Overview
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Offerings
MURDOCH-S1-FACE2FACE-2025-2025
MURDOCH-S1-FACE2FACE-2027-2027
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Learning activities
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Learning outcomes
1.
Identify legal issues relevant to the operation of key forms of the media.
2.
Describe the relationships between state and national laws and Australia's international obligations.
3.
Articulate justifications for freedom of expression and restrictions of that freedom.
4.
Critically evaluate and solve problems relating to privacy, defamation and other areas of media law.
Assessments
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Additional information
Unit content:
The lectures will will cover the following topics:
- what the "media" incorporates and what constitutes a "journalist"
- Copyright
- Privacy
- Defamation
- Suppression orders and contempt
- Censorship (including classification system)
- Regulation of social media