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dc.contributor.authorPearson, M.
dc.contributor.authorFernandez, Joseph
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T11:32:53Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T11:32:53Z
dc.date.created2015-12-10T04:25:58Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationPearson, M. and Fernandez, J. 2015. Censorship in Australia: Intrusions into media freedom flying beneath the international free expression radar. Pacific Journalism Review. 21 (1): pp. 40-60.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12797
dc.description.abstract

Australia has ranked among the top 30 nations in recent world press freedom surveys published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Freedom House and is broadly regarded as a substantially free Western liberal democracy. This article considers how the methodologies of those organisations assess the impact upon media freedom of a range of recent decisions and actions by Australian politicians, judges and government agencies. There is considerable evidence of a shift towards official secrecy and suppression of information flow. However, according to this analysis such developments are unlikely to impact significantly on Australia’s international ranking in media freedom indices. This article uses the methodologies of RSF and Freedom House to explore whether the international free expression organisations’ criteria are justifiably weighted towards violence against journalists, their imprisonment and formal anti-press laws and might allow for a nuanced comparison of other evidence of constraints on the news media in developed democracies.

dc.publisherAuckland University of Technology
dc.relation.urihttps://pjreview.aut.ac.nz/articles/censorship-australia-intrusions-media-freedom-flying-beneath-international-free-expression
dc.titleCensorship in Australia: Intrusions into media freedom flying beneath the international free expression radar
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume21
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage40
dcterms.source.endPage60
dcterms.source.issn1023-9499
dcterms.source.titlePacific Journalism Review
curtin.departmentDepartment of Journalism
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