Communications
Alternative labels
Mass communication
Communications media
Communications policy
Report
Women in media industry insight report 2025
The report provides a snapshot of the experience of women working in Australia’s media sector. It finds career dissatisfaction is at a new high, with more women considering leaving their jobs and fewer seeing viable pathways to progress.
Report
Children and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Australia
This report highlights nine of the most urgent challenges and issues in terms of everyday use of GenAI tools, especially when children might be using these systems. All of these are in urgent need of greater research, including hearing more from children and young people about how they use, and how they wish to (or...
Guide
Building competency: suggested competencies for supporting people with deafness or hearing loss
A practical guide designed to help professionals provide more inclusive, respectful, and effective support to people who are Deaf, deaf, hard of hearing or have hearing loss. The guide outlines core competencies based on lived experience, including understanding the emotional impacts of hearing loss, communicating clearly, respecting individual communication preferences, and using trauma-informed, culturally aware...
Guide
Everyday communication: tips for supporting people with deafness or hearing loss
A practical, easy-to-follow guide designed to help Australians communicate more inclusively with people who are Deaf, deaf, hard of hearing, or have hearing loss. This tip sheet offers straightforward, real-world advice such as facing the person, reducing background noise, speaking clearly (not loudly), and asking individuals how they prefer to communicate.
Journal article
Shifting focus to adolescent wellbeing and inclusive participation in the digital age
This paper highlights the need for a holistic approach to digital health that promotes adolescent wellbeing across multiple domains. It argues specific policy changes, multisectoral collaboration and working in direct partnership with adolescents to create safe, supportive and equitable digital environments are required to address the digital determinants of health in Australia.