In this address to Morgan Stanley Analysts, Ed Willett describes how, in light of the Minister for Communications’ discussion paper Meeting the digital challenge, the ACCC is considering how the Trade Practices Act would apply to cross media mergers in the event that the proposed reforms are adopted.

Andrew Macintosh challenges one of the central arguments in the federal government?s case for reforming cross-media ownership laws ? that new media sources, particularly the internet, will guarantee pluralism in Australian media. He shows that as little as one per cent of Australians rely on alternative media providers as their main source of news and...

Andrew Macintosh challenges one of the central arguments in the federal government’s case for reforming cross-media ownership laws – that new media sources, particularly the internet, will guarantee pluralism in Australian media. He shows that as little as one per cent of Australians rely on alternative media providers as their main source of news and...

In this article, Geoff Anderson and Haydon Manning find that although Labor is well in the lead, the SA Premier is avoiding anything resembling a risk.

In this speech to the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s annual conference, Graeme Samuel discusses the question of whether technological change is making many of our existing concerns about media regulation irrelevant.