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
Requisites
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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