This report provides an overview of infrastructure, applications, social and economic trends and developments, and anticipated developments over the next five to ten years. provides an overview of infrastructure, applications, social and economic trends and developments, and anticipated developments over the next five to ten years. The report focuses on developments since the release of...

This paper argues that, irrespective of the statutory framework, native title claims are best and most expeditiously resolved by negotiation and consent when the National Native Title Tribunal and the Federal Court work cooperatively and in a complementary fashion. The case of the negotiation and resolution by consent of the Thalanyji claim is used to...

In their submission to the ABC and SBS Review, currently in progress, Stuart Cunningham and Terry Flew argue that how national public broadcasters respond to changes in the media environment arising from digitisation, convergence and changing societal needs and expectations can be best understood as a question of social innovation.

HOW many submissions from the public constitute an overwhelming response? Last Friday the federal government released more than 2400 submissions to its review of public broadcasting, and the claim has been made that this demonstrates overwhelming public involvement. Yet twelve years ago when Bob Mansfield conducted his inquiry into the future of the ABC he...

Using Delhi's media networks as an example, the author suggests that new domains of nonlegal networks could pose significant problems for classic strategies of incorporation and management in political society. These nonlegal domains open up new spaces of disorder and constant conflict in Indian cities that threaten the current self-perceptions of the globalizing elite.