Australia - Elections 2004 - Telecommunications Policies

Synopsis

On the one hand, I don’t expect that telecommunications will make or break the 2004 Federal Election, but, on the other, telecoms is an ideal vote-grabbing device. The Democrats are the first to come up with a set of solid, cutting-edge telecoms policies – policies that show vision. Labor has already gone down the vote-grabbing trail and the government is sticking (at least so far) to its single telecoms policy – the privatisation of Telstra. The report also includes the wish list of the industry’s leading lobby group, ATUG. This free report will be progressively updated during the campaign.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Final verdict
  
• 3. Setting the scene – Paul Budde
  
  • 3.1 For the Coalition:
    
  • 3.2 For the Opposition:
    
• 4. Paul’s Comments and Analyses on telco policies
  
  • 4.1 No new Coalition policies
    
  • 4.2 Labor telecoms initiatives
    
  • 4.3 Waiting for Labor’s telecoms policies
    
    • 4.3.1 Other telecom policies
      
    • 4.3.2 SafetyOnline
      
    • 4.3.3 E-Australia (IT policies)
      
    • 4.3.4 Media announcements
      
  • 4.4 Excellent broadband vision from the Democrats.
    
    • 4.4.1 The Democrats Broadband plan would:
      
• 5. ATUG’s Election Agenda
  
  • 5.1 ATUG’s Vision
    
  • 5.2 Competition
    
  • 5.3 Innovation
    
  • 5.4 Access
    
  • 5.5 Anti-competitive behaviour
    
  • 5.6 Broadband connectivity
    
  • 5.7 Mobiles
    
  • 5.8 Informed Choice
    
  • 5.9 Regional Communications
    
  • 5.10 International
    
• 6. AIIA’s manifesto
  
• 7. Other Comments
  
  • 7.1 The National Farmers Federation and Queensland National Party
    
• 8. Telecoms Policies from the different parties
  
• 9. The Democrats Policies
  
  • 9.1 The Democrats priorities in telecommunications:
    
  • 9.2 Telecommunications & Asia
    
  • 9.3 Broadband policies
    
  • 9.4 Broadband and IT
    
• 10. Related reports