Quentin Dempster
So much for diversity in Australia’s media as BuzzFeed exits
Two years after Australia’s competition watchdog green lighted the biggest consolidation of media ownership here in more than 40 years, the withdrawal...
Malcolm Turnbull’s talks with church leaders reveal what is wrong with private school funding
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has detailed private conversations with a Catholic Church leader to substantiate claims that the church has been...
ACCC expecting Google and Facebook lawsuits as Australia’s newspapers declared ‘terminal’
With Australians about to lose their local and metropolitan newspaper coverage, the competition watchdog sent to the rescue is facing the prospect...
‘The wrong project in the wrong place’: Malcolm Turnbull’s Snowy 2.0 vision comes at a huge cost
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull’s vision for the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme to power Australia’s renewable energy future looks like coming...
New nuclear arms race brings higher risk of global catastrophe
The world is at its highest risk of a global catastrophe in decades, thanks to an unpredictable resumption in the nuclear arms...
Australia ranks last in affordable broadband
Australia is coming last in affordability rankings for entry-level broadband services. Of developed (OECD) nations, Australia is at 36th. Japan is first,...
NSW budget takes a big hit from property and GST slump
New South Wales is confronting the largest revenue write-downs in its history. On Tuesday, its usually lucrative property stamp duties, the state’s...
Poor Ita Buttrose: The future of her ABC is now at stake in this election
Poor Ita. National treasure Ita Buttrose has taken the chairmanship of the ABC at a crucial time in its history. If the...
‘Sack Alberici, shoot Probyn’: ABC political interference driven by funding fears
A Senate inquiry into allegations of political interference at the ABC has concluded that a fear of funding cuts was behind pressures...
How the Liberals made a demon of Daley to win the election
After it became clear she would retain power in New South Wales, a triumphant Premier Gladys Berejiklian last night declared: “The Liberal...