Writing in the Canberra Times, Christian Downie argues that the effective removal of cross media laws will jeopardise the health of Australia?s democracy by ensuring greater concentration of media ownership and a loss of media diversity. The permeation of the traditional media players into new media markets such as the internet reinforces the value of...

This report on the state of AM radio in Australia examines technical and transmitter site issues, as well as audience, profitability and ownership issues that affect the delivery of AM radio services in Australia. It also examines the potential future for AM radio in a digital environment.

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

Volume 11 number 2, 2003, contains articles on child protection and infant harm, empowering children through the arts, a report on sibling sexual abuse, and violence in the media and its effects on children.

Professor Pat Seyd, member of the International Advisory Committee of the Democratic Audit of Australia, has released major new findings that show citizens are not as disengaged as has been assumed in much of the recent literature on western democracies.