By Mark Bahnisch on November 10, 2009
At politicalowl, Richard Farmer quotes Gary Morgan on the Newspoll released today, which asked questions about the Prime Minister’s handling of asylum seekers but which also included questions about voting intention. But the results of those questions were not printed [...]
Posted in Ethics, Immigration, Media, Polls | Tagged abc, asylum seekers, boat people, crisis, Gary Morgan, Media, News Limited, Newspoll, Nielsen, Polls, refugees, SBS, The Australian |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 13, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/rudd-sorry-apology.jpg" align=left When Mick Dodson was announced as Australian of the Year, I made this observation: [It] might also be a good idea to take some sort of stock on how the whole “Bridging the Gap” thing is going [...]
Posted in Activism, Indigenous, Media, Policy | Tagged anniversary, Apology, bridging the gap, closing the gap, Crikey, Indigenous, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous policy, Jon Altman, Kevin Rudd, Media, Mick Dodson, SBS, Sorry Day, stolen generations |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 25, 2009
As a bit of a sequel to Helen’s post on Radio National’s travails, I wanted to draw attention to the public consultation initiated by DBCDE on the government’s inquiry into the future of the ABC and SBS. For those who [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Culture, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged abc, ARC, Axel bruns, broadcasting, citizen journalism, citizenship, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, DBCDE, future of abc, future of sbs, innovation, internet, Jason Wilson, media policy, public broadcasting, QUT, research, review, SBS, social innovation, social media, Sociology, stephen conroy, Stuart Cunningham, Terry Flew, universality, user generated content, web, YouDecide2007 |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 17, 2008
It’s a bit of a hard ask to keep up with all the policy reviews the Rudd government has initiated. And they appear to be in the habit of releasing the results or closing deadlines for submissions well into the [...]
Posted in Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Policy | Tagged abc, creative industries, digital futures, inquiry, public broadcasting, QUT, review, Rudd government, SBS, stephen conroy, submissions, Terry Flew, user generated content |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 21, 2008
There’s been a fair bit of discussion around here from time to time about the Rudd government’s proposals for ensuring merit based appointments to the boards of ABC and SBS, a matter of quite a deal of interest because of [...]
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Media, Politics | Tagged abc, abc board, alan fels, board appointments, Culture Wars, david gonski, Janet Albrechtsen, keith windschuttle, leneen forde, public broadcasting, ric smith, ron brunton, Rudd government, SBS, sbs board, selection panel, stephen conroy, Terry Moran |
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