Keywords: Public Broadcasting
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MEDIA
- Geoff Davies
- 07 February 2012
39 Comments
The misreporting of the Australia Day 'riot' is but one example of a growing nexus of hysteria, racism and ignorance in Australian media. It is time to rein in the increasing distortion of our social and political conversations, and require responsibility as well as freedom of speech.
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MEDIA
- Paul Collins
- 05 August 2011
22 Comments
Increasingly the ABC is 'outsourcing' material to commercial production companies. Interest group Friends of the ABC describes this as 'privatisation by stealth' and is calling for a public inquiry. All who value the ABC and its role as a public broadcaster need to support this call.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 07 April 2011
6 Comments
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 07 April 2011
In 2001 Collins resigned from priestly ministry because of a dispute with the Vatican over his book Papal Power. In the interview he discusses his views on the Church and its governance, as well as eco-theology.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 28 January 2011
4 Comments
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 28 January 2011
1 Comment
Eureka Street’s founding publisher Michael Kelly is one of the Australian Jesuits who had long discussed a journal of intelligent comment on topical issues in church and society. The models included long-running Jesuit publications overseas including America in the USA, established in 1909, and the The Month in Britain (1864-2001).
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 25 October 2010
2 Comments
There is credible speculation new part-owner James Packer will use his influence to kill innovation at Network Ten. The authority should respond by enforcing broadcast licence conditions, to ensure Packer's return to significant media ownership is in the public interest and not his self-interest.
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MEDIA
- Paul Collins
- 01 October 2009
27 Comments
Since the axing of The Religion Report, mainstream ABC news and current affairs programs have missed a range of important religious topics and events. It seems unlikely that General Manager Mark Scott will be able to maintain religion as a viable reality on the ABC.
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MEDIA
Bloggers
are being hunted and jailed in countries such as Burma and Iran. In Western nations they are incurring the wrath of disgruntled mainstream journalists. The plight of St Mary's South Brisbane holds a useful metaphor for this crusade on free speech.
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MEDIA
- Paul Collins
- 25 February 2009
29 Comments
The public response to the axing of The Religion Report and
other specialist programs late last year by ABC Radio National
management was astonishing. But the response of the ABC was abysmal. It is time to tell the whole story.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Collins
- 13 February 2009
12 Comments
Though the fires are still burning, the blaming has already begun, with environmentalists and academics pitted against rural people and firefighters. We have entered a new era of fires and will need to take a long, ecologically sensitive look at what has happend.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Collins
- 14 November 2008
2 Comments
SBS television has been called many things, including the 'sexual broadcasting
service', because of the risqué foreign language films that it shows. SBS radio is the ultimate melting pot, a symbol of an inclusive Australian
multiculturalism in which different languages and cultures are
respected.
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