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Emma Dawson

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Emma Dawson is a Research Fellow at the Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements, and co-editor of "Social Cohesion in Australia", Cambridge University Press. She was a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Development from 2007-2008.

Emma Dawson's contributions:

Australia's diversity advantage

Conformity is the enemy of everything Australia is and needs to be in the twenty-first century, writes Emma Dawson. We need to look anew at cultural diversity through the lens of social cohesion.


DISCUSSION PAPER: Australia’s public broadcasters

In this draft discussion paper Emma Dawson and Miriam Lyons outline the basic principles that should underpin our public broadcasting policy, and suggest some ways to better equip the ABC and SBS to meet the needs of Australian citizens.


INTRODUCTION: Ideas for an Australian media policy

The Centre for Policy Development is developing a series of discussion papers on media policy reform. In this introduction former Centre for Policy Development fellow Emma Dawson and current CPD Director Miriam Lyons argue that the failure to reinvent Australia’s media policy for a new media age is putting the health of our democracy at risk.


EDITORIAL: Telling Our Own Stories

Emma Dawson introduces a special edition on media policy


What makes a public — not 'national commercial' — broadcaster

Emma Dawson considers the recent attacks on the ABC and what they might mean for the future of the public broadcaster. Dawson believes that the Minister’s adoption of ‘national’ rather than ‘public’ broadcaster reflects an attempt to distance the Government from the need to provide public funding and warns against the introduction of commercial advertising because of its impact at SBS. Dawson believes that defining what a public broadcaster is, is the first step towards protecting this important institution.


Media ownership in Australia, timeline of developments: 1991-2006

To coincide with the announcement of proposals for changes to Australian media ownership laws the Centre for Policy Development Media Convenor Emma Dawson has prepared a timeline of media ownership in Australia from 1991-2006. Please send any suggested additions to this timeline to contact(at)cpd.org.au


Media Ownership on the agenda?

With the release of a Discussion Paper on cross-media ownership expected any day now, Emma Dawson sets the scene for what will be an important public debate. She raises several of the key issues and introduces the history of media policy.



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