This annual report provides a snapshot of the 2015–16 year for the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner.

Some of the ACMA's highlights for the year include: 

• Registration of a new Commercial Television Code of Practice in November 2015;

• Report on the place of citizens and consumers in the networked society was examined in an occasional paper, The connected citizen—A disruptive concept informing ACMA perspectives published in February 2016; 

• Release of a new mobile broadband strategy and workplan in February 2016, capping a decade-long program of work to identify and plan spectrum for mobile broadband;

• The ACMA led Australia’s delegation to the month-long International Telecommunication Union 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-15) in Geneva, which will form an important foundation of the ACMA’s spectrum planning for the next four years. 

• The authority will continue to play a central role in moving to a single, national, streamlined and more exible approach to radiocommunications licensing which is under way, following the government’s announcement in August 2015 that it will adopt all 11 of the recommendations proposed under the Spectrum Review completed in March that year.