Thirty years ago, a South Pacific radio chief hit me with the greatest jest-cum-compliment I ever received working for the ABC’s international service, Radio Australia. The joke about the role and reach of radio still …
Australia is witnessing an explosion of blind spot exposures, as important institutions are blindsided by their own shortcomings. The blind spot eruption reveals big organisations with incomplete vision, unable to see key elements of what …
Australia’s international broadcasting effort in the Asia–Pacific is at its lowest-ever level. These are the worst of times for Australian international TV, which is 25 years old this year. And these are the hardest of …
To serve Australia’s interests, influence and values in the Asia–Pacific, we need a new entity, an Australian International Broadcasting Corporation. The review of Australia’s media reach in the Asia–Pacific (submissions close at 5 pm AEST …
The wrack and roil afflicting the international system matches the digital disruption of news media. The rules and norms of the foreign policy game and media world both shake, shift and suffer. Australia frets about …