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10 years after Finkelstein, media accountability in Australia has gone backwards

  • Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
10 years after Finkelstein, media accountability in Australia has gone backwardsAAP/Lukas Coch

In September, it will be ten years since the Gillard government established the Independent Inquiry into Media and Media Regulation in Australia, otherwise known as the Finkelstein inquiry. In the succeeding decade, media accountability in Australia has, if anything, got weaker.

The latest sign of this is the decision last week by the...

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