Importantly, it outlines the practical individual policy steps that government can take in order to achieve the outcome of accessible broadband for all. Within a relatively short period of time, broadband services have ceased to be a luxury and are now a necessity for most Australians. However, the availability of high quality services is geographically...

So the Net is now coming into its own. It's shaking up traditional media, especially television, less so newspapers, books and magazines, writes Julian Thomas.

In this report on the take up of broadband access services on Telstra's copper network the ACCC provides details of the take up of these broadband access services between metropolitan, regional and rural areas. The data shows three quarters of these services and the bulk of unconditioned local loop services (ULLS) and line sharing services...

This report explores the causal relationship between computer ownership and high school graduation and other educational outcomes. Teenagers who have access to home computers are 6 to 8 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school than teenagers who do not have home computers after controlling for individual, parental, and family characteristics. Although computers...

Generational divide and user interaction