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Down the social media rabbit hole

17 June 2017

9:00 AM

17 June 2017

9:00 AM

‘Whatever it is I’m against it,’ Groucho Marx sang in the 1932 film Horse Feathers.
Bill Shorten’s Labor Party is singing from the same song sheet in its opposition to the Turnbull Government’s changes to media ownership rules. And, as with the Marx Brothers movie, its argument for trying to torpedo these changes is horse feathers.

Shadow Communications Minister Michelle Rowland has made it clear that Labor will not agree to changing the two out of three rule that prevents a company from controlling radio, television and print in the one market.

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