
Gladys Berejiklian’s downfall: A self-inflicted tragedy
She did not trouser any bribes. But the evidentiary leads soon to be exposed by the New South Wales Independent Commission Against...

Communications Minister Paul Fletcher threatens to sack Ita Buttrose
The ABC board has until December 15 to respond to a formal letter from Communications Minister Paul Fletcher seeking answers to his...

Quentin Dempster: Broadcasters say govt’s TV ‘rescue plan’ isn’t ready for prime time
Australia’s commercial free-to-air TV networks, both metropolitan and regional, are haemorrhaging audiences and money. A Green paper released on Friday by Communications...

‘So much for a level playing field’: Google, Facebook to pay for news, but not from ABC, SBS
All Australian news media entities, with the exception of the ABC and SBS, are to be given the power to force global...

‘Over to you, Ita’: The ABC’s five-year plan is spin for managed decline
Ita Buttrose and her ABC board have produced a glossy five-year plan to cover up the fact the ABC is in accelerating...

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...