The telecommunications policy process

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Title: The telecommunications policy process
Author(s): Barr, Trevor
Abstract: A fundamental power shift is underway in contemporary Australia - the deconstruction of the role of the state in ownership, policy and strategic thinking for the future. In telecommunications policy, we have replaced strategic thinking for the nation with ad hoc strategic planning by an array of intensely competitive companies. This article argues that we need to widen the framework of a plethora of public-interest groups pushing narrow sectional interest to much wider inputs in the overall policy process. We need to foster imaginative attempts at constructing national plans - of many different kinds - for Australia's communications future.
Publication type: Journal article
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Source: Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, No. 96 (Aug 2000), pp. 103-108
Publication year: 2000
Keyword(s): Australia; Broadband; Communications; Media policy; Telecommunications infrastructure
Publisher: Australian Key Centre for Cultural & Media Policy
ISSN: 1329-878X
Publisher URL: http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/index.html
Peer reviewed