Complaint form - Australian Press Council

Before completing this Complaint Form, it is important to read the Council’s summary of Making a Complaint which provide details on what can be complained about, who can complain and how a complaint can be made.

The Complaint Form can be completed online below, or the pdf version can be downloaded below and sent to the Council by email, fax or post. If it is difficult or impossible to make a written complaint by these methods, the Council office should be contacted for advice and assistance. For the Council’s contact details, see Contact us.

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Please complete and submit the form below:

A. Complainant Information

(Asterisked items must be provided)

Name : *

Address : *

Phone :

Fax :

E-mail : *

B. Publication Information

My complaint is against :
(name of publication/s or URL of website)

Date/s of publication (where applicable) :

You need to send the Council a copy of the article or illustration you are complaining about. (In the case of a photo, drawing or headline, we also need a copy of any article to which it relates.) If the items was on a website, a screenshot needs to be provided in hard copy or electronically. Please send the relevant material by post or email to the Council.

The headline or name of the item/s are :

C. Main Element of the Complaint

State, in 400 words or fewer, the main elements of your complaint. In doing so, please refer to any of the Council's Standards of Practice which you believe are relevant.

Do you have a direct association with the matters or persons referred to in the article and in the complaint? If not, what reason do you have to raise the complaint?

D. Contact with Publication

Have you contacted the publication(s) or website about the matter(s) listed above? If so, in what manner and when?

If not, why not?

What, if any, response have you had from the publication(s) or websites?