The foundations have crumbled and need to be entirely rebuilt if journalism is to play its vital role in our democracy
he aimed high. The entrance was distinguished by a temple front and nine soaring Ionic columns: incongruently grand symbols, a long way from Greece.
Australians were voracious readers interested in politics; the colonies developed a global reputation as land of newspapers.. Queensland is dotted with what the ACCC calls news deserts. Ten of the 29 local government areas in Australia without a local news publisher are in the state, and nationwide a third of local government areas have
The democratic role of the press was acknowledged in passing, but few owners took their eyes off the real commercial power that owning a newspaper bestows, as Sally Young has documented in her magnificent books,Journalists became more professional and assertive, and independent public broadcasters pushed back, but it was an unequal battle.