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Director, Journalism & Media Research Centre, UNSW; Author, The Porn Report [Melbourne University Press, 2008...

The Porn Report: The Good News and the Bad News - 20th May 2008: This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol. 20 No. 3 in 2008 (pp. 7 - 14).
Children, TV and Media Generated Panic - 24th October 2006: This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol. 19 No. 1 in 2007 (pp. 78 - 86).
The Media and Australian Politics: Following the 2004 federal election and Labor's loss, many leading media figures were criticised for wrongly forecasting a Labor victory and for being too easily mesmerised by Labor's new leader, Mark Latham. Is the Canberra Press Gallery too removed from the average Australian experience, and too remote in its Parliament House offices to detect the mood of the electorate, in spite of opinion polls? To discuss all this and more, David Marr, Sydney journalist and former ABC TV Media Watch presenter, Catharine Lumby, Director of Media Studies at the University of Sydney and Gerard Henderson, columnist with The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age came together at The Sydney Institute on Monday 24 January 2005.; This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol. 17 No. 1 in 2005 (pp. 117 - 120).