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The Institute of Public Affairs Telecommunications and Media Unit looks at the possibilities of new technology, and the outdated regulatory frameworks which hold them back.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
Myths of the Corporate Media
The ABC's Paralysis on Bias
The Revolution in Telecommunications
Triumph of the Swill
Anti-American Biased Perspective: Your ABC and the Iraq War
This Backgrounder, written by two professional journalists with decades of experience between them, looks at the broader scope of the ABC’s coverage. Looking at transcripts freely available on the ABC’s...
Regulating Telecommunications: Trade Practices Overkill
The growing burden of telecommunications regulations has created delays, inequities, excessive costs and you guessed it...yet more regulation.
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