1. Executive Salaries: A study
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...e top 7 executives got in the last set of financial data that was available. As at 1 July 2007, the Prime Minister of Australia was paid $330,300. David Kirk thinks he is worth 8 prime ministers...

2. Email Julia Gillard
(The Campaign/Actions)

...ard via email, try using one of the following methods. The Hon Julia Gillard Deputy Prime Minister; Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations; Minister for Education; Minist...

3. Caucus told Fairfax redundancies threaten democracy
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...y, says. Mr Murphy, who has a long-standing interest in media diversity issues, raised the matter with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during yesterday's caucus meeting. Read more ...

4. Fairfax journos quiz Kirk's pay rise
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...erday, asking why he was rewarding himself with a 23.8% pay rise to $3.41 million - the equivalent of 10 prime ministers or 30 top notch journalists. Kirk and co-CEO Brian McCarthy are paid more than ...

5. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Fairfax Media CEO David Kirk is worth two Australian prime ministers more in 2008 than he was in 2007 after getting a 23.8% pay increase. In the past 12 months, the Fairfax share price has plunged 40%

6. PM wants quality journalism to continue
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called on media companies not to abandon quality journalism as they wrestle with an increasingly digitalised media landscape. Media bosses met on the Gold Coast for the

7. Kirk speech fails to impress - Rudd targets exec pay
(The Campaign/In The News)

...Government plan to deal with the "extreme capitalism'' at the root of the global financial crisis. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd .... believes better rules are required to 'rein in any executive gre...

8. Deputy PM concerned
(The Campaign/In The News)

Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard told Paul Bongiorno on Ten Network's Meet The Press: "We want to see quality and diversity - certainly the Fairfax newspapers are part of our quality and diver

9. $3.4 million Kirk talks of belt-tightening
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...Fairfax Media's $3.4 million man, saw his pay jump 23.8% in 2008. He is now paid more than 10 Australian prime ministers. And on August 26 he and Brian McCarthy announced that 550 people would lose th...

10. More golden handcuffs?
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...ing the transition to the new CEO”.   Those two payments (just shy of the pay of two Australian prime ministers) would buy the equivalent of at least six top quality journalists - but instea...