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Media Ownership & Democracy

19 February 2004
Filed under Politics, Text, The Media

There's something scarily Silvio Berlusconi-ish about the proposition that Telstra, Australia's biggest communication company (which is 50.1% Government-owned) buy Fairfax, the mainstream media company most critical of the Government's endeavours. In particular, it shocks me (I shouldn't be shocked, I realise, but I am) that our dear Prime Minister actually KNEW in advance that this proposition would be presented to the Telstra board, and told Telstra that his government wouldn't stand in the way of such a purchase.

An election can't come soon enough.

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