A fundamental power shift is underway in contemporary Australia — the deconstruction of the role of the state in ownership, policy and strategic thinking for the future. In telecommunications policy, we have replaced strategic thinking for the nation with ad hoc strategic planning by an array of intensely competitive companies. This article argues that we need to widen the framework of a plethora of public-interest groups pushing narrow sectional interest to much wider inputs in the overall policy process. We need to foster imaginative attempts at constructing national plans — of many different kinds — for Australia's communications future.
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Australian Post Office, 1960, Community Telephone Plan for Australia, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra.
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Commonwealth of Australia, 1959, Progress — Policy — Plans, White Paper, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra.
