Backing Indigenous Ability is a federal government program to help to improve telecommunications and broadcasting services in remote Indigenous communities. This paper outlines the design principles the government intends to apply to the telecommunications area of the program and seeks comments on key elements and design of the program.

In this speech to the Australian Broadcasting Summit, ACMA’s recently appointed chair, Chris Chapman, outlines the purpose and direction of the new organisation, discusses a number of contemporary issues relevant to the broadcasting sector and and briefly raises what the authority sees to be a number of emerging issues.

In this speech to the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s annual conference, Graeme Samuel discusses the question of whether technological change is making many of our existing concerns about media regulation irrelevant.

Third Generation (3G) mobile telephone systems challenge regulatory policy because they represent a convergence of content, devices and networks, with many companies involved. Matthew L. James examines matters of industry development, appropriate content protection and misuse, regulatory controls and future network trends.

We are at a point in time where technological change and convergence could once again change the way consumers access news, information and entertainment, argues the ACCC chair, Graeme Samuel, in this address to the Melbourne Press Club Journalism 2005 Conference. Released 26 August 2005