The Australia Institute’s inaugural 2024 Transparency Summit brought together experts, whistleblowers and those working to ensure the interests of all Australians are represented in our policy-making process. We are sleepwalking towards disaster when we accept the idea that the more secret we are about decision-making, the safer we’ll be. – Richard Denniss, Executive Director of

Join journalist and author Amy McQuire for this free webinar to discuss her book Black Witness, a searing indictment of the media’s failures in reporting Indigenous affairs – and a powerful corrective that shows how Black journalism can pave the way for equality and justice. From one of this country’s leading Indigenous journalists comes a

On this episode, we discuss regulating the digital giants, the challenge of artificial intelligence and restoring trust in the media.

There is widespread public support for banning gambling advertisements on free-to-air media because of the harm caused by gambling. The main objection is that Australia’s free-to-air networks, hit by declining revenues and fragmenting audiences, can’t afford to lose the money. But there’s a simple solution. A small levy on the many billions of dollars gambling

The media industry has changed radically over the last three decades, transformed by the emergence of the 24-hour news cycle, social media and now artificial intelligence).

The United States Government’s indictment of Julian Assange has major implications for the future of public-interest journalism, according to his legal advisor.

It’s been 12 years since Julian Assange has been free – but is the fight to keep him from a life in an American prison finally coming to an end?

For three years, Meta and Google have paid hundreds of millions of dollars to Australian publishers in exchange for using news content.

Australia’s public broadcasters (the ABC and SBS) should remain independent and free from political interference.

The Australia Institute surveyed a sample of 1,535 Australians about how the Communications Minister makes appointments to the ABC Board.

Public interest journalism from the ABC has placed scrutiny on issues that governments would prefer to ignore, prompting numerous government inquiries and investigations – what Josh Taylor, writing in Crikey, called “The Four Corners effect”.

Job advertisement numbers increased 46% compared to the pre-pandemic average after the mandatory bargaining code was introduced.

Nordic models of providing subsidies to the media help support media diversity and public interest journalism and should be considered as part of the Albanese government’s commitments to review and improve media policy, according to a new report from the Nordic Policy Centre at the Australia Institute. Key findings: Norway’s direct ‘press support’ subsidies for

Australia’s media caters to a population of 25 million, which is about the same as the combined population of the Nordic nations. The similarities end there.