Recent publications
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...
Unbinding Book Barriers: Why Australia should scrap parallel import restrictions on books
The Productivity Commission is considering whether to liberalise Australia's parallel import restrictions for books. Unbinding Book Barriers finds that prices of books could fall by more than 30 per cent, without harming authors, Australian...
Is Facebook making our kids violent?
Moral panic is never too far away from the Australian media. The widespread claims that the internet is corrupting youth and encouraging violent behaviour completely misunderstands technology, the people who use it and the nature of crime itself....
Regretting privatisation: broadband and the 2007 election
Big Brother vs Big Brother
SiCKO: Michael Moore's latest fantasy
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.
Submission to the Inquiry into the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Media Ownership) Bill 2006