{"id":31091,"date":"2025-01-28T14:40:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=31091"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:40:56","slug":"australia-needs-acma-watchdog-not-corporate-lapdog-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/australia-needs-acma-watchdog-not-corporate-lapdog-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia needs ACMA watchdog, not corporate lapdog: Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Responding to<strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mcas-proxyweb.mcas.ms\/certificate-checker?login=false&amp;originalUrl=https%3A%2F%2Faus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com.mcas.ms%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmedia.greens.org.au%252Ft%252Fy-l-ctrtkiy-diijkutdg-y%252F%26data%3D05%257C02%257Cjake.wishart%2540aph.gov.au%257C79f10b5643ba4a92eba108dd3f4965a5%257Cf6214c153a9947d1b862c9648e927316%257C0%257C0%257C638736306667001230%257CUnknown%257CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%253D%253D%257C0%257C%257C%257C%26sdata%3DPxfhFl9hnoXbNsUQT61dvXk8s86yqUEhwj49gCRHrCI%253D%26reserved%3D0%26McasTsid%3D20893&amp;McasCSRF=d59d65491369ac7b63198c77806e2a678ab70925cd823a8f6335c77e47b7bfee\">reports today<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;that the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) reduced fines for Optus and colluded on their media strategy before going public<strong>, Greens Communications Spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>The public need to know they have a corporate watchdog with teeth, not a corporate lapdog. The truth is the ACMA has been too weak and too cosy with the big corporations it\u2019s tasked with regulating for too long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe ACMA is overdue for a thorough overhaul. They are supposed to regulate these big corporations, not collude with them on communications strategy. The ACMA should reveal the full list of every media statement they have consulted with industry and corporations on before releasing for public consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The regulator continues to show they are useless when it comes to holding media companies and telcos to account. They are like wet lettuce, whether it\u2019s Optus or the Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O show,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mcas-proxyweb.mcas.ms\/certificate-checker?login=false&amp;originalUrl=https%3A%2F%2Faus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com.mcas.ms%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmedia.greens.org.au%252Ft%252Fy-l-ctrtkiy-diijkutdg-j%252F%26data%3D05%257C02%257Cjake.wishart%2540aph.gov.au%257C79f10b5643ba4a92eba108dd3f4965a5%257Cf6214c153a9947d1b862c9648e927316%257C0%257C0%257C638736306667016838%257CUnknown%257CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%253D%253D%257C0%257C%257C%257C%26sdata%3DP%252FhmEKlD768e5rpM7B4Wf%252FQpR9qb5BtNQMGpb0jMrDY%253D%26reserved%3D0%26McasTsid%3D20893&amp;McasCSRF=d59d65491369ac7b63198c77806e2a678ab70925cd823a8f6335c77e47b7bfee\">as Senate Estimates heard recently.&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cComprehensive reform to communications and media regulation is long overdue, but sadly it has been squibbed by successive Governments. The agency needs a big broom through it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to&nbsp;reports today&nbsp;that the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) reduced fines for Optus and colluded on their media strategy before going public, Greens Communications Spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said: \u201cThe public need to know they have a corporate watchdog with teeth, not a corporate lapdog. The truth is the ACMA has been too weak &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/australia-needs-acma-watchdog-not-corporate-lapdog-greens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australia needs ACMA watchdog, not corporate lapdog: Greens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31092,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31091\/revisions\/31092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}