1) Following last years media law changes, the ACMA has introduced a new register for rural and regional radio stations. Stations have to regularly report their levels of ‘local presence’ – staffing, facilities etc – so that the regulator can, if a ‘trigger event’ occurs, compel the station to maintain the current level. In this way, the regulations to protect local radio punish local radio. And seriously, what is a ‘trigger event’? Read the rest of this entry »

Daniel Mitchell posts at the Cato blog the State Department’s guide to what other countries should do to properly combat money-laundering: Read the rest of this entry »

There’s a big gap between the silent era and today. It isn’t silence that makes silent films hard to watch, it is the myriad of changes between the first few decades of the twentieth century and today about what we find entertaining. Read the rest of this entry »