Quentin Dempster
‘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...
Australia builds an ‘Orwellian’ sledge hammer to crack down on foreign influence – and a lot more too
New laws to protect Australia’s democratic governance and economy are about to be determined, now with heightened fear about Chinese influence. Draft...
Only 4 cents a day: ABC Board plans public campaign
A meeting of the ABC board in Sydney on Thursday is expected to plan a roadshow campaign to take its case for...
Disneyland trips and more: Police called into ‘dot au’ dispute
Bitter faction fighting may soon force the Turnbull government to set up a statutory authority to take over the administration of Australia’s...
Position vacant: The NBN ‘death seat’
After Mike Quigley and Bill Morrow, who’s next for NBN Co’s CEO ‘death seat’? It can be called an executive death seat...
How Emma Alberici stared down the ABC on controversial article
After a bitter dispute, Emma Alberici has succeeded in getting the ABC to repost her ‘analysis’ of the Turnbull government’s tax cut plans...
Publish and be damned: The media’s ethical dilemmas on private lives
The Barnaby Joyce saga is far from over. Tony Windsor, Mr Joyce’s former opponent in his seat of New England, has tweeted...