Quentin Dempster
PM’s anti-corruption commission is a picture of impotence
No public hearings? Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s proposed Commonwealth Integrity Commission is deeply flawed in its current conception under the authorship of...
ACCC’s Fairfax-Nine means less diversity and a new media baron
Competition regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, has green-lighted the death of Fairfax Media, the institution that has been a foundational...
News Corp takes aim at Google in algorithm war
It’s Google versus News Corp Australia in a battle to control the algorithms that drive search engine traffic. Billions in ad revenues are...
ABC: Frontrunners to replace Justin Milne emerge
The Morrison government is to appoint a new ABC chairman immediately as fallout continues over the sacking of managing director Michelle Guthrie....
ABC board chair Justin Milne being urged to resign
The Scott Morrison government and the ABC board are moving to pressure ABC chairman Justin Milne to resign as soon as possible....
Was there a political motive behind Michelle Guthrie sacking?
The unexpected sacking of ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie has raised one big question, among the many. Was there any political interference...
‘Because it’s wreck-able’: Anger mounting at decision to end Fairfax
The proposed end of Fairfax Media as an entity governing the editorial output of The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian...
News Corp rats on mates in press freedom protest
The Canberra Press Gallery’s protest that it would withdraw from media pool coverage of September’s Pacific Islands Forum in Nauru has become...
The new coalition that is really governing Australia
There’s a new coalition governing Australia. On Thursday it was personal tax cuts and the contentious elimination of the 37.5 per cent...
Our Glad’s NSW budget is a political power play
‘Our Glad’, otherwise known as New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian, has produced what looks like an election-winning budget. There’s another rude...