Overview

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Offerings

KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-INT-2023-2023
KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-INT-2025-2025
KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-INT-2024-2024
KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-INT-2023-2023
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2018-ONGOING

Other learning activities

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Understand the role and function of the courts and tribunals;

2.

Report on court proceedings, applying your knowledge of the court system

3.

Evaluate the advisability of publishing a story, based on your understanding of the laws of defamation and other relevant laws

4.

Use the regulations and codes of ethics to assist in ethical judgement

5.

Take an ethical stand on an issue and argue for it

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:Media law and the courts Contempt, defamation and other laws Media regulation in Australia Codes and self-regulation in Australia Ethical principles for journalists Privacy and other sensitive areas of reporting