Consultation and submissions

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.