Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Melbourne lecture

Premier of Queensland Peter Beattie presents the University of Melbourne AN Smith Memorial Lecture in Journalism Power Without Responsibility - Who Guards the Guardians? at the University of Melbourne at 6 pm this evening. Mr Beattie will discuss whether the principles of freedom of information should be extended to journalists, so that the media can be held to the same tests of honesty as other public institutions. The lecture is free and open to the public but bookings are required.

16/12/2005 The full text and an audio recording are now available.