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Australian journalism needs more than better protection, it needs better standards

  • Written by Andrew Podger, Honorary Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University

Australia may be leading the world in measures to protect public interest journalism from the threats arising from media restructuring and news aggregators such as Google and Facebook, but it has yet to properly address the related need for firm professional standards.

At the moment the Australian Press Council deals with complaints about the print...

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  11. Building more houses quickly is harder than it looks. Australia hasn't done it in decades
  12. Consumers are wise to ‘woke washing’ – but truly ‘transformative branding’ can still make a difference
  13. Between the lines, Morrison's plan has coal on the way out, with the future bright
  14. Now it's Liberals telling us we are going to have to cut the capital gains tax concession if we want to get Australians into homes
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