Smart State All Over: Opportunities for Broadcasting and Content Creation Enterprises in Regional Queensland
(2002) Smart State All Over: Opportunities for Broadcasting and Content Creation Enterprises in Regional Queensland. Technical Report, Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre, Queensland University of Technology.
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Abstract
In Australia, broadcasting and communications have been historically a federal responsibility, with the states playing a negligible role in broadcasting, and a minor role in communications policy. But it is apparent, from international developments in the creative industries, that government at other than national levels has in recent years provided significant impetus to this sector. An historic opportunity exists for the Queensland State Government to apply ‘Smart State’ policy orientations and initiatives to jobs and growth, and to promote regional development through community engagement in creative industries, beginning with interventions in broadcasting and building strategic opportunities in content creation more broadly. The immediate context is the withdrawal of news services in North Queensland. This sudden withdrawal highlights the broader and longer-term erosion of ‘localism’ in Australian broadcasting. When this is added to the uncertainties attending federal government policies on digital broadcasting and broadband development, the nation - and particularly regional and rural populations – faces both short-term and longer-term crises in essential and emerging communications amenities.
| Item Type: | Departmental Technical Report |
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| Status: | Published |
| Keywords: | creative industries; Queensland; content industries; cultural industries; regional innovation; innovation policy |
| Subjects: | Subjects UNSPECIFIED |
| ID Code: | 4393 |
| Deposited By: | Foth, Marcus |
| Deposited On: | 05 July 2006 |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2002 (please consult author) |