Australian governments have long been hostile to media freedom. That's unlikely to change any time soon
- Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
The unprecedented blackout of front pages by Australia’s newspaper publishers this week is a highly significant event in Australian political and media history.
It represents the completion of a deep rupture in the relationship between government and media, which for many decades was marked by a preparedness on the part of the media to take...
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