ACCAN CEO, Teresa Corbin, presented at the CommsDay Summit 2016 in Sydney on 4 April which brought together telco industry leaders and politicians from across the country to discuss topics including the NBN, fixed and wireless technologies and the market.

By linking censuses through time or by combining other information with the census, many more important policy questions can be answered than if we used one dataset alone. Summary Former Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) head Bill McLennan renewed the debate over privacy, data linkage and the census when he recently spoke of the major...

The reporting of the Panama Papers – which has been based on a massive global analysis of documents leaked from law firm, Mossack Fonseca, outlining how the world’s elite use tax havens, is a remarkable feat of collaboration which builds on several trends in investigative journalism.

This discussion paper considers the impacts of a rapidly changing communications environment on the existing communications accessibility framework. SummaryThe Department of Communications has issued a consultation paper: 'Communications accessibility: 2016 and beyond' and seeks submissions on the future of accessible telecommunications options, including reviewing the role of the National Relay Service and providing accessible services...

A consumer market hungry for data is driving competition and leading to better service offerings for Australians, according to two new reports. Prepared annually by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), the reports provide a snapshot of the fast paced and rapidly evolving communications sector. The Telecommunications Competitive Safeguards for 2014–15 report shows the...