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Podcast: The Grapevine
Episode: Should The Federal Government subsidise media organisations?
Description: On this episode of The Grapevine, Gary Dickson from Public Interest Journalism Initiative discusses the closure of news rooms across Australia in the wake of COVID-19,an online resource mapping the changes in media availability and explores the question of whether the Federal Government should step in and subsidise media organisations struggling during COVID-19.And what does the government’s industry and worker support package mean for the causal female workforce? Mary Crooks, Executive Director of the Victorian Women’s Trust Women breaks down how the pandemic is disproportionately affecting women at work and in their daily life.<...