What does $25 million worth of consultancy conclude about the national broadband network, asks Jock Given.

Jock Given, a Screenrights founding director and Professor of Media and Communications at Swinburne University's Institute for Social Research, looks at the last 20 years in Australian television.

In its April 2008 Review of Australia's Consumer Policy Framework, the Productivity Commission identified problems with the coverage of the various schemes for handling consumer complaints about communications services. It raised a number of longer-term possibilities, including 'a single consumer entry point for communications services complaints', or an 'umbrella arrangement encompassing all individual dispute resolution...

This talk considers the origins of a broadband plan and asks who will benefit and who will pay for it.

Digital radio's delayed introduction could mean the future has been created by other audio media, writes Jock Given.