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dc.contributor.authorFernandez, Joseph
dc.contributor.editorDR Sue Summers
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T14:45:34Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T14:45:34Z
dc.date.created2013-09-12T20:00:24Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationFernandez, Joseph. 2013. Media law in Australia: Principles, pitfalls and potentials. 1st ed. Curtin University of Technology: Black Swan Press.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40768
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Media Law In Australia discusses an array of laws that impact on the media’s publishing activities. It focuses on the laws that media professionals and others who are preparing publication content must consider. A national audit of free speech commissioned by the Right To Know Coalition grouping of Australia’s main media organisations reported in 2007 that Australians were being denied vital information about how they are governed and how justice is dispensed and that journalists faced more than 500 legal restrictions on information flow. That position remains largely unchanged. This book sets the stage for discussion by considering two preliminary topics: the free speech theory and the various instruments that enshrine freedom of speech, and the oft-invoked ‘public interest’ argument. The laws discussed in this book are divided into convenient sub-topics: Making The Law, Defamation; Confidentiality and Secrecy; Privacy; Freedom of Information; Media and the Courts and Parliament; Offensive Speech; Copyright; and Media Regulators. Also included is a discussion on the various media regulation reform initiatives such as the Finkelstein Inquiry, the Convergence Review and the Leveson Inquiry.

dc.publisherBlack Swan Press
dc.subjectConfidentiality-Secrecy
dc.subjectPublic Interest
dc.subjectcopyright
dc.subjectoffensive speech
dc.subjectLaw making
dc.subjectAustralian Media Law
dc.subjectFreedom of speech
dc.subjectContemp of Court
dc.subjectmedia regulation
dc.titleMedia law in Australia: Principles, pitfalls and potentials
dc.typeBook
dcterms.source.isbn9780987567017
dcterms.source.placeCurtin University of Technology
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