast ‘in a poor light’
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.
READ MORESchembri watch … mapping media … Apple’s story …
In Montana, Texas and Mississippi they love Republican flag-waver Fox News. In Hawaii, Idaho, North Dakota and Iowa it’s liberal-leaning MSNBC. Plus other media news of the day in today’s media briefs.
READ MOREThe .xxx domain is here to stay, but Conroy could still block it
There was a legitimate reason for my attendance at the launch party for S-xpo, the “s-xuality lifestyle expo”, in Sydney Wednesday night: the sponsor of this bacchanalia was the company behind the new .xxx internet domain for adult sites.
READ MOREFollow the Power: big dollars for new NGV boss … footy billionaire soapie … Conroy smiles …
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.
READ MOREEvidence of how politicians lie
From the BBC comes a report exposing just how politicians have lied to their constituents…
READ MOREIt’s a big if, but Gina Rinehart could set Fairfax agenda
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.
READ MOREComplaints to Press Council double — so will it beef up?
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.
READ MOREThe 2011 Crikeys: our best and worst politicians
Who are our best and worst political performers for the year? The award goes to …
READ MOREThe death knell of the US democratic republic
Crikey readers have their say.
READ MOREStephen Conroy: reshaping our media landscape
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.
READ MOREWhy Stephen Conroy swearing on TV was f#@%ing fantastic!
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.
READ MOREWithout him, there would be no NBN
What Stephen Conroy wants, Stephen Conroy gets. Right now that means we’re all paying for the infrastructure needed to create the National Broadband Network, whether we want it or not, writes Angela Priestley.
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