Media, Telecommunications and IT Unit
Economics & Deregulation / Media, Telecommunications and IT Unit
New technologies have shaken up the telecommunications and media industry by bringing a wealth of new services and products to consumer. Technological innovation pervades all industries, and Australians benefit from the greater choice and competition available.
However the regulatory frameworks which govern this important sectors have changed little. The Institute of Public Affairs Telecommunications and Media Unit looks at the possibilities of new technology, and the outdated regulatory frameworks which hold them back.
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Publications
Submission to Australian Law Reform Commission National Classification Scheme Review
Submission to Australian Law Reform Commission National Classification Scheme Review
Where's ABC?
The Federal Government's reappointments to the board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation put a political showpiece ahead of corporate commonsense. In an attempt to demonstrate that it could go where no other government had gone...
The Hollowmen and the sport of satire
What does our television tell us about Australian democracy? Over time, spin becomes truth. In the ABC's new satire The Hollowmen, political advisors find that they can no longer tell the difference, even to themselves, between spin and the...
Regretting privatisation: broadband and the 2007 election
Big Brother vs Big Brother
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.
The EU's attempt to design software
Windows Vista has been greeted with a stack of new antitrust accusations
Submission to the Inquiry into the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Media Ownership) Bill 2006