Introduction: In its resolution 65/230, the General Assembly requested the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to establish, in line with paragraph 42 of the Salvador Declaration on Comprehensive Strategies for Global Challenges: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Systems and Their Development in a Changing World, an open-ended intergovernmental expert group, to conduct a...

As part of its fourth review report of the Joint Committee of the National Broadband Network, the committee examined and provided comment on: The NBN rollout through the fibre, satellite and fixed wireless networks and associated issues such as service delivery, community consultation, public education and engagement activities; KPIs included in the Shareholder Ministers’ six...

The online presence of tertiary libraries is becoming increasingly important, however, research (OCLC, 2010) suggests that library websites are being shunned in favour of commercial search engines. Some scholars (Reidsma, 2012; McCann et al., 2010) attribute this to poor website design. Websites are a valid communication concern and what content is displayed, as well as...

The 2012 Cyber Crime and Security Survey: Systems of National Interest was designed and conducted to obtain a better understanding of how cyber incidents are affecting the Australian businesses that form part of Australia’s systems of national interest, including critical infrastructure. These businesses and industries underpin the social and economic wellbeing of the nation and...

In 2005, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) examined international mobile roaming (IMR) services and concluded that the prices paid by Australian consumers appeared high. Subsequently, in 2009, the Australian House of Representatives’ Standing Committee on Communications released the report ‘Phoning Home: Inquiry into international mobile roaming’. One of its recommendations was that the...