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Public Forums ...
(and other recent out-of-Sydney visits)
The Council usually meets in Sydney. However, since 1989, the Council has held a number of its monthly meetings each year in centres other than Sydney. These visits are intended to make the Council better known, to enable the Council to meet with readers and publishers in the various states and territories, and to provide the Council with the opportunity to hold public forums on issues of interest to the press and to the reading public.
These free public forums bring together expert speakers or expert panels, allow for public questions and discussion and lead to the transcripts (in most cases) of the meetings being published in the Conference Papers series.
In the last few years, the Council has made fewer interstate visits and, when it has, the Council has not convened a forum, preferring to spend its funds available for promotion on other activities, including:
- the annual address, introduced in 2002;
- the case studies seminars with universities, newspapers and members of the public; and
- a series of forums between members of the Council (led by the Chairman) and newspaper and magazine editors in various cities around Australia.
In 2005, the Council has re-introduced its public forums, with a public meeting on privacy in Ballarat, in conjunction with its meetings in that city in May 2005.
The most recent public forum featured two high-profile journalists, Chris Masters and Sean Dorney, speaking on how journalists get the story despite government obstruction, spin and threats to sources. Co-sponsored by Bond University, the forum on investigative journalism was held at Bond University on May 7, 2009 from 6pm.
The forum included a question and discussion time. There will be a report in the May 2009 News.
The public meetings include:
- The Press and the Right to Know Under Siege: Are press freedoms under threat? (Wellington, New Zealand, March 2008), co-sponsored by the New Zealand Press Council
- The Courts and the Media conference (Melbourne, July 2007), jointly with the Centre for Media and Communications Law at Melbourne University.
- Courts and the press, (Perth, March 2007): WA Chief Justice, the Hon. Wayne Martin, Access to Justice - The Media, the Courts and the Public Record
- The Press and Privacy (Ballarat, Vic, May 2005)
- Asia-Pacific Regional Seminar on Press Freedom and Responsibility (Sydney, October 2001)
 What is News? (144 kB)
(Launceston, TAS, November 1999)
- World Association of Press Councils' Oceania Regional Conference (702 mB)
- The Reporting of National Political Issues (198 kB)
(Canberra, ACT, November 1998)
- The Reporting of Gambling Issues (153 kB)
(Melbourne, VIC, 1998)
- The Regional Press, Privacy and the Press Council (Bathurst, NSW, 1997)
- The Role of the Press in the Reconciliation Process (Cairns, Qld, 1997)
- Investigating ... Interpreting ... Entertaining and ... : the Role and Responsibility of the Media (International Media Forum, Bondi, Sydney, 1997)
- Government, Business and the Media (Fremantle, WA, 1996)
- The Reporting of Suicide, Particularly Youth Suicide (invitation-only roundtable, Melbourne, 1996)
- The Back Page: the Press' Coverage of Sport (Ballarat, Vic, 1995)
- Newspapers: A Voice For All? (Hobart, 1995)
- The Role and Responsibility of Country Newspapers (Mount Gambier, SA, 1994)
- Public Figures and the Press (Toowoomba, Qld, 1994)
- The Constitution and Freedom of Speech (Corowa, NSW, 1993)
- Privacy and the Press (Melbourne 1993)
- The Press and Cultural Sensitivities (Darwin 1992)
- Investigative Journalism: How Probing? (Adelaide 1991)
- Press Ethics: Are There Any? (Wollongong, NSW, 1990)
- Defamation Law Reform - the Attorneys'-General Proposal (Sydney 1990)
- Race, Press, Freedom of Speech (Perth 1990 )
- Media Ownership; Defamation Laws (Gold Coast. Qld, 1989)
- Australian Media In the 1990s (Melbourne 1989)
- The Public's Expectations of the Press (Launceston, Tas, 1989) - not published as a booklet
- Freedom of the Press; Role of the Press Council (10th Anniversary Seminar, Sydney 1986)
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