Communications policy


Streams, digital dreams and regulatory gaps

Regulating the internet like TV is suddenly on the agenda again. But we’ve been here before.

Advice for Malcolm: start with consumers

Everyone’s talking about Malcolm Turnbull and the NBN but Turnbull’s return suggests a real chance to end the obsession with incumbents in communications policy.

Errington: Communications policy requires more attention

Communications policy under the present government has been nothing short of diabolical. Communication is vital to a healthy democracy, yet media and telecommunications policies rarely gets a look-in during an election campaign, writes Wayne Errington.

Telstra: the very model of a modern media mogul

The entry of Telstra into the election campaign is worrying and even frightening. Even Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch would not have been quite as naked in pushing a self-interested political point of view as Telstra has been over the last few weeks, writes Margaret Simons.