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But what about survival of the press — and the role of the ABC?

15 September 2017

1:02 PM

15 September 2017

1:02 PM

The Australian media have always been subject to competition law. So why should there be special laws about their structure? In a democracy, licensing of the print media would be abhorrent – there can be no justification for this and the legitimate fear would be that licensing would only be used to gag the press.

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