Reactive, Not Proactive: Recent Trends In Australian Broadcasting Regulation
Carolyn Lidgerwood · Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform · 2002
T his paper explores how the introduction of digital technologies and the resulting convergence of broadcasting services with other communications services is challenging the current broadcasting regulatory regime in Australia.As the Productivity Commission ( 2000) recently observed:With advances in digital technology, broadcasting, telecommunications and the Internet are converging rapidly.They are being fundamentally redefined in terms of what they are, who provides services, and how they are produced and delivered.Broadcasting … is not what it was when the Broadcasting Services Act was introduced in 1992.