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The Quiet Erosion: Is Australia’s Democracy Slipping Away?

March 8, 2025 Michael Taylor 14

Introduction In the summer of 2023, as Australians voted down the Voice to Parliament referendum, a quieter story unfolded online: conspiracy theories about “rigged” ballots flooded social media, fueled by foreign bots and amplified by […]

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Murdoch gets The Don right

January 24, 2025 David Ayliffe 4

I never thought I’d be lauding Melbourne’s trashy Herald-Sun for getting something right but this headline is perfect. I once worked for Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate at the birth of the schism when the correctly […]

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Democracy and diversity: media ownership in Australia

January 8, 2025 AIMN Editorial 2

Here’s one for the ages, first published on our old site on June 23, 2014. “To protect democracy, governments have an obligation to detect and remove political bias within the media” writes David Vadori. We […]

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