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Diversity and local voices at risk as media owners aim to become emperors of everything

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imageMitch Fifield seems to have herded enough fractious media cats into the cage to get his media reform package through.AAP/Lukas Coch

Australia is about to experience its biggest shake-up in media ownership laws for nearly 30 years.

In 1987, then-treasurer Paul Keating declared media owners could be “queens of screen or princes of print but not...

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Jobs don't need to be lousy

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imageData from a recent OECD report suggests that to increase the number of jobs, the quality of jobs doesn't need to drop.From www.shutterstock.com

Do people have to put up with poor quality jobs because that’s the only way to get enough jobs? Are the quality and quantity of jobs at odds with each other?

There have been variations on this idea...

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