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The Institute of Public Affairs Telecommunications and Media Unit looks at the possibilities of new technology, and the outdated regulatory frameworks which hold them back.
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The dichotomy of Wikileaks
Does Julian Assange understand the significance of what he is doing? Perhaps not. The Australian editor in chief of Wikileaks has published some...
Privacy pose shows the minister is off his Facebook
It must have felt nice for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy not to be the bad guy. Just for a little while. At a Senate estimates hearing...
ABC 24-hour news plan will cripple diversity
The announcement by ABC managing director Mark Scott of a new 24-hour, seven-day-a-week television news channel will harm Australia's media...
Filter our freedom of speech right
The new mandatory filtering regime proposed by the Government is the kind of election pledge most wish the Government would just forget about. It...
Not the Voice to Sell Our Values
In last Thursday's Bruce Allen Memorial Lecture, ABC managing director Mark Scott called for a significant expansion of the ABC as a global media...
Consumerist kiddies? Come on, give them a little credit
There's a lot of rage directed at the advertising industry. The comedian Bill Hicks famously told his audience: "If anyone here is in marketing or...
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...
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...
