Research plan
“You can be the Queen of the screen or the sovereign of print, but not both”
Paul Keating
My research paper looks at the intersection between the way in which Parliament makes laws and public expectations will specifically examine media ownership in Australia, the lack of reform despite significant public debate and changing public trust in media, and the failure of successive governments to properly balance community values and expectations and the changes to the media landscape.
I will break my essay into the following parts and research my paper accordingly:
Establishing the legislative process in Australia
Examining media regulation over time
Assessing the relevance of those reforms to a modern country
My challenges have …show more content…
The supreme law under which the Commonwealth of Australia is governed is the Australian Constitution Act 1900, an act of the British parliament. Australia’s constitution was established following an 1899 referendum in which the colonies, now states, on the Australian continent combined to form the Commonwealth of Australia.
At the same time, the Constitution established the Commonwealth as a federation of states and as a self-governing nation. Section 51 and 52 of the Constitution establish the principles of this federation and give legislative powers to the Federal Parliament either concurrently or exclusively of State Parliaments (Ward & Stewart 2013). Thus, the law applicable in Australia comprises both acts of Federal Parliament and of acts of State Parliaments.
Commonwealth law must be made, or a current law changed or repealed, by an Act of Parliament. Under Australia's Constitution, the Federal Parliament makes laws on a range of matters. Among others, these include social security; tax collection; immigration; marriage and separation; budget and financial measures; and …show more content…
Its constraints became noticeable with the development of the new medium pay television. After the introduction of pay television, there was a battle between suppliers Galaxy, Austar, and the primary player Foxtel (Healey 2013). The part-ownership of Foxtel by media giant News Corporation put cross-media proprietorship rules to the test because while the laws sought to diversify media ownership as they had in free-to-air television, Foxtel was half-owned by the biggest newspaper business in Australia. The Hawke reforms were clearly in need of an
“You can be the Queen of the screen or the sovereign of print, but not both”
Paul Keating
My research paper looks at the intersection between the way in which Parliament makes laws and public expectations will specifically examine media ownership in Australia, the lack of reform despite significant public debate and changing public trust in media, and the failure of successive governments to properly balance community values and expectations and the changes to the media landscape.
I will break my essay into the following parts and research my paper accordingly:
Establishing the legislative process in Australia
Examining media regulation over time
Assessing the relevance of those reforms to a modern country
My challenges have …show more content…
The supreme law under which the Commonwealth of Australia is governed is the Australian Constitution Act 1900, an act of the British parliament. Australia’s constitution was established following an 1899 referendum in which the colonies, now states, on the Australian continent combined to form the Commonwealth of Australia.
At the same time, the Constitution established the Commonwealth as a federation of states and as a self-governing nation. Section 51 and 52 of the Constitution establish the principles of this federation and give legislative powers to the Federal Parliament either concurrently or exclusively of State Parliaments (Ward & Stewart 2013). Thus, the law applicable in Australia comprises both acts of Federal Parliament and of acts of State Parliaments.
Commonwealth law must be made, or a current law changed or repealed, by an Act of Parliament. Under Australia's Constitution, the Federal Parliament makes laws on a range of matters. Among others, these include social security; tax collection; immigration; marriage and separation; budget and financial measures; and …show more content…
Its constraints became noticeable with the development of the new medium pay television. After the introduction of pay television, there was a battle between suppliers Galaxy, Austar, and the primary player Foxtel (Healey 2013). The part-ownership of Foxtel by media giant News Corporation put cross-media proprietorship rules to the test because while the laws sought to diversify media ownership as they had in free-to-air television, Foxtel was half-owned by the biggest newspaper business in Australia. The Hawke reforms were clearly in need of an