A key role of the Commissioner for Senior Victorians is to advise and report to the Victorian Government on priority policy issues affecting senior Victorians. This year, the Minister for Housing, Disability and Ageing, Martin Foley MP, requested consideration of the issue of loneliness and isolation of older people, including the role of volunteering in...

Martin Moore, Senior Research Fellow at King's College London, asks readers to imagine if on June 23 this year British citizens looking at google.co.uk found the words '#VoteIn' towards the bottom of the search page. Moore claims that most of us still think of Google – and the services of other tech giants such as...

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...

Over the past three decades, the capabilities and adoption of mobile technologies have grown substantively. They have gone from being a novelty to become ubiquitous; an essential tool for modern life. Today, faster connections and ubiquity mean that mobile devices are used for everything – from commerce and research to location-based services and games. The...

This snapshot has been developed to provide stakeholders with an overview of some of the ACMA’s broad and diverse activities, including: broadcasting, radiofrequency spectrum, telecommunications and unsolicited communications complaints, investigations and compliance work allocation and licencing regulatory work cybersecurity activities supporting the nbn the ACMA Customer Service Centre. The ACMA has a complex regulatory remit...