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Whitewash? That's not the colour of the SBS charter

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageJanice Peterson – one of the faces of World News Australia on SBS, which is facing accusations of 'whitewashing'.AAP Image/Joe Castro

In commercial television you live or die by your ratings.

If viewers switch off, the advertisers go too. Consultants are ushered in, focus groups are formed and they will tell management what will stop them from...

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Why the Federal Budget is a textbook policy dilemma

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imageA textbook conundrum: stoke an economy or pay down debt?Alan Porritt/AAP

A standard principle in economic policy-making is that if you have only one tool, then you cannot achieve two distinct objectives.

The problem for prime minister Tony Abbott is, in fact, even worse: he has one tool to pursue two objectives that are not just distinct, but even...

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