---
title: "Submission to the Independent Media Inquiry"
author: "Berg, C."
date: "2011-10-01"
url: "https://chrisberg.org/2011/10/submission-to-the-independent-media-inquiry/"
type: "Submissions and reports"
published_in: "Institute of Public Affairs"
pdf: "https://chrisberg.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/BERG_IndependentMediaInquirySubmission.pdf"
topics: "Media"
---

# Submission to the Independent Media Inquiry

**Introduction: **The Independent Inquiry into Media and Media Regulation raises troubling freedom of speech and freedom of the press issues. A free and independent press is an absolute necessity for a functioning democracy, and freedom of speech is one of the basic foundations of individual liberty.

[Available in PDF here.](https://chrisberg.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/BERG_IndependentMediaInquirySubmission.pdf)