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House Standing Committee on Communications, Information Technology and the Arts

Committee activities (inquiries and reports)

Inquiry into the uptake of digital television in Australia

The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications, Information Technology and the Arts is conducting an inquiry into the uptake of digital television in Australia.

The Committee agreed on 16 March 2005 to conduct an inquiry referred by Senator the Hon Helen Coonan, the Australian Government Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.

The inquiry aims to report on options for encouraging consumer interest in digital television. The inquiry will also report on the rollout process and technological issues relevant to the uptake of digital television.

Public hearings are currently being conducted in Canberra and other centres around Australia. Those wishing to make late submissions should contact the Committee Secretariat. Please refer to our brochure called preparing a submission for more information.

In order to facilitate electronic publishing of submissions, the Committee would prefer them to be emailed to cita.reps@aph.gov.au or sent on disk or CD-ROM to the Committee Secretariat in Microsoft Word® or Portable Document Format (PDF).

Terms of reference

Submissions

Public hearings

Media releases

Report

The Committee has also produced an background paper that is available below in Portable Document Format (PDF).

Background paper (PDF 109KB)

To view or print the background paper in PDF, you will need Adobe Acrobat® PDF Reader, which can be downloaded free of charge from Adobe

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