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The Institute of Public Affairs Telecommunications and Media Unit looks at the possibilities of new technology, and the outdated regulatory frameworks which hold them back.
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News
Internet laws a sledgehammer approach to privacy
Legislators with little knowledge of internet privacy will do more harm than good. The protest against the American Stop Online Piracy Act...
Selling the ABC and other tricky media issues
The media talking about itself can be very self-indulgent not to mention annoying to outsiders. Yet the politics of media have exploded in the last...
For and against an ABC-run Australia Network
On Monday night the Federal Government killed off the tender process for the Australia Network contract. But debate continues over who should host...
Media inquiry motives: accountability or revenge?
Bob Brown's submission to the Independent Media Inquiry has an appendix of criticisms he's received in the press since calling for a media inquiry:...
Idealism turns us on, but reality bites
There's a particularly idiotic moment in the 2003 movie Love Actually when British Prime Minister Hugh Grant loses it. Grumpy at President Billy...
Bolt is guilty, but the law is wrong - let the markets deal with racial discrimination
Political activists and bad legislation have combined to create the extraordinary situation where eligibility for awards and prizes can't be...
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...
