Quentin Dempster
The New Daily
Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Past articles by Quentin:
Gladys Berejiklian’s downfall: a self-inflicted tragedy
When the NSW Premier heard of the extension of Operation Keppel on Thursday afternoon she decided to fall on her sword and resign the premiership. → Read More
Paul Fletcher threatens to sack Ita Buttrose over Four Corners report
The Four Corners episode exposed cynicism, sexism and men behaving badly, to the systemic detriment of women and their careers in public and political life → Read More
Government’s TV industry ‘rescue’ plan now up in the air
Australia’s commercial free to air TV networks are haemorrhaging audiences and money, but a government ‘rescue’ plan has immediately been roundly rejected. → Read More
Gov't axes ABC and SBS from tech giants' payouts
All Australian news media entities, except ABC and SBS, are to be given the power to force global tech giants Google and Facebook to pay for content. → Read More
'Over to you Ita': The ABC’s five-year plan is spin for managed decline
Ita Buttrose and her board have produced a glossy five year plan to cover up the fact the ABC is in accelerating decline through Morrison defunding. → Read More
BuzzFeed out: So much for diversity in Australia’s media
Two years after the ACCC approved the biggest consolidation of media ownership in 40 years, the withdrawal of BuzzFeed has exposed its misjudgment. → Read More
Hands tied: PM’s anti-corruption commission is comparatively powerless
No public hearings? Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s proposed Commonwealth Integrity Commission is deeply flawed in its current conception. → Read More
ACCC's Fairfax-Nine means less diversity and a new media baron
Competition regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, has green-lighted the death of Fairfax Media, the institution that has been a fo → Read More
News Corp, Google clash in Australian algorithm war
It’s Google versus News Corp Australia in a battle over the way algorithms can be controlled to drive internet search engine traffic. → Read More
ABC board chair Justin Milne being urged to resign
The Scott Morrison government and the ABC board are moving to pressure ABC chairman Justin Milne to resign as soon as possible. → Read More
A political motive behind Michelle Guthrie sacking?
The unexpected sacking of ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie has raised one big question, among the many, Quentin Dempster writes. → Read More
'Because it's wreck-able': Anger mounting at move to end Fairfax
The proposed end of Fairfax Media as an entity has provoked mounting anger by some of Australia’s most prominent journalists. → Read More
News Corp rats on mates in press freedom protest
The Canberra Press Gallery’s protest that it would withdraw from media pool coverage of September’s Pacific Islands Forum in Nauru has become an ugly diplo → Read More
The new coalition that is really governing Australia
The LNP Pauline Hanson Murdoch Press coalition is who is really running this country → Read More
Australia’s sledge hammer to crack foreign influence peddlars
Draft bills before parliament cover electoral funding, cyber security, espionage and a new regime of self-registration for transparency of foreign influence → Read More
Only 4 cents a day: ABC Board plans public campaign
A meeting of the ABC board in Sydney on Thursday is expected to plan a roadshow campaign to take its case for triennial funding to the public. → Read More
Disneyland trips and more: Police called into 'dot au' dispute
Bitter infighting may soon force the government to set up a statutory authority to take over the administration of Australia’s lucrative web domain registry → Read More
Position vacant: The NBN ‘death seat’
ANALYSIS: The head of NBN can be called an executive death seat because the network's business plan has been shredded. → Read More
The Barnaby Joyce saga is far from over.
The Barnaby Joyce saga is far from over. → Read More
The government's new foreign interference law is 'overkill'
ANALYSIS: According to Australia’s top constitutional, free speech and human rights lawyer, the new foreign interference penalties amount to “overkill”. → Read More