PM makes extraordinary intervention in tender process to stop Sky News winning contract to broadcast Australia's overseas TV service.

Having seen her partner's crushed car on TV, Jan Peardon could only wait helplessly in Brisbane for news.

More young Americans get their news from The Daily Show than watch the nightly TV news bulletins.

The newly powerful Greens leader, Bob Brown, has demanded to know why key ABC television news programs failed to cover his party during the federal election campaign.