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Regulator slaps restrictions on Kyle and Jackie O if they ever return to radio. Will it make any difference?

Regulator slaps restrictions on Kyle and Jackie O if they ever return to radio. Will it make any difference?

If the ARN radio network’s KIISFM stations want to resurrect Kyle Sandilands or Jackie “O” Henderson, either together, singly or in partnership with someone else, they will face significant new conditions on their broadcasting licence. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has produced a report reciting a litany of
Australia’s ‘strategic infantilisation’ by the US is undermining our security in Asia

Australia’s ‘strategic infantilisation’ by the US is undermining our security in Asia

Agonising about Australia’s place in the scheme of things has been the principal pastime of policymakers since our notional independence. As Michael Wesley argues persuasively in Blind Spot: Southeast Asia and Australia’s Future, our “government and society suffer from a form of strategic long sightedness”. We reflexively identify with

Regulator slaps restrictions on Kyle and Jackie O if they ever return to radio. Will it make any difference?

Regulator slaps restrictions on Kyle and Jackie O if they ever return to radio. Will it make any difference?
If the ARN radio network’s KIISFM stations want to resurrect Kyle Sandilands or Jackie “O” Henderson, either together, singly or in partnership with someone else, they will face significant new conditions on their broadcasting licence. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has produced a report reciting a litany of

Australia’s ‘strategic infantilisation’ by the US is undermining our security in Asia

Australia’s ‘strategic infantilisation’ by the US is undermining our security in Asia
Agonising about Australia’s place in the scheme of things has been the principal pastime of policymakers since our notional independence. As Michael Wesley argues persuasively in Blind Spot: Southeast Asia and Australia’s Future, our “government and society suffer from a form of strategic long sightedness”. We reflexively identify with