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Nine, Ten mull joint cricket bid

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Original article by Darren Davidson
The Australian – Page: 26 & 28 : 19-Mar-18

Fox Sports will establish a cricket channel on Foxtel if its bid for cricket broadcasting rights is successful. Fox Sports bid includes Test and one-day international matches, as well as all Big Bash League matches except the finals. Meanwhile, the Nine and Ten networks are holding talks regarding a joint bid for broadcasting rights, while Seven West Media is also expected to bid. Cricket Australia has set a deadline of 19 March to submit bids, while Tennis Australia in turn is seeking bids for its broadcasting rights by 12 April.

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FOX SPORTS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, FOXTEL MANAGEMENT PTY LTD, NEWS CORP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, NEWS CORPORATION – ASX NWS, NINE NETWORK AUSTRALIA LIMITED, NINE ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY HOLDINGS LIMITED – ASX NEC, TEN NETWORK HOLDINGS LIMITED, CBS CORPORATION, SEVEN WEST MEDIA LIMITED – ASX SWM, BIG BASH LEAGUE, TENNIS AUSTRALIA, TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS, SINGTEL OPTUS PTY LTD, GOOGLE INCORPORATED, YOUTUBE INCORPORATED, FACEBOOK INCORPORATED, AMAZON.COM INCORPORATED

Forrest weighs return to High Court in cattle station battle

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Original article by Brad Thompson
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 4 : 16-Mar-18

Western Australia’s Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of Onslow Resources in the latest round of a legal dispute with mining magnate Andrew Forrest. The court has rejected an appeal by Forrest’s private company against the Supreme Court’s ruling that a licence associated with Onslow’s sand mining operations should be renewed. Onslow mines sand from the Ashburton River, which runs through Forrest’s Minderoo cattle station. A spokesman for Forrest says the businessman will consider appealing the decision.

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ONSLOW RESOURCES LIMITED, COURT OF APPEAL (WESTERN AUSTRALIA), FORREST AND FORREST, YARRI MINING PTY LTD, SUPREME COURT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF MINES, INDUSTRY REGULATION AND SAFETY, HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA, FORTESCUE METALS GROUP LIMITED – ASX FMG

Media call for spy laws rewrite

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Original article by Primrose Riordan, Sam Buckingham-Jones
The Australian – Page: 2 : 16-Mar-18

Media companies and the Law Council of Australia have raised further concerns about the Federal Government’s foreign interference laws in new submissions to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Intelligence & Security. The media industry argues that the bill is "deeply flawed" and it should be completely redrafted. The Law Council in turn has argued that the definition of some key terms in the draft bill need to be clarified, including "national security" and "news media".

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LAW COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA. JOINT PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, NEWS CORP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, NEWS CORPORATION – ASX NWS, FOXTEL MANAGEMENT PTY LTD, FOX SPORTS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, TEN NETWORK HOLDINGS LIMITED, SKY NEWS, THE GUARDIAN AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION, AUSTRALIA. ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S DEPT, HUMAN RIGHTS LAW CENTRE LIMITED

Carve-up of cricket TV rights looms

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Original article by John Stebbins, Max Mason
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 13 & 18 : 15-Mar-18

Cricket Australia has set a deadline of 19 March to submit bids for a new six-year deal for cricket broadcasting rights. The tender documents show that Cricket Australia is open to allowing some Test and one-day international matches in Australia to be broadcast exclusively on pay-TV. Cricket Australia proposes to offer up to 11 separate broadcast packages, with media companies being able to bid for some or all of them. This could enable the Nine Network to make a joint bid with Foxtel for all forms of the game or allow Seven to gain some cricket rights.

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CRICKET AUSTRALIA, NINE NETWORK AUSTRALIA LIMITED, NINE ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY HOLDINGS LIMITED – ASX NEC, FOXTEL MANAGEMENT PTY LTD, SEVEN NETWORK LIMITED, SEVEN WEST MEDIA LIMITED – ASX SWM, TEN NETWORK HOLDINGS LIMITED, CBS CORPORATION, BIG BASH LEAGUE, TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS, SINGTEL OPTUS PTY LTD, FACEBOOK INCORPORATED, AMAZON.COM INCORPORATED, TWITTER INCORPORATED

New spy laws still not good enough: Dreyfus

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Original article by Primrose Riordan
The Australian – Page: 2 : 14-Mar-18

Media companies have warned that journalists could still be jailed under draft amendments to the Federal Government’s proposed espionage laws. The amendments would provide limited legal protection for journalists who receive and report on classified information. The media industry’s joint submission argues that journalists would still be required to defend their actions in court. The Opposition’s legal affairs spokesman Mark Dreyfus says the amendments are flawed and will not be supported by Labor.

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AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIA. ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S DEPT, FAIRFAX MEDIA LIMITED – ASX FXJ, NEWS CORP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, NEWS CORPORATION – ASX NWS, AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, SPECIAL BROADCASTING SERVICE (SBS), AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS PTY LTD, MEDIA, ENTERTAINMENT AND ARTS ALLIANCE, WEST AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPERS HOLDINGS LIMITED

Exiting Bunnings UK is the least bad outcome for Scott

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Original article by Sue Mitchell
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 17 : 13-Mar-18

The recent Arctic-like weather that afflicted the UK and Ireland was a mixed blessing for Wesfarmers’ struggling Bunnings business there. The inclement weather did not help its nursery operations, but it did lead to increased demand for products like sand, salt and snow shovels. The impact of the bad weather may extend the time needed for the strategic review that Wesfarmers CEO Rob Scott announced into Bunnings UK and Ireland in February to be completed. JP Morgan has concluded that it will cost Wesfarmers less to pull out of the UK and Ireland than it will for it to stay there.

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WESFARMERS LIMITED – ASX WES, BUNNINGS GROUP LIMITED, JP MORGAN AUSTRALIA LIMITED, WOOLWORTHS GROUP LIMITED – ASX WOW

Back to the drawing board for Footy Show

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Original article by Darren Davidson
The Australian – Page: Online : 12-Mar-18

Nine director of sport Tom Malone is planning to make some tweaks to the rugby league version of the "Footy Show", after some aspects of the first program for 2018 were seen as somewhat underwhelming by viewers. The show underwent a number of changes during the off-season, with Erin Molan replacing Paul Vautin as host and former executive producer Glenn Pallister no longer with the show. Meanwhile, ratings for Nine’s first rugby league match of the season, which saw St George Illawarra Dragons beat the Brisbane Broncos 34-12, were down 5.6 per cent year-on-year.

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Network Ten focused on Big Bash League, Cricket Australia calls for bids by Easter

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Original article by Max Mason, John Stensholt
The Australian Financial Review – Page: Online : 12-Mar-18

Cricket Australia wants bids for its next broadcasting deal to be submitted by Easter, with tender details sent to interested parties in the week ending 9 March. Ten is said to be very keen to retain the rights to the Big Bash League, and could potentially bid as much as $A60 million a year. Nine and Fox Sports are understood to be planning a bid that would cover all Cricket Australia’s broadcasting rights, including the BBL. Cricket Australia is said to be seeking a deal of around $A150 million a year.

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CRICKET AUSTRALIA, TEN NETWORK HOLDINGS LIMITED, NINE ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY HOLDINGS LIMITED – ASX NEC, FOX SPORTS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, NEWS CORPORATION – ASX NWS, CBS CORPORATION, KORDA MENTHA AND COLLEAGUES PTY LTD

Wilson, Bauer quibble over costs

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Original article by Adam Cooper
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 16 : 9-Mar-18

The Supreme Court of Victoria has been told that a cost consultant has estimated that Bauer Media should be liable for about $A1.12m of the legal costs incurred by Hollywood star Rebel Wilson in a lengthy defamation lawsuit. Wilson’s legal costs arising from the case were around $A1.4m in total, and she is seeking to recover $A1.3m in costs from Bauer, in addition to the $A4.56m in damages it was ordered to pay after losing the defamation case.

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BAUER MEDIA AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, SUPREME COURT OF VICTORIA

Fairfax and NZME to hash out new merger terms

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Original article by Max Mason
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 18 : 7-Mar-18

Fairfax Media hopes to successfully challenge the New Zealand Commerce Commission’s decision to block the proposed merger of its NZ business with NZME. The two companies will appeal against a court ruling which upheld the Commerce Commission’s May 2017 decision to block the deal on competition grounds. However, Fairfax and NZME have terminated a September 2016 merger implementation agreement, and they will negotiate a new deal if their appeal succeeds.

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FAIRFAX MEDIA LIMITED – ASX FXJ, STUFF LIMITED, NZME LIMITED – ASX NZM, NEW ZEALAND. COMMERCE COMMISSION, HIGH COURT OF NEW ZEALAND