Events

News Media & the Law

Many thanks to everyone who helped make the CLC's 'News Media and the Law' Conference such a roaring success. We would especially like to thank our speakers, whose generous gifts of time and expertise helped us craft a fascinating and engaging series of talks.

There were countless highlights, but many guests particularly enjoyed Robert Manne's meticulous deconstruction of News Limited's Iraq war coverage, Age editor-in-chief Andrew Jaspan and Crikey.com.au co-owner Eric Beecher's feisty stand-off over the future of the newspaper, John Silvester's stories of legal actions he avoided because the plaintiff was conveniently shot, and Michael McKinnon's spirited tutorial in FOI legislation.

Our thanks also to our co-hosts, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance and the Australian Press Council, and to Victoria University for housing the conference.

News Media & the Law Conference Flyer (pdf 125K)

The Communications Law Centre is hosting the News Media and the Law Conference on Thursday 23 and Friday 24 June 2005 at Victoria University.

This dynamic conference will explore legal issues like traps the law sets for journalists, defamation, and privacy. Speakers will also explore broader political issues like cross-media ownership and public broadcasting, farewell the vanishing newspaper and find new definitions for media.

We have a stellar line up of speakers. Professor Robert Manne will use the keynote address to dissect the tactics of the Murdoch empire. Liz Jackson from Media Watch will talk about newsgathering, and Age editor Andrew Jaspan and Crikey.com.au co-owner Eric Beecher will spar over new definitions of journalism. Legal panelists include David Lindsay, Justin Quill, Lesley Power and Veronica Byrne, and other journalists speaking include Ramona Koval, John Silvester, Andrew Rule and Russell Robinson.

We hope you can join us. Registration includes a copy of Robert Manne's new book Left Right Left: Political Essays 1977-2005. The Communications Law Centre is also launching the latest Media Ownership Update on Thursday evening, and would love attendees to join us for drinks.

CLE/CPD POINTS
If this conference is relevant to your immediate or long term needs in relation to your professional development and practice of the law, then you should claim one unit for each hour of actual attendance, not including refreshment breaks.

Program
Day 1
Welcome

• Professor Colin Clark, Dean, Faculty of Business & Law, Victoria University
  What is the future for news media?
• Mike Van Niekerk, Managing Editor, theage.com.au & smh.com.au
• Ian Cook, News Editor, Sky News
  New Definitions of Journalism
• Eric Beecher, co-owner Private Media Partners
• Andrew Jaspan, Editor-in-Chief The Age Cross-media Ownership
• Stuart Simson, Executive Chairman, emitch
• Roger Colman, Director, CCZ Equities
  Welcome Drinks and launch of the CLC's Media Ownership Update
  
  Day 2
  Keynote Address
• Robert Manne, Commentator & Professor of Politics, La Trobe University
  Global Media, Public Broadcasting and the Debate on Democracy
• Ramona Koval, Journalist & Board Member, ABC
• Phil Martin, former director of News & Current Affairs, SBS
• Margaret Simons, Freelance Journalist & Author
  Newsgathering: New Traps Set by the Law
• David Lindsay, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University
• Liz Jackson, Presenter, Media Watch
• Justin Quill, Senior Associate, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
• Russell Robinson, Investigative Reporter, Herald Sun
  Defamation: Using & Abusing the Law
• Roy Baker, Project Director, National Defamation Research Project, CLC
• Andrew Rule, Senior Reporter, The Age
• Lesley Power, Corporate Counsel, SBS
• John Silvester, Journalist, The Age
  Handling Sensitive Information: Access Freedom of Information & Suppression Orders
• Veronica Byrne, Senior Associate, Minter Ellison
• Michael McKinnon, FOI Editor, The Australian
• Matthew Ricketson, Journalism Discipline Leader, RMIT
  
  To register please use the News Media & the Law Conference Flyer (pdf 125K).

• Digital Disability: A Sydney Seminar & Book Launch on Disability + New Media
  
  Hosted by Communications Law Centre (CLC), UNSW & Disability Studies & Research Institute (DSaRI)
  
  Date: Wednesday 2 April 2003
  Time: 3.30-5.00 pm
  Place: The Council Chamber, Chancellery Building, UNSW (Gate 9, High Street, Kensington)
  
  3.30-5.00 pm: Seminar on Disability + New Media
  
  Speakers include:
• Derek Wilding (CLC) (Chair)
• Helen Meekosha (DSaRI & School of Social Work, UNSW)
• Tim Noonan (Royal Blind Society of NSW & SoftSpeak Computer Services)
• Cathy Clark (Australian Association of the Deaf)
• Gerard Goggin (Centre for Critical & Cultural Studies, University of Qld)
• Christopher Newell (School of Medicine, University of Tasmania)
  
  5.00 pm onwards: Launch of Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media, Gerard Goggin & Christopher Newell (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003)
  
  Digital Disability will be launched by Graeme Innes, AM, Deputy Disability Discrimination Commissioner, Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission. Light refreshments will be served.
  
  UNSW Bookshop will have copies of Digital Disability available.
  
  RSVPs are essential - to organiser, Gerard Goggin (g.goggin@ug.edu.au or 02 9385 7374). Please advise any access or other requirements also.
  
  Download a flier (pdf format 133K).
  
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 23:25:46 GMT
  Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
  X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
  MicrosoftOfficeWebServer: 5.0_Pub
  pragma: no-cache
  Content-Length: 11
  Content-Type: text/html
  Expires: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 23:25:46 GMT
  Cache-control: no-cache
  Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDSAARRARR=IOEDLHFAEOMIFBBBDIIEMMOP; path=/
  Connection: Close
  
  **UPDATED**
  
  
  *** Updated Successfully! ***