AUSTRALIAN MEDIA POLICY

In this essay I will discuss the main forms of media regulation in Australia and explain why regulation is necessary. I have categorised all the regulations into to five main regulations in Australia media. I will briefly elaborated on the five forms which I have defined as ownership, content, copyright, accuracy and truthfulness, and overall standards for the industry. I will also answer the question of, was government policy a factor in the commercial downtown of the television industry and whether they contributed to it?

There has been growing concern, about the effects and freedom that the media has in society. Therefore media has to have certain codes of regulation by which it needs to inform, stimulate and influence the public community as a whole. “Accuracy and truthfulness”(Study Guide p3) are very important aspects of the media that need to be regulated by our democratic government. Australia has no firm regulation that affect what journalist can and can’t rep...