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Alan Austin is an Australian freelance journalist now living near Nîmes in the South of France. His special interests are the news media, religious affairs and economic and social issues which impact the disadvantaged.
Alan has written for many media outlets and been published in most Australian newspapers and online publications. He wrote the influential Uniting Church report on prisons in Victoria in the 1980s which led directly to the jailing of prison officers for drug offences. He worked for eight years with ABC Radio and Television’s religious broadcasts unit and seven years with World Vision. His most recent part-time appointment was with the Uniting Church magazine Crosslight.
Overseas, he has worked as journalist in Indonesia, China and now France.
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[...] An accelerating shift to accept gay unions around the world is borne out by Tasmania’s vote in favour of same sex marriage yesterday, writes Alan Austin. [...]
[...] the Church and gay rights advocates may not have advanced the nation towards agreement, says Alan Austin, but it may have encouraged both sides to clarify their claims and listen more attentively to their [...]
[...] The urgent task of getting Australia’s online security balance right is being undermined by mendacious media manipulation by the likes of News Ltd and the IPA, writes Alan Austin. [...]
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[...] Under its disingenous guise of protecting privacy and freedom, the IPA yesterday again attacked the Government for entirely concocted ills, says Alan Austin. [...]
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[...] the casualties so-far confined to the PM’s critics, Alan Austin wonders whether this will be the week the lid blows off the rumbling Canberra volcano? Deputy [...]
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[...] campaign of distortion and misinformation in The Australian is now underway, says Alan Austin, designed to incite fear about anti-discrimination [...]
[...] “election campaign” is off to a great start for the Coalition, writes Alan Austin, with the establishment media managing to spin every issue in their [...]
[...] up its campaign against the Government — now abandoning any pretence of unbiased reporting. Alan Austin [...]
[...] The ignorance and ineptitude of the man who would be Australia’s next treasurer was on full display last Thursday, writes Alan Austin. [...]
[...] The ignorance and ineptitude of the man who would be Australia’s next treasurer was on full display last Thursday, writes Alan Austin. [...]
[...] Limited is the main perpetrator of media abuses in Australia, writes Alan Austin, and hence the strongest proof the current self-regulation system is [...]
[...] Limited is the main perpetrator of media abuses in Australia, writes Alan Austin, and hence the strongest proof the current self-regulation system is [...]
[...] for Tony Abbott could spell the end for his opposition leadership say to Coalition insiders. Alan Austin [...]
[...] for Tony Abbott could spell the end for his opposition leadership say to Coalition insiders. Alan Austin [...]
[...] aspects to the Ettridge versus Abbott case heard in the Brisbane Supreme Court yesterday, says Alan Austin. Firstly, that Ettridge has a case and, secondly, the lack of media [...]
[...] reply featured at least 20 lies — all of them overlooked by Australia’s corporate media. Alan Austin covers a dozen of Thursday’s most glaring [...]