Guest poster David Melzer of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia explains why now is a good time for the major political parties to support community broadcasting more
Articles tagged: media policy
From culture war to cultural democracy: it’s your ABC
Tony Moore provides a credible option for ending the terms of partisan appointments to the ABC board, and shows how we can rescue the public broadcasting debate from the culture wars. more
Media ownership: concentrate or perish
The only media owners capable of putting the public interest above their own are those who can afford to', argues Leonard McDonnell, so supporters of quality journalism should give up on diversity of media ownership. more
Knowers and sayers need to get it together
The 2004 Tsunami exposed a deep rift between our scientists and our communicators, writes Leonard McDonnell. We need to find new ways of getting information out of the journals and into the broadsheets if we are to reap the benefits of 'expert' knowledge and prevent more avoidable tragedies. more
DISCUSSION PAPER: Australia’s public broadcasters
In this draft discussion paper Emma Dawson and Miriam Lyons outline the basic principles that should underpin our public broadcasting policy, and suggest some ways to better equip the ABC and SBS to meet the needs of Australian citizens. more
INTRODUCTION: Ideas for an Australian media policy
The Centre for Policy Development is developing a series of discussion papers on media policy reform. In this introduction former Centre for Policy Development fellow Emma Dawson and current CPD Director Miriam Lyons argue that the failure to reinvent Australia’s media policy for a new media age is putting the health of our democracy at risk. more
The ABCs of protecting the Public Interest
Emma Dawson asks what it would take to ensure that our ABC remains in the service of the Australian public, rather than the Government. more
EDITORIAL: Telling Our Own Stories
Emma Dawson introduces a special edition on media policy more
Birt’s medicine has made the BBC ill
Georgina Born talks to the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism about the BBC's role in balancing Britain’s media ecology more