Media

With Fox News raking in viewer numbers, seizing about 70% of the market in November, Rupert Murdoch is keen to ensure the profits continue to roll in by entrusting Lachlan Murdoch full control. Binoy Kampmark reports.

Outgoing United States President Joe Biden has a chance to make history of the right sort by pardoning WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Binoy Kampmark reports.

Riley Breen spoke to Janet Parker from Jews for Palestine WA about the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the claims that the Palestine solidarity movement and criticisms of Israel are antisemitic.

While Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s new social media ban for young people may appeal to worried parents, Luka Koerber writes it doesn’t address the real problems with social media platforms.

While good reporting helps us to be aware of, and understand current events, social change is a long-term endeavour that requires imagination, vision and deconstruction of the status quo. This forum explores the vital role of storytelling. 

Opening title of film

A year after the launch of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has released a new documentary that exposes Israeli war crimes through photos and videos shared by Israeli soldiers, writes Barry Sheppard.

Peter Greste, who was once a journalist hungry to get the story, now wishes to set “professional” standards for the craft and, problematically, define press freedom in Australia. Binoy Kampmark reports.

 

social media

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s proposed social media ban for young people may be popular, but it’s likely to do more harm than good, argues Isaac Nellist

Labor faces internal division, advocate fury and community outrage over its Faustian love-in with the gambling industry, which seeks to water down bi-partisan support for advertising bans. Suzanne James reports.

Ofer prison

International solidarity is needed amid massive overcrowding in Israeli prisons and crimes against humanity being committed daily by the Israeli occupying forces against prisoners and detainees, writes Hassan Abed Rabbu.

Skid Row Radio graphic

Sydney’s Radio Skid Row is a grassroots, community-driven radio station that has been a vital voice for marginalised communities since its establishment on Gadigal country in 1983, writes Manu Monteiro. The station has just kicked off its annual supporter drive.

map of settler violence

While opposing Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza, we should not forget another aspect of Israel’s genocidal project: the growing violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, argues Barry Sheppard.