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The media is fundamentally incapable of properly reporting on climate change

The immediate nature of news media means it is, by definition, woefully ill-equipped to raise the alarm about the threat of climate change.

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The government's war on the press has been years in the making

Since passing metadata retention laws in 2015, the government has been hard at work gunning for journalists. The AFP's demand for Qantas to hand over personal travel records should not be surprising.

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Suicide cannot be made a front in the culture war

A poorly researched article by Bettina Arndt shows how the right is turning male suicide into yet another aspect of Australia's culture wars.

Tax cuts coverage ignored substance, focused on trivia

When it came to covering the most important change in our income tax system for decades, the media focused on political trivia at the expense of hard analysis.

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Don't expect much press freedom from the politicians

There's little political will to do anything of substance in relation to media freedom. And the media has been its own worst enemy as basic rights have been eroded.

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We need to throw out defamation law and start again

The law is a blunt tool we wield to decide arguments that have no obvious answer. But, in the digital age, it has to be sharper than this.

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All aboard the Boris bus: how the media fuelled the would-be PM

Boris Johnson's career has been endlessly propelled by the media’s self-flagellating narrative of 'charm' and 'inevitability'.

Ash Barty in her first round win at Wimbledon. (Image: Susan Mullane/USA TODAY)

Ash Barty stuff-up the latest lowlight for Seven's blokey management

Seven's failure to screen Ash's Barty's first-round match at Wimbledon is a symptom of a bigger problem.

How much does it cost to remove a managing director of the ABC?

Sacking ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie was never going to be cheap. But new documents reveal what the the lawyers alone cost.

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'Don't ever again allow politicians to diminish the public broadcaster'

Kerry O'Brien's full Logies speech on the 'failures of politics, failures of journalism, and failures of society'.