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Chris Mitchell began his career in late 1973 in Brisbane on the afternoon daily, The Telegraph. He worked on the Townsville Daily Bulletin, the Daily Telegraph Sydney and the Australian Financial Review before joining The Australian in 1984. He was appointed editor of The Australian in 1992 and editor in chief of Queensland Newspapers in 1995. He returned to Sydney as editor in chief of The Australian in 2002 and held that position until his retirement in December 2015.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY 12, 2020: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews press conference updating on the Victorian COVID-19 figures. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Crosling

Premier’s hubris a virus X-factor

Dan Andrews chose to lock down Victoria hardest of all, but he also let private security firms monitor hotel quarantine.

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A demonstrator takes part in a protest on climate emergency, called by environmental groups including Extinction Rebellion and Fridays For Future, outside the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 at the 'IFEMA - Feria de Madrid' exhibition centre, in Madrid, on December 13, 2019. - The preservation of Earth's pristine wildernesses and oceans, long treated as a separate issue to curbing climate change, is taking on more importance as scientists say they really need to go hand in hand. While the focus at COP25 in Madrid these past two weeks has been on climate change and the growing urgency to cut greenhouse gas emissions, organisers have made an effort to put the natural environment into the mix. (Photo by PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU / AFP)

A fool’s game in climate change reporting

Once-sober media organisations now prefer panic to accurate and sceptical reporting.

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Ita Buttrose, chair of ABC and David Anderson, managing director of ABC. Picture: Supplied by ABC

ABC refuses to make real-world cuts

The ABC’s board and management have not made the sort of tough decisions media companies around the world have had to make.

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Climate Protesters outside AGL office on George Street, Sydney, 15th January 2020. Sydney Protest: Make the Climate Criminals Pay, Hosted by Uni Students for Climate JusticePicture by Damian Shaw

Prep students for jobs, not activism

Today’s journalism, teaching and higher education are all too far to the left of public opinion.

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Protestors carry an Aboriginal flag as the walk past a statue of British explorer James Cook in Sydney, Friday, June 12, 2020, to support U.S. protests over the death of George Floyd. Hundreds of police disrupted plans for a Black Lives Matter rally but protest organizers have vowed that other rallies will continue around Australia over the weekend despite warnings of the pandemic risk. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

For protesters not all black lives matter

A life lost in custody is apparently a more worthy cause than the ones lost to black-on-black violence in Aboriginal communities.

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GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 07: Protesters raise fists in solidarity at the Glendale Community March and Vigil for Black Lives Matter on June 07, 2020 in Glendale, California. Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Fake news on Trump, protests

Black lives do matter but the fact in the US is those lives have been improving.

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Signage is seen at the ABC offices in Ultimo, Sydney, Tuesday, June 11, 2019. The ABC is considering a legal challenge after federal police raided the public broadcaster's Sydney offices last week. (AAP Image/Danny Casey) NO ARCHIVING

ABC’s COVID-19 crusade

Many journalists seem unable to understand economics in a media environment dominated by victim advocacy.

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Premier playing with political fire

Annastacia Palaszczuk’s dangerous political game ahead of the October Queensland election has been laid bare by the media.

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Journalist sparks outpouring of ABC bias

The ABC’s Media Watch program is over-staffed and under-researched, as its recent myopic coronavirus coverage illustrates.

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison interacts with a student during a visit to Galilee Catholic Primary School in Sydney, Friday, September 21, 2018. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has struck a $4.6 billion peace deal with Catholic and independent schools, which over a decade he says will bring to an end a long-running war over the Gonski 2.0 school funding model. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

Back to school for state reporters, ABC

Many personal biases are at play in the attitudes of journalists to pleas by Scott Morrison for the states to reopen their classrooms.

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