Community television should be able to participate in the future of digital broadcasting and continue to develop the richness, diversity and experimentation which have characterised its growth to this point, argues the committee. Any delay in ensuring digital broadcasting would be irresponsible and fly in the face of all Australian government undertakings to date. A...

The final report of the TOCC is intended to assist in finding the best solution to Australia's work/cost of care challenge. Based on economic modelling and the TOCC's own surveys the taskforce makes 10 key findings.

This report argues for significant new commitments by the Commonwealth, state and territory governments under the CSDA, including substantial additional funding to address identified unmet need for specialist disability services, particularly for accommodation services and support.

This report examines rapid advances in information, communication, storage, surveillance and other relevant technologies; possible changing community perceptions of privacy and the extent to which privacy should be protected by legislation; the expansion of state and territory legislative activity in areas relevant to privacy; and emerging areas that may require privacy protection.

This report details a project to develop a national Needle and Syringe Program data set to facilitate consistent and comparable data collection and reporting. While jurisdictions have now been reporting information on NSPs for a number of years, there are concerns that the information reported by jurisdictions is currently not nationally consistent or comparable because...