Recent publications
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.
Reinvention- It's as Simple as ABC
If the ABC is to survive, it needs to stop its internal bickering, minimize union influence, recognize the primacy of audiences and devolve power.
Telecommunications in Regional and Remote Australia
In October of this year, the Telecommunications Service Inquiry report into service levels in the bush was released. The headlines flowing from this report were primarily to do with the implications for the full privatization of Telstra. The...