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Mis/disinformation and multicultural media: the council election challenge

Victorian local councils hold their elections next month. At a time of increased misinformation and disinformation, just how can voters across a range of Victorian communities get access to accurate and helpful information that supports local democracy? And what role can multicultural media play in helping local voters?

Reporting on state elections

The Edit

SYN Media is partnering with the Melbourne Press Club to bring ‘Reporting on state elections’ to young journalists ahead of the 2022 Victorian election.

The Edit: US Election Special

The Edit

Watch our Edit event featuring Mike Amor and a special pre-record with Ebony Bowden

31st Quill Awards – Finalists

Featured

The MPC is pleased to announce the finalists for our 31st Quill Awards for Excellence in Victorian Journalism and the 2025 Victorian Student Journalist of the Year.

Quills - Judging Criteria

Read the category criteria for the 31st Quill awards

28th Quills: Multicultural Affairs and Media in partnership with Gandel Foundation

Achol Arok and Daniel Ziffer of ABC News won the 2022 Multicultural Affairs and Media Quill for their work “So-called 'African gangs' dominated headlines at the last Victorian election and trust issues remain”

Lawyers Lament Politicians Tough Talk on Crime

MPC Event

MPC Election Forum told mandatory sentencing won’t solve violent offending

Melbourne’s Mayoral Candidates Meet the Press

MPC Event

Forum details policy priorities in city by-election.

Political cartooning - the end of an era

Newspaper cartoons are no longer major components of the central forum that they were in the era of mass media, Robert Phiddian and Haydon Manning write in The Conversation.

Chapter 3. A remarkable editor

On 14 December, 1976, there was a lunch in the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria that was to give new prestige to the Melbourne Press Club. The memory of Graham Perkin was very fresh in all our minds. Perkin, editor-in-chief of The Age, died suddenly of a heart attack on 16 October, 1975. He was 45.

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Mis/disinformation and multicultural media: the council election challenge

Reporting on state elections

The Edit: US Election Special

31st Quill Awards – Finalists

Quills - Judging Criteria

28th Quills: Multicultural Affairs and Media in partnership with Gandel Foundation

Lawyers Lament Politicians Tough Talk on Crime

Melbourne’s Mayoral Candidates Meet the Press

Political cartooning - the end of an era

Chapter 3. A remarkable editor

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