Coping with change will require flexibility from both the media and regulators and that change will only continue to accelerate, argues the ACCC chair. But the legacy of that change is that technology and the growing swell of community input is placing the future of the industry in the hands of the public.

The Australian broadband network continues to grow rapidly despite the current "noise and bluster" about telecommunications competition and access regulation, according to the ACCC chair, Graeme Samuel, in this speech at the ATUG Annual Conference in Sydney.

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...

Australia’s media landscape is experiencing a period of tremendous change. The process of transformation has largely been driven by great advances in communications technology that are redefining how we produce and consume media – from home grown entertainment to news clips from the frontline of overseas conflicts says Graeme Samuel in his 2006 La Trobe...

Australia’s media landscape is experiencing a period of tremendous change. The process of transformation has largely been driven by great advances in communications technology that are redefining how we produce and consume media – from home grown entertainment to news clips from the frontline of overseas conflicts.