THE HON MARK DREYFUS QC MP
ACTING SHADOW MINISTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS
SHADOW ATTORNEY-GENERAL
SHADOW MINISTER FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
MEMBER FOR ISAACS
ONE YEAR ON, ACMA STILL WAITING
Today is the one year anniversary of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) having no permanent Chair.
This critical position for the media industry has fallen into the vortex of the Fifield Triangle.
The Minister for Communications, Senator Mitch Fifield, continues to prove the title given to him last year as the most ineffective politician in the land.
In addition to the fact that there has not been a permanent head of the ACMA since last February there have also been two positions vacant on the ABC board for 20 months.
This uncertainty, coupled with the lack of progress on the Spectrum Review, which began in May 2014, and the ACMA Review, which was announced in June 2015 and has still not produced a final report, are hampering the sector.
What has the Minister been doing? Its not like hes busy focusing on the rollout of Malcolm Turnbull's copper NBN. In an insult to Australians suffering slow, unreliable broadband thanks to this Governments copper obsession we now know that the Minister thinks all these problems are somebody else's fault.
The media sector deserves better than a Minister who is missing in action.
MONDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2017
