Tag Archives: Media

BOURKE: All quiet on the Western Front

By Tracker, May 7, 2013
The front cover of Tracker's May 2013 edition.

NATIONAL: Steven Ronayne knows a fair bit about danger. He was born and bred in Bourke, a small community of less than 3,000 in the far north west of New South Wales.

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BACKTRACKER: Tell me no truth

By Tracker, August 16, 2012
The sign announcing the entrance to Toomelah.

NATIONAL: Journalism should be fair and accurate. Both tenets of journalism are missing at Stephen Hagan’s Indigenous Times, writes BRIAN JOHNSTONE*.

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BAD AUNTY: The truth about the NT intervention and the case for an independent media

By Tracker, July 30, 2012
Bad Aunty

NATIONAL: The Australian media has been in decline for a very long time, argues CHRIS GRAHAM*.

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The truth about Toomelah

By Tracker, July 5, 2012
The sign announcing the entrance to Toomelah.

NATIONAL: The tiny NSW town of Toomelah has made headlines, and once again it’s because of poverty and community dysfunction. CHRIS GRAHAM takes an in-depth look at the town, and a bad government policy that, above all others, has set the community back decades.

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Part of the solution, part of the problem

By Tracker, July 4, 2012
Natalie Ahmat, NITV News presenter.

NATIONAL: Aboriginal affairs in Australia is paved with the corpses of people with good intentions. Some of them are bureaucrats. Some of them are politicians, writes CHRIS GRAHAM.

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Canberra Times to focus on local news

By Tracker, June 21, 2012
The Canberra Times.

NATIONAL: Journalists at the Fairfax-owned Canberra Times have been told their future reporting focus will be on more local news, a source says.

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INSIDE THE TENT: The ‘behind the scenes’ story of the Tent Embassy debacle

By Chris Graham, February 13, 2012
A file image of three of the original Tent Embassy founders.

NATIONAL: Some believe the debacle that engulfed the Tent Embassy 40th anniversary celebrations in Canberra last month set back the Aboriginal cause a decade or two. CHRIS GRAHAM thinks its opened up an opportunity for a conversation about the future of Aboriginal protest.

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AFP probing News Ltd over offer to senator

By Tracker, November 23, 2011

NATIONAL: Australian Federal Police is investigating whether News Ltd offered a former Nationals senator favourable coverage if he voted a certain way on proposed media laws.

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Media criticised for ‘lack of diversity’

By Tracker, November 17, 2011

NATIONAL: There is a lack of diversity in the Australian media with only a couple of players holding the megaphone, an inquiry into the media has heard.

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News Ltd ‘may charge for online content’

By Tracker, November 10, 2011

NATIONAL: Changes at the top of News Limited suggest all its papers will soon begin charging readers for online content, former Herald Sun editor Bruce Guthrie believes.

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