Recent publications
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...
Broadcasting Planning and Entrenched Protection of Incumbent Broadcasters
Broadcasting planning and licensing should be primarily a technical function facilitating orderly operation of broadcasting services. Instead, policy makers and regulators have used it as a tool for economic control of the nature and rate of...
Editorial, December 1999
In the long history of blatantly protectionist decisions on the media, the Howards Government's decision on digital broadcasting takes the prize.
Media Regulation in Australia and the Public Interest