While the architect of Australia鈥檚 detention system Liberal Senator Jim Molan was rehearsing his lines to promote this cruel system on ABC鈥檚 Q&A, a woman was arrested for the crime of standing outside and peacefully holding a banner reading 鈥淐lose the Camps, Bring Them Here鈥.
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Unions have condemned the federal government's decision to cut a further $84 million from funding for the ABC in the federal budget announced on May 8.
The budget confirmed the government has frozen the indexation of ABC funding to effectively cut that amount over three years. These latest cuts come on top of the $254 million the Coalition government has already removed from the ABC's revenue since 2014.
聽has formally requested that the聽聽prosecutor investigate the targeting of journalists in Gaza as war crimes.
An international group of intellectuals and activists are demanding media corporations report on the May 20 Venezuelan elections in a more balanced and honest way, instead of reproducing the single narrative that is being spread by most media outlets.
The United Nations has declared May 3 as World Press Freedom Day. But one place where there is still聽no press freedom is Indonesian-occupied West Papua.
If the federal government is convinced its proposed corporate tax cuts will bring happiness all around, why is it so worried about those challenging the idea?
Labor backbencher Michael Danby charged taxpayers $4574 for two advertisements in The Australian Jewish News attacking the ABC's coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The MP for Melbourne Ports, who has long been an outspoken defender of Israel, used his parliamentary communications allowance to fund the ads.
One advertisement accused ABC journalist Sophie McNeill of covering the eviction of a Palestinian family but ignoring the murder of three Jewish settlers by a Palestinian.
Palestinians and media groups have condemned Israel鈥檚 raid on of 11 Palestinian telecom and production companies in the occupied West Bank on October 18, which have since been shut down.
called on authorities to stop their harassment of Palestinian media, as well as for Israeli forces to release the two journalists arrested in the raids in the West Bank.
鈥淒on鈥檛 let the 麻豆传媒 Weekly have its own way,鈥 was the headline of Murdoch columnist Miranda Devine in a June 14 , and my first thought was: 鈥淪he鈥檚 right.鈥
Melbourne is known for good coffee, horrible weather, Australian Rules football and militant unions. Since 1974, community radio station 3CR has been a supporting beam in the city鈥檚 radical infrastructure.
麻豆传媒 Radio, like all 120 programs on the station鈥檚 schedule, are calling on listeners and supporters to donate to the annual 3CR Radiothon and keep the signal strong on their June 16 show.
Venezuela has been rocked in recent weeks by almost daily protests and counter-protests, as right-wing opponents of socialist President Nicolas Maduro seek to bring down his government.
While the media portrays these events as a popular rebellion against an authoritarian government, supporters of the pro-poor Bolivarian revolution initiated by former president Hugo Chavez say the country is witnessing an escalation in what is an ongoing counter-revolutionary campaign seeking to restore Venezuela鈥檚 traditional elites in power and reverse the gains made by the poor majority under Chavez and Maduro.
Media coverage encouraged and inflamed Britain鈥檚 referendum campaign on whether to leave the European Union last year to make it the 鈥渕ost divisive, hostile, negative and fear-provoking鈥 in British history, according to a new report.
King鈥檚 College London鈥檚 Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power (CMCP) analysed more than 15,000 articles published online by 20 national news outlets. It found the media coverage 鈥渁crimonious and divisive鈥 and dominated by 鈥渙verwhelmingly negative鈥 reports about the consequences of migration to Britain.
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