With convergence potentially opening up a vast array of new channels for the distribution of audio visual and print entertainment, news, information and opinion, the challenge for the ACCC will be to promote competition and not allow incumbents to impede the development of competitive choices for consumers, argues Graeme Samuel in this speech to the...

This report explores how pervasive media multitasking is among young people, potential cognitive and social development implications, and which teens are most likely to multitask. As well as the full report this site features a related forum where participants included executives from MTV and eMarketer, a leading market research firm, along with one of the...

This paper explains why the current patchwork of media and advertising regulation is failing to prevent the premature sexualisation of Australian children. A number of improvements are proposed based on a review of current regulatory arrangements for the areas most responsible for the sexualisation of children: girls' magazines, television and outdoor advertising, and television programs...

ACMA has released the first two in a series of fact sheets relating to its key priority tasks resulting from the media law reforms and has set up an email update service on its website. The first two in the series are titled 'Media Reform: Key Concepts' and 'Media Reform ? Digital TV Standards Development'.

As citizens in a democracy we rely on the media to scrutinise the actions and decisions of those in power. We therefore need media that is independent and diverse; capable of putting the public interest above the interests of media owners, whether those owners are governments or shareholders. As members of the 'imagined community' we...