In an age of globalisation, market deregulation and media convergence, the principles that have governed public and commercialo broadcasting in Australia are fast becoming redundant.
In an age of globalisation, market deregulation and media convergence, the principles that have governed public and commercial broadcasting in Australia are fast becoming redundant.

The rules, written and unwritten, that have kept Kerry Packer’s hands off Fairfax, stopped Rupert Murdoch from owning a television network or prevented the ABC from forming commercial partnerships were fine in a media landscape largely dominated by newspapers and free-to-air broadcasters.

However, those rules seem almost quaint in their failure to grasp the new reality that has come with the emergence of the internet.