On 8 November 2023, millions of Australians were reminded just how precarious digital connectivity can be as the country's second largest network provider, Optus, suffered a 12-hour unplanned nationwide outage. This inquiry examined the network outage and its impact on Australians and the services that they rely on.

This report outlines findings from a study conducted with Australian children aged 7-9 to determine how they use and find content on streaming platforms, their levels of technical fluency with these platforms, and whether they gravitate towards, are able to find, and are culturally literate with Australian content on these platforms. It found that Australian...

This report outlines updated findings from the Mapping the Digital Gap project's second research visit to Tennant Creek and the seven town camps, that encircle the town. This Update Report is intended to assist local and regional agencies, leaders and residents to better understand barriers to digital inclusion, develop local strategies to address these barriers...

Court reporting is an important historical function of journalism. In part, this is due to news media’s role in enabling open justice, the goal described as ‘justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done’. This report is based on a six-month analysis of court reporting in regional New South Wales...

This backgrounder provides an overview of the Australian government’s approach to online safety for children and outlines a sample of children’s online safety measures in other jurisdictions.