Im at Usyd doing media and communications and disgree with this viewpoint. The main point of difference that Usyd offers is that you can pursue an arts major and a business major as well as media and comm--which you spend a semester on each media area (i.e radio broadcasting, public relations...
Stillwell is great!
However, he is in the faculty of arts--which is what USyd has its reputation for (as well as law).
as for business, I was sitting in a lecture the other day and someone had ingrained into the desk: 'the faculty of economics and business is an immigration scam'--enough said.