[csaa-forum] Lecture in Brisbane - Mr Graeme Samuel, ACCC

Fri May 6 11:09:30 CST 2005

Hi all, sorry for the cross-posting.

THE CENTRE FOR CRITICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES

and

MEDIA INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA INCORPORATING CULTURE AND POLICY

present

Mr Graeme Samuel, AO

Chairman

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Media Convergence and the Changing Face of Media Regulation

Date:                Thursday 19 May 2005

Place:               Abel Smith Lecture Theatre - (Bldg 23), St
<http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?menu=1&x=j.06&y=6.1883116883117&z=1&xc
%5b%5d=&yc%5b%5d=&id=&facilityType=&backURL=&mx=252&my=122&mapcoord=?204,149
>  Lucia Campus, The University of Queensland [
<http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?menu=1&x=J.83&y=6.1&z=1&xc%5b%5d=J.83&
yc%5b%5d=6.1&id=13&facilityType=&backURL=> See map], 

Time:                5.30pm - 6.30pm

Members of the university community and the general public are invited to
attend this free lecture with refreshments to follow.

Please scroll down for further information or visit the website at
http://www.cccs.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=28481
<http://www.cccs.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=28481&pid=16377> &pid=16377

Press Release: 

The head of the Australia's consumer watchdog Graeme Samuel will speak at UQ
on May 19 about the future for media regulation in Australia.

The chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said much
of the debate about the future of Australian media outlets had missed the
point.

"The job of regulation now is not so much determining how many TV stations
there are or who can own what, but ensuring that people aren't locking up
the content rights," Mr Samuel said.

"People are accessing a lot of content by the internet now and with the roll
out of faster internet speeds, people will soon be bypassing and many young
people already are, the traditional media and getting the content they want
themselves via the internet."

Mr Samuel said the privatisation of Telstra was not a matter for the ACCC
but it was crucial that whoever owned Telstra, that competitors continued to
be allowed to access its network to be able to provide competition in all
areas of telecommunications.

"Telstra is such a dominant carrier and has control over most of the
infrastructure and it is our job to ensure that rival players can get their
equipment installed or get access to Telstra's network so they can compete
with Telstra.

"This will become even more important as people shift away from TV and radio
and move more into the internet to get their content."
He said media convergence was not good or bad, but it would give us more
control over how we viewed content and more power to groups who controlled
the content.

Mr Samuel is giving the inaugural Henry Mayer lecture in the Abel Smith
Theatre (building 23), UQ St Lucia, from 5.30pm to 6.30pm.

Media: contact Ms Lin Enright (phone: 02 6243 1108, email:
lin.enright at accc.gov.au) or Miguel Holland at UQ Communications on (phone:
07 3365 2619, email: m.holland at uq.edu.au) For further information about the
event, please contact: Ms Rebecca Ralph, Centre for Critical and Cultural
Studies Ph. (07) 3346 9764   Fax (07) 3365 7184   Email:
admin.cccs at uq.edu.au

Biography:  

Mr Samuel's professional career commenced as a Partner of the law firm
Phillips Fox & Masel from 1972 to 1980. He then became Executive Director of
Hill Samuel Australia Limited and subsequently Macquarie Bank Limited from
1981 to 1986 and co-founder of Grant Samuel & Associates in 1988.

Mr Samuel has held the following public offices (many of which he
relinquished to assume his position with the ACCC):

*	President of the National Competition Council (1997-2003) 
*	Commissioner of the Australian Football League (1984-2003) 
*	Chairman of Opera Australia (1995-2000) 
*	President of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
(1995-97) 
*	Chairman of the Melbourne & Olympic Parks Trust (1995-2003) 
*	Member of the Board of the Docklands Authority (1997-2003) 
*	Director of Thakral Holdings Limited (1993-2003) 
*	Chairman of Playbox Theatre Company (1983-1995) 
*	Trustee of the Melbourne Cricket Ground Trust (1992-1998) 
*	Chairman of the Inner & Eastern Health Care Network (1995-2000)

Mr Samuel holds the following degrees and awards:

*	Bachelor of Laws (Melbourne University) 
*	Master of Laws (Monash University) 
*	Life Member of the Australian Football League (1995) 
*	Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia (1998) 
*	Australian Sports Medal, for services to sport (2000) 
*	Honorary Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
(2000) 
*	Centenary Medal in recognition of his service as President of the
National Competition Council (2003) 
*	Honorary Life Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development of
Australia (CEDA) (2003)

The Henry Mayer Lecture

This lecture will be the inaugural Henry Mayer Lecture, commemorating
Professor Henry Mayer, who in 1974 founded the journal Media
<http://emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/index.html>  International Australia, now one of
Australia's premier academic journals dealing with the media industries.

MIA was published by the Australian Film, Television and Radio School until
1997, when it moved to the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy at Griffith
University. At that time, it was merged with the Centre's journal, Culture
and Policy. From 2004, it became a publication of the School of EMSAH
<http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/>  and the Centre for Critical and Cultural
Studies <http://cccs.uq.edu.au/> , at The University of Queensland. 

Parking vouchers for the UQ multi-level parking building [see
<http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?menu=1&x=F.17&y=4.4&z=1&xc%5b%5d=F.17&
yc%5b%5d=4.4&id=16&facilityType=&backURL=>  map] at the St Lucia Campus are
available to assist members of the community attend this free public
lecture. The vouchers, which waive the parking fees for the multi-story
parking building, are only available for collection from Centre staff at the
event. 

For further information, please contact:

Ms Rebecca Ralph, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies

Ph. (07) 3346 9764   Fax (07) 3365 7184   Email: admin.cccs at uq.edu.au

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John Gunders, BA(Hons), MA, Grad Cert Education

Project Officer, ARC Cultural Research Network

Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies

The University of Queensland

(07) 3346 9765

0402 650 628

j.gunders at uq.edu.au

www.uq.edu.au/crn/

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