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Jonathan Holmes is a former host of Media Watch and chair of ABC Alumni.

Buttrose has been a stalwart defender of ABC independence, so why is she wresting control of complaints from its management?
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Buttrose has been a stalwart defender of ABC independence, so why is she wresting control of complaints from its management?

In appointing an ombudsman who answers to the board, not the managing director, the ABC chairperson would create a complaints system unique in the democratic world.

  • by Jonathan Holmes

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For we are one and ... safe: how Australia surrenders its liberty by tiptoeing around press freedom

For we are one and ... safe: how Australia surrenders its liberty by tiptoeing around press freedom

Raids on journalists provoked public alarm and a parliamentary inquiry – all to little effect.

  • by Jonathan Holmes

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