March of the Moguls: what future for the Convergence Review?

The slow-motion election campaign now foisted on the public will sweep all the current hot buttons for screen policy into its capacious maw. We start our months of worrying by setting Dr O'D loose on
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The slow-motion election campaign now foisted on the public will sweep all the current hot buttons for screen policy into its capacious maw. We start our months of worrying by setting Dr O’D loose on the Convergence Review, via the NBN.

Here is a promise you won’t see on an Australian advertising sign any time soon.

Your correspondent spied it on a real estate development site across the road from the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. It seems that, for at least one Malaysian developer, the promise of a one-gigabyte Internet connection for city residential apartments, is a very attractive promise to make.

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Dr Vincent O'Donnell
About the Author
Once a film editor, Dr Vincent O’Donnell is a historian of Australian film agencies. He is an honorary fellow in RMIT University’s School of Media and Communication, a past president of the Producers and Directors Guild of Victoria and former executive producer at Film Victoria.