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3 days ago | 
capitalbrief.com | John Buckley |Anthony Galloway
The polling firm has media partnerships with UK-based City AM, New Zealand's The Post, and the Australian Financial Review. Polling firm Freshwater Strategy is poised to retain at least two of its three major media partners despite criticism of its work in the lead up to the Coalition’s historic 2025 federal election defeat.
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1 week ago | 
capitalbrief.com | Anthony Galloway |John Buckley
The Liberal Party's pollster has faced intense scrutiny and a fierce backlash since the election loss. Now it's set to lose, or walk away, from one of its biggest contracts. In the final days of the federal election campaign, Peter Dutton and senior Liberals believed they had a secret weapon: numbers no one else could see.
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1 month ago | 
capitalbrief.com | John Buckley |Finn McHugh
Social media creators are playing a strong role in the election. They say Labor has been more proactive than the Coalition in trying to reach their audiences. In the lead-up to the federal election, Labor has moved aggressively to cultivate content creators, social media influencers and podcasters in a bid to reach younger and “low information” voters before polling day. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has already appeared on about a dozen podcasts.
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2 months ago | 
capitalbrief.com | John Buckley |Finn McHugh |Anthony Galloway
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are set to square off in the first debate hosted by the public broadcaster in two election cycles. Campaign directors for Labor and the Coalition have agreed to let the ABC host Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton in one of up to four official leaders’ debates in the lead up to polling day.
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2 months ago | 
capitalbrief.com | John Buckley |Anthony Galloway
BriefingElection Showdown1:03pm on 1 April 2025The news: The Coalition has written to Labor to finalise arrangements for four official leaders’ debates in the lead up to polling day, following negotiations kicked off with the networks earlier this year.
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2 months ago | 
capitalbrief.com | Laurel Henning |John Buckley
Meta has pushed back against a Treasury request for feedback on whether social media should be prioritised under proposed digital competition rules. Meta has sharply criticised a Treasury request for feedback on whether social media services should be prioritised in the development of new digital competition rules, claiming it does not hold market power in digital advertising.
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2 months ago | 
capitalbrief.com | John Buckley |Laurel Henning
TikTok has used its response to consultation over Treasury's 'ex-ante' digital competition regime to take a swipe at YouTube and Google. TikTok has for a second time taken aim at Labor’s decision to offer YouTube an exemption from its new social media age restrictions and claimed the move would further entrench Google’s market power.
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2 months ago | 
capitalbrief.com | Laurel Henning |John Buckley
Angelo Pandeli has settled his case against News Corp's Australian tabloids, wrapping up the first defamation lawsuit of 2025. Four months after beginning his defamation proceedings against News Corp Australia's Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph and The Advertiser, Angelo Pandeli has settled his case. In a statement to Capital Brief, Pandeli’s lawyer, Paul McGirr, said, "the matter has now been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the parties.
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2 months ago | 
capitalbrief.com | Laurel Henning |John Buckley
The e-commerce giant has submitted the first in a wave of corporate responses to Labor’s 'ex-ante' plan, which adds a new front to Australia’s battle with US tech giants. Amazon has argued that Labor’s plans to introduce broad new digital competition rules targeting tech giants would stifle innovation and hinder productivity. The claim is detailed in Amazon’s submission to a Treasury consultation process on a new 'ex-ante' framework, announced by Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones late last year.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
capitalbrief.com | John Buckley |Daniel Van Boom
TikTok argues that Labor's decision to give YouTube a blanket exemption from its new social media age rules would entrench the platform's market dominance. TikTok has warned that Labor’s decision to offer YouTube a carve out from its new social media age restrictions would further entrench Google’s market power and give its video platform a monopoly on users under 16 years old.
