Consultation and submissions

The discussion paper for the Do Not Call Register - Eligibility requirements for registration on the Do Not Call Register is now closed.

Find information about consultations and calls for submissions relating to the Australian Government's plans to establish a new open access, high-speed, fibre-based broadband network.

Submissions have been called on policy and funding initiatives to provide enhanced access to broadband services to rural and remote areas.

Backing Indigenous Ability

A $90 million Australian Government initiative, part of the $1.1 billion Connect Australia package, to help improve communications services in remote Indigenous communities. It will include support for telephones, Internet and videoconferencing, online content and training and a discussion paper on these elements was released in March 2006. The submissions received in response to that paper are now helping to shape the program guidelines.

Find examples of how the adoption of ICT can assist the community sector.

A paper intended to facilitate discussion in relation to clarifying arrangements for the use of IPND information for the provision of LDCS.

Mobile Connect will provide support for further extension of terrestrial mobile phone coverage in regional Australia and will extend funding for the Satellite Phone Subsidy Scheme.

Draft legislative instruments to be made by the Minister establishing key aspects of a scheme governing access to data in the IPND for the purpose of publishing and maintaining a telephone directory and conducting public interest research.

On 16 October 2008, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, announced the release of a discussion paper as part of a review of Australia’s two national broadcasters, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS).

Review of the Australian Government Indigenous Broadcasting Program Discussion Paper

A national perspective on the future of the IBP and its funding arrangements.

This paper has been created to canvass, from a national perspective, issues relevant to the IBP in terms of approaches to future funding for eligible funding recipients.

Under subsection 103ZJ(3) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 (BSA), the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts conducted a review relating to Australian and New Zealand content on subscription television broadcasting services.

Community Radio National Listener Survey (File format: PDF, file size: 471Kb)

The 2006 National Listener Survey contains the results of a large-scale survey of the Australian population conducted in order to measure the size of the audience of community radio throughout Australia. The research was funded by the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA), via the Community Broadcasting Foundation Ltd (CBF).

The 2004 Community Radio National Listener Survey (File format: PDF, file size: 437Kb)

The 2004 Community Radio National Listener Survey is also available online.

The Department is seeking submissions to the Discussion Paper to inform development of legislative changes to implement a digital switchover timetable.