Australian Media Reform and the Need For Decency

Australian politics huh? Can’t live with it, past the beer nuts.

Yesterday the Prime Minister was called a “Moll” during parliament question time in the House of Representatives and today we have the charming front page of Sydney’s Daily Telegraph in which Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy has been compared to Stalin, Mao and Castro among other despots.

Why? Because the government formally responded to the Convergence Review and Finkelstein Inquiry, which was commissioned by the government during the height of the Leveson Inquiry into the media in the UK and the shocking revelations that were camet to light during that investigation.

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