Recent publications
Regretting privatisation: broadband and the 2007 election
From the Editor, July 2007
It's not often that the conservative federal government and the ABC's Media Watch work together. But the two find common cause on free speech and the internet. The Communications Legislation Amendment (Content Services) Bill 2007 is...
Big Brother vs Big Brother
SiCKO: Michael Moore's latest fantasy
How the Panama Canal was built: A regulatory fable
It's still their ABC
The other flurry of media mergers
The media is big business. And the media online is just as big.
Submission to the Inquiry into the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Media Ownership) Bill 2006
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...