Media

The road from studio to statehouse is older than television. Ronald Reagan began as a radio sports announcer, recreating Chicago Cubs games in a Des Moines studio from pitch by pitch wire reports, then hosted General Electric Theater and toured the country giving speeches for the company, before a televised address for Senator Barry Goldwater in 1964 launched his political career. He kept this habit in office, delivering a radio…

In February, at a gala marking its thirtieth anniversary, Sky News Australia announced it would retire its own name. The announcement came during the official opening of the network's new Surry Hills headquarters, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and New South Wales Premier Chris Minns presiding over the launch while Pauline Hanson and Tony Abbott were among the guests, an eclectic turnout for a network about to shed the very…

Every few months, the same argument resurfaces - the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is biased. Critics on the right point to a segment, a tweet from a presenter, an op-ed commissioned from the wrong side of politics, and conclude that our national broadcaster has a partisan agenda. The ABC's defenders respond by pointing to audits and editorial charters, and the argument goes nowhere, as it always does. Both sides are arguing…

In the early evening of 13 July 2024, the world would witness one of the most heinous acts of political extremism in decades. Just minutes into Donald Trump’s speech at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the sound of gunshots rang across the stage as 20-year-old Thomas Crooks opened fire on the podium, determined to assassinate the former president. Yet in a stroke of luck so remarkable that it seemed an…