Departmental media staff have an important job to do, but have been muzzled. Inside the public service, information spinners have stopped. Here’s how it happened

Public affairs teams can range from a single person to massive teams of people. Their work and experience in government is very different to most public servants. Bernard Keane and Jennine Khalik look into the world of political spinners for Inq — the new investigative journalism initiative from Private Media, the publisher of Mandarin Premium.

Australia’s other army: the government bureaucrats who spin, obscure and feed the media

Behind the scenes in Canberra, an army of taxpayer-funded media advisers pump out information that serves their parties’ agendas — and obscure information that doesn’t.