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‘I cannot recall in recent memory a more widely framed licence condition on an Australian broadcaster,’ the Australian Communications and Media Authority Chairman, Chris Chapman, said today.
‘The Authority feels this is the tightest licence condition that can be imposed on this licensee concerning matters of decency; and is 24/7, for five years, no exceptions.
‘Further, [...]
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The ACMA’s innovative cybersecurity program, the Australian Internet Security Initiative (AISI), has been recognised with a nomination in the ‘Best Security Initiative’ category of the AusCERT 2012 Australian Information Security Awards. The AISI is one of the world’s first public–private partnerships designed to reduce the impact of botnets.
Botnets are groups of computers infected by [...]
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Welcome to the 2012 edition of the ACMA’s Five-year spectrum outlook. Published for the first time as an electronic magazine, the Outlook is now more streamlined and easy to navigate.
The Outlook is an annual publication that considers the range of the radiofrequency spectrum from about 500 kHz to 80 GHz. Most of the competing [...]
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The agenda for RadComms2012 is now available. You can view this agenda here with full details of this year’s impressive line-up of session themes and speakers.
Continue Reading →Dr Compton Tucker, Senior Research Scientist in the Earth Sciences Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland, will lead the session on ‘Fingerprints of nature’ at RadComms2012. His presentation, ‘Observing climate with satellites—are we on thin ice?’, will highlight the importance of spectrum to our geological understand [...]
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Several presentations from the recent ‘Tuning in to kids TV’ forum, the second event in our Citizen conversations series—are now available, along with a summary report (Word 736Kb, PDF 297 Kb) of proceedings.
The half-day forum featured presentations from humorist and children’s author Wendy Harmer, industry stakeholders, child development experts, researchers and [...]
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We are excited to announce that Professor John Dickey will be speaking at RadComms2012, to be held in Melbourne on 6 and 7 June. Professor Dickey will be speaking in the opening session, ‘Fingerprints of nature’.
Radio astronomers find their way through the cracks and dark alleys of the spectrum, searching for quiet corners where they [...]
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If you need new phone, internet or security cabling in your home, make sure you do your homework first. We’ve developed some simple tips to help you hire a professional registered cabler who will perform this complicated work properly:
- Cabling providers must be appropriately registered and be able to produce a current registration identification [...] Continue Reading →
The ACMA is today releasing its indicative timetable for the reissue of expiring spectrum licences. The workplan is concentrated over the next four years and is scheduled according to licence expiry.
The ACMA’s objective is to provide reissue certainty to licensees 18 months prior to licence expiry, where possible. An important part [...]
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The rich history of the Australian media is now available at the touch of a button following the recent launch of two dedicated databases. The Centre for Media History at Sydney’s Macquarie University developed the resources, which are intended to help save important archival material, and to promote and document research into this neglected area [...]
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