
Author : Alasdair Grant (ed)
Date : 2/2004
An accessible but comprehensive overview of Australia’s telecommunications regulatory framework. Written by experienced insiders, it describes the laws and policies affecting competitors and consumers, and the regulatory and self-regulatory bodies that administer them.
The third edition of this book provides an accessible but comprehensive overview of Australia's telecommunications regulatory framework. Written by experienced insiders, it describes the laws and policies affecting competitors and consumers, and the regulatory and self-regulatory bodies that administer them.
The book describes:
- the underlying policy context for the staged transformation of the Australian telecommunications environment from a regulated monopoly to one of open competition
- classifications of industry sectors and the features, rights and obligations pertaining to each
- the regulation of competition, mainly pursuant to the telecommunications-specific provisions of the Trade Practices Act (administered by the ACCC)
- the administration of radiofrequency spectrum, used to provide wireless services such as mobile telephony and satellite broadcasting
- consumer issues, including price caps for basic services, consumer protection schemes, the 'universal service' provisions and the ombudsman scheme
This fully revised third edition features a new chapter on interconnection pricing. Written by Australia's leading experts in the field, Professors Stephen King and Joshua Gans, this chapter explains the basic underlying economic concepts of the regulation of competition in network and other utility industries. Featuring an expanded index for ease of referencing, this new edition incorporates all recent legislative reforms and policy initiatives, including those affecting the telecommunications competition regime, and discusses recent key decisions of the ACCC and other agencies.
Paperback : 320 pages
Publisher : University of New South Wales Press
Edition : 3rd (1 February 2004)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0868407747
ISBN-13 : 978-0868407746
Dimensions : 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
Shipping weight : 1.1 pounds

Author : Robert Manne
Date : 5/2005
Left Right Left collects the high points from a lifetime of writing, including essays that have won the George Watson, Alfred Deakin and Queensland Premier's prizes.
Manne's political trajectory - from right to left - has been an unusual and intriguing one. In the course of it, he has written definitive accounts of many of the key public controversies of the past thirty years - from the Cold War to the Iraq War, from the stolen generations to the asylum seekers, from Australian party politics to the culture wars. His two Quarterly Essays, "In Denial" and "Sending them Home", are published here complete, as are controversial discussions of political correctness, pornography and euthanasia as well as gentler thoughts on childhood, the university and the Geelong Football Club. There is also an array of passionate and entertaining essays on subjects ranging from Geoffrey Blainey to Paul Keating, Helen Garner to George Orwell, Pauline Hanson to Noel Pearson.
Paperback : 534 pages
Publisher : Black Inc
Language : English
ISBN : 9781863951425








