Keywords: Media Diversity
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 29 January 2008
Recently elected Jesuit Superior General Fr Adolfo Nicolás briefed journalists earlier this week. While a comparison with a recent speech of Pope Benedict points to a difference in method, there is a singleness of purpose.
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AUSTRALIA
- Luke James
- 19 September 2007
2 Comments
Coverage of the South Pacific Games was dominated by an Australian reporter posing a loaded question about RAMSI to the Samoan prime minister. It's a reminder that much remains to be done to positively promote the diversity and spirit of the region.
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AUSTRALIA
- Scott Stephens
- 08 August 2007
5 Comments
The press coverage of Iraq’s surprise victory in the Asian Cup final was — as Ernst Bloch might have put it — full of utopian sentiment. The win was, admittedly, a remarkable achievement, but one that hardly accounted for the sheer exuberance of the outpoured emotion that followed.
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AUSTRALIA
- Greg O'Kelly
- 02 April 2007
3 Comments
Australia is ranked 29th internationally in the teaching of maths and science. To suggest that a national curriculum would raise such a ranking is a non sequitur. Curriculum is about content. It's standards that refer to performance measurement.
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian McCoy
- 24 December 2006
2 Comments
It was one thing for some of our politicians to reveal that they clearly misunderstand Aboriginal people and their culture. It is quite another thing when a reporter goes to live in a community for ten days and thinks she got the measure of 'the cultural and social issues at play'. From 22 August 2006.
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MEDIA
- Margaret Cassidy
- 13 November 2006
1 Comment
New media extended the life and added an additional dimension to the continued use of a range of old media, in the lead up to this month’s mid-term congressional elections in the United States.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 30 October 2006
John Howard seems to have pulled off the three-card trick, on both the National Party and the public, with changes to the media laws. His spin was that the small concessions were worth it in its efforts to "free up'' Australia's media.
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian McCoy
- 21 August 2006
12 Comments
It was one thing for some of our politicians to reveal that they clearly misunderstand Aboriginal people and their culture. It is quite another thing when a reporter goes to live in a community for ten days and thinks she got the measure of 'the cultural and social issues at play'.
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AUSTRALIA
Technology has changed human relationships, argues Rufus Black.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Delia Falconer
- 06 July 2006
Are we writing too many of them? Is there a crisis of relevance in Austlit? No, argues Delia Falconer.
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INFORMATION
- Michael McKernan, Frank O’Shea, Mark Deasey, Morag Fraser, John Carmody, Brigid Hains, Pip Robertson
- 03 July 2006
Peace drums, Irish visitor, Travellers’ tales, Epiphanies, Deep structure, Counter-terrorism kits, Circling the square
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RELIGION
- Abdullah Saeed
- 24 June 2006
September 11, 2001 changed the life of Muslims in the West, including Australia. Muslims in Australia today, their beliefs, values, practices and institutions, are under the microscope. There is a fear among many Muslims in Australia that is difficult to explain. In turn, Muslims are feared by many non-Muslim Australians, many of them Christians.
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