Sarah Hanson-Young: “Today I introduced a Greens bill to establish a Royal Commission into the Murdoch media empire and the state of media diversity in Australia."
Malcolm Turnbull says
@guardian
is one of the world's great newspapers.
@GuardianAus
is a "left-ish newspaper" and is unlikely to urge a vote for a conservative party but they "don’t make stuff up, they check facts and they’re a professional outfit".
Australia Day: Rosie Batty slams Australia Day award winner Bettina Arndt.
“Former Australian of the Year Rosie Batty has also criticised the award and claims it throws the entire Australia Day and honours awards system into question.”
ABC chief David Anderson is up at senate estimates: He defends Louise Milligan and says the ABC’s role is to "hold publicly elected people and government generally, state or federal, to account, without fear or favour, regardless of which political party is in power".
From the family of Ash Good: "Overnight we have been shocked by some media publications reproducing photographs of Ashlee, her partner and our baby girl without our consent. It has caused extreme distress amongst Ashlee’s loved ones and we request that the photos be taken down."
The ABC won’t confirm it is planning part 2 of Inside the Canberra Bubble for Four Corners, but government sources say the broadcaster has asked for interviews ahead of another program to air as early as Monday. Unusually, Four Corners has not yet announced what's on.
The all-female "A Team" in Canberra via
@crikey_news
: "Samantha Maiden ; Katharine Murphy and Amy Remeikis
@GuardianAus
; Ten’s Tegan George; Karen Middleton from The Saturday Paper; Michelle Grattan, The Conversation; and Laura Tingle, Patricia Karvelas and Shalailah Medhora."
The
@australian
editorial gets down very low today: "Many senior people at The Australian know well the work, the habits and the hubris of Sally Neighbour and Louise Milligan."
Guardian Australia editor Lenore Taylor was asked by senators why climate change is so contentious in this country. She says it's because "climate science is portrayed as a matter of debate when it's not, it's a matter of science".
An indexation freeze meant the ABC had to get rid of 229 people and axe the 7.45am news bulletin but Coalition senators are arguing at
#estimates
that the ABC's funding has gone up. What a waste of time.
Shameful what's occurring in Victoria.
Effective dictatorship declared.
Devastating, destructive power of the state on full display.
Respect for the individual clearly irrelevant.
What's the point in being alive if you can't live?
Such wisdom in
@australian
: “Australia should consider a second national broadcaster to present an alternative outlook to the ABC, Cardinal George Pell believes.”
Former Age editor Andrew Jaspan says the two distinct voices of
@theage
and
@smh
under Fairfax Media have been reduced to a single voice controlled by an executive editor in Sydney; and is further diminished by "sitting within the walls of Channel 9".
#mediadiversityinquiry
News Corp boss Michael Miller: Scott Morrison was wrong today to claim an investigation is under way into a complaint accusing an employee of harassment against a woman in a female toilet. No complaint has been received and News Corp and Sky News are not dealing with a complaint.
The Alan Jones announcement of a new program delivered on a digital platform has hit its first hurdle. The press conference is almost inaudible. Lots of complaints on Facebook.
There are so many choice lines in
@australian
's response to
@4corners
but I'll just start here. "... the ABC chooses to run another episode in its decades-long, institutional and personal crusade against News Corp"
The
@AusPressCouncil
is not independent, has "proved to be ineffectual", and is largely funded by News Corp, Dr Denis Muller tells the media diversity inquiry.
Nine:
@oz_f
has been appointed culture news editor for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, driving arts, books, television, film, music, celebrity and pop culture.
Anthony Klan told media diversity inquiry that the Australian changed over the 15 years he worked there and towards 2019 the "level of unethical behaviour was extremely high".
Opposition Indigenous Australians spokesperson Jacinta Nampijinpa Price tells reporter she believes colonisation does not impact on Indigenous Australians today.
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Suddenly the minister for the ABC "scrambled" to undo the ABC cuts just before the election was called,
@KerryOBrien
says, asking how we can trust a Coalition government when Howard, Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison have all made cuts.
Malcolm Turnbull says the Murdoch media is by far the most powerful, and dangerous force, in Australian politics today, far more powerful than any political party.
#mediadiversityinquiry