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The Public Right to Know
Vol 10(1), April 2004
Special edition edited by Chris Nash, Fran Molloy and David Robie
Copies available for A$30 at the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ): acij@uts.edu.au
Editorial
The republican factor pp 6-8, Chris Nash
Theme
THE PUBLIC RIGHT TO KNOW:
- Celebrity and scandal:
1. Going to the chapel: Same sex marriage and competing narratives of intimate citizenship pp 9-28, Marcus O’Donnell (read abstract) - Advertisement: JEA conference in Fiji p 28
- Spin and censorship:
2. Exposing and opposing censorship: Backfire dynamics
in freedom-of-speech struggles pp 29-45, Sue Curry Jansen and Brian Martin (read abstract) - At the coalface:
3. Advocacy in the dark: Seeking justice for asylum seekers pp 46-56, Jo Gow and Mary Quilty (read abstract) - Advertisement: The Guardian Weekly student tourp 57
- Narrative struggles:
4. Reporting war: Grammar as ‘covert operation’ pp 58-74
Annabelle Lukin, David Butt and Christian Matthiessen (read abstract) - Advertisement: AUT postgraduate programme p 75
- Intellectual property:
5. ‘I have a patent lawyer on retainer!’ Intellect v intellectual property – a battle over the cultural commons? pp 76-88, James Arvantakis (read abstract) - 6. The public right to know about science pp 89-101
Rosslyn Reed (read abstract) - Advertisement: ACIJ in the Pacific p 102
- Free speech:
7. The sword of Damocles in the South Pacific: Two
regulatory case studies in Fiji, Tonga pp 103-122, David Robie (read abstract) - 8. Press freedom and the High Court in the Callinan era:
Rethinking the rhetoric pp 123-138, Mark Pearson (read abstract) - Advertisement: ACIJ Public Right to Know call for papers 2004 p 138
- 9. Freedom of speech issues in Toohey v Peach and a hypothetical variant of that case pp 139-152, Patrick Keyzer (read abstract)
- Radical and student press:
10. Ratbags, revolutionaries and free speech:
The Queensland radical press in 1968 pp 153-170, Alan Knight (read abstract) - Advertisement: PJR call for papers - Media and the indigenous public sphere p 171
- Advertisement: USP Book Centre p 172
Commentaries
- 11. Bullying the public broadcaster: Threatening the ABC’s role pp 173-177, Quentin Dempster
- 12. How tying funding to ‘good behaviour’ hits critical NGOs pp 178-183, Andrew Hewett
- Terrorism by media: Coverage of the Ahmed Zaoui affair pp 184-190, Steven Price
- NZ journalism unit standards: Are they still needed? pp 191-199, Frank Sligo
- Advertisement: JEANZ conference p 200
Obituaries
- Mark Worth, Asia-Pacific filmmaker and journalist,
1959-2004: A guerrilla and a one-man band pp 201-206, Ben Bohane - Warren Berryman, NZ investigative publisher, 1939-2004: A hard-nosed, hard-case ‘scoop king’ pp 207-213, Jon Stephenson
- Advertisement: Fijian Studies journal p 214
Reviews
- West Papua: Follow the Morning Star
By Ben Bohane, Liz Thompson and Jim Elmslie pp 215-218. Reviewed by David Robie - Catching the Wave
By Belinda Weaver pp 219-221. Reviewed by Annie McKillop - Dog Whistle Politics and Journalism: Reporting
Arabic and Muslim People in Sydney Newspapers
By Peter Manning pp 222-224. Reviewed by David Robie - ... As Mothers of the Land: The Birth of the
Bougainville Women for Peace and Freedom
Edited by Josephine Tankunani Sirivi and Marilyn Taleo Havini pp 224-228, Reviewed by David Robie - Veronica Guerin
Directed by Joel Schumacher, pp 228-230, Reviewed by Seumas Phelan
Forum
David Venables, Tupeni L. Baba, Geraldene Peters pp 231-238
NOTES TO CONTRIBUTORS pp 239
