Recent publications
Future use of unassigned television channels
Australian spectrum policy is largely characterised by a 'command and control' approach to allocation. Such a top-down approach is ill-suited to managing the implementation and diffusion of technological innovations, nowhere more so than in the...
Meeting the Digital Challenge
Relatively recent far-reaching technological changes in media content production and delivery have exacerbated the adverse efficiency effects of the regulation of the Australian media. The upshot has made it more urgent to implement a major...
Media needs major reform, not minor tweaking
Proposals for media reform are same old same old. What is needed is massive radical deregulation.
Fashion and Foreign Aid
A realistic look at the "digital divide".
Can the future be made future-proof?
Why Can't We Use Our Mobile Phones on Planes?
Myths of the Corporate Media
The Revolution in Telecommunications
On the Trail of Burke and Wills
If there is a problem with telecommunications in the bush, then it was not obvious to this author on his recent 'Burke and Wills' trip. Indeed, that also holds for other things we take for granted in the cities.
Regulating Telecommunications: Trade Practices Overkill
The growing burden of telecommunications regulations has created delays, inequities, excessive costs and you guessed it...yet more regulation.