Reading RoomA new telecommunications code of conduct (Code) for the deployment of mobile phone infrastructure has been submitted by the Communications Alliance to the Australian Communications and Media Authority. If it is ratified by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), it will take effect on 1 July 2012. This is the first revision of the Code in eight years.
On Friday, 20 January 2012, the federal government released a report prepared by Maddocks for the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency.
The report – "The Role of Regulation in Facilitating or Constraining Adaptation to Climate Change for Australian Infrastructure" – examines the regulatory frameworks affecting some of Australia's most important …
In the shadows of the forthcoming election, Maddocks’ telecommunications lawyers Brendan Coady, Sonia Sharma and Fiona Maclachlan provide a status update on the National Broadband Network (NBN). The NBN shapes as an election issue as it is seen as a key reform and major infrastructure project by the Government, while the opposition has pledged to "trash" the Government’s …