This article discusses the Australian government's late 2006 ‘Digital Action Plan’, which details policy changes for the transition to digital television. It suggests that the plan does open up greater possibilities for new services, and so encourages consumers to purchase digital receivers; however, it also suggests that Australia's approach is characterised by a desire to follow international trends rather than any inventive use of the technology, or policy leadership.
Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA)2006, Ready, Get Set, Go Digital: A Digital Action Plan for Australia, DCITA, Canberra.
SmithWarwick (Minister for Family Services) 1998, ‘Second Reading Speech on the Television Broadcasting Services (Digital Conversion) Bill 1998’, House of Representatives, Debates, 8 April, pp. 2830–32.
