Recent publications in IPA Review article
Why the press gallery failed us, and why they will again
One of the most revealing stories in modern Australian politics comes from James Button-a speechwriter for Kevin Rudd for a short time in 2009. Button's recent and fascinating book, Speechless: A year in my father's business, details the now...
Where's ABC?
The Federal Government's reappointments to the board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation put a political showpiece ahead of corporate commonsense. In an attempt to demonstrate that it could go where no other government had gone...
Is Facebook making our kids violent?
Moral panic is never too far away from the Australian media. The widespread claims that the internet is corrupting youth and encouraging violent behaviour completely misunderstands technology, the people who use it and the nature of crime itself....
Regretting privatisation: broadband and the 2007 election
From the Editor, July 2007
It's not often that the conservative federal government and the ABC's Media Watch work together. But the two find common cause on free speech and the internet. The Communications Legislation Amendment (Content Services) Bill 2007 is...
Big Brother vs Big Brother
SiCKO: Michael Moore's latest fantasy
How the Panama Canal was built: A regulatory fable
It's still their ABC
The other flurry of media mergers
The media is big business. And the media online is just as big.