ACMA has approved the Mobile Premium Services Self-Regulatory Scheme, which provides a range of new protections around mobile premium content for adults and children. It has been developed by mobile phone companies and providers of mobile content, and has benefited from a consultation process that helped identify all of the main issues for users of...

The government has annunced more than $3 million in Playing Australia touring performance funding. Playing Australia will fund close to 1250 performances in coming months.

In July, proposed changes to the current cross-media ownership and foreign media ownership laws were launched as part of a media reform package. In response, the ACCC published its views on protecting competition (and possibly diversity) in the context of anticipated mergers in rapidly developing media markets, which are outlined here by Karen Gibbons and...

This paper provides guidance on the ACCC's approach to media mergers under the federal government's proposed legislative changes. It discusses how the ACCC might consider such issues as the various dimensions of media markets - products, geographic and functional - as well as the relevant timeframe for considering media mergers.

This research note updates the details of federal government expenditure provided in June 2004. The controversy over the Howard government's WorkChoices advertising campaign is also outlined, and the findings of the Senate inquiry into government advertising.