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Albanese is race-ready if byelection voters fire starting gun

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Voters in Braddon and Longman probably aren’t even aware they could be pivotal to the future of Bill Shorten’s leadership and Anthony Albanese’s ambition.

Only the crazy brave would firmly predict how these knife edge ALP seats, in Tasmania and Queensland respectively, will fall out. And only those closely following politics would...

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#NineFairfax deal end of an era for Australia's media titans

  • Written by: Bridget Griffen-Foley, Director of the Centre for Media History, Macquarie University

Competition and co-operation. The former may seem an obvious aspect of the Australian media landscape, but it has always gone hand-in-hand with pragmatic co-operation.

Since the 1920s, the Packer and Murdoch media companies have been entwined with the oldest of Australia’s “old media” firms, Fairfax Media, which has its origins...

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Opting out of My Health Records? Here's what you get with the status quo

  • Written by: Peter Bragge, Associate Professor, Healthcare Quality Improvement (QI) at Behaviour Works, Monash University
Opting out of My Health Records? Here's what you get with the status quoMost hospitals have a mix of paper and digital records.Shutterstock

Australians have just under three months to decide whether they want a My Health Record, which would allow the various health professionals who look after them to access and share their health information. From October 15, those who haven’t opted in or out will have a record...

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Paul Keating unleashes vitriolic attack on Nine's takeover of Fairfax

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Paul Keating, architect of the Hawke government’s cross-media rules, has called on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to put the Nine-Fairfax merger under “high scrutiny”, and declared Nine has the “ethics of an alley cat”.

In a scathing statement, Keating said the takeover was “an exceptionally...

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