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Editorial
EDITORIAL
Don Lamberton
Page: 4
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Original Articles

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COMMUNICATION FUTURES IN AUSTRALIA
John V. Langdale
Pages: 5-9
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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BRINGING MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES TO AUSTRALIA'S COMMUNICATION FUTURES: BEYOND THE SUPERHIGHWAY?
June Lennie, Greg Hearn, Tony Stevenson, Sohail Inayatullah & Tom Mandeville
Pages: 10-30
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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A TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE IS NOT AN INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
Don Lamberton
Pages: 31-38
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ON AUSTRALIA'S COMMUNICATIONS FUTURE
John V. Langdale
Pages: 39-50
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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AUSTRALIAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT: ISSUES FOR THE FUTURE
R.A. Joseph
Pages: 51-65
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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TELEVISION FUTURES IN AUSTRALIA
Tom O'Regan
Pages: 66-79
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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RE-ENGINEERING TELECOMMUNICATIONS FOR THE WAY PEOPLE WANT TO LIVE: SOCIAL RESEARCH IN THE DESIGN OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Patricia Gillard, Karen Wale & Amanda Bow
Pages: 80-89
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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REVIEW ARTICLE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT: WHY REFORM IS NEEDED
John Goldberg
Pages: 90-99
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Book Reviews

Book Review
What Machines Can't Do: Politics and Technology in the Industrial Enterprise by Robert J Thomas (University of California Press, Los Angeles and London, 1994), pp xviii + 314. $US 16.00. ISBN 0520 081315
Fred Jevons
Pages: 100-102
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Information Services for Innovative Organizations by Carmel Maguire, Edward J. Kazlauskas and Anthony D. Weir (Academic Press Professional, San Diego, 1994) pp.xiv + 319, US$55.00, ISBN 0-12-465030-9
Stuart Macdonald
Pages: 103-104
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
CitationforInformation Services for Innovative Organizations by Carmel Maguire, Edward J. Kazlauskas and Anthony D. Weir (Academic Press Professional, San Diego, 1994) pp.xiv + 319, US$55.00, ISBN 0-12-465030-9 | PDF (131.4 KB)
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Colonial Technology — Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australia by Jan Todd (Cambridge University Press, Oakleigh, Victoria, 1995), pp. xii + 300, A$49.95, ISBN 0-521-46138-3 (hb)
A.L. Lougheed
Pages: 104-106
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Book Review
After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist by Clifford Geertz (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1995), pp.198, A$44.50, ISBN 0-674-008715
D.McL. Lamberton
Pages: 106-108
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Book Review
Cultural Economics and Cultural Policies edited by Alan Peacock and Ilde Rizzo, (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London, 1994). pp. vii + 184, US$87.00, ISBN 07923-2868-X
Sonia S. Gold
Pages: 108-109
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Book Review
Waves of Change: Business Evolution through Information Technology by James L. McKenney with Duncan C. Copeland, Richard O. Mason (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 1995), pp. xiv + 230, A$54.95, ISBN 0-87584-564-9
Alwin Mahler
Pages: 110-112
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
First Page PreviewforWaves of Change: Business Evolution through Information Technology by James L. McKenney with Duncan C. Copeland, Richard O. Mason (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 1995), pp. xiv + 230, A$54.95, ISBN 0-87584-564-9 | PDF (208.3 KB)
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Book Review
Incentive Regulation and the Regulation of Incentives by Glenn Blackmon (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht and Boston, 1994), pp. x + 133, US$69.95. ISBN 0 7923 9470 4
Sanford V. Berg
Pages: 113-115
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Book Review
Public Access to the Internet edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller (The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995), pp. viii + 390, US$20.00, ISBN 0-262-61118-X
Harry Bruce
Pages: 116-118
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
First Page PreviewforPublic Access to the Internet edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller (The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995), pp. viii + 390, US$20.00, ISBN 0-262-61118-X | References | PDF (190.8 KB)
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Book Review
Telecommunications in the Pacific Basin: An Evolutionary Approach edited by Eli Noam, Seisuke Komatsuzaki, Douglas A. Conn, (Oxford University Press, New York, 1994), pp. xvii + 514, A$110, ISBN 0-19-508421-7
Terry Cutler
Pages: 118-120
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Book Review
New Worlds in Information and Documentation edited by J.R. Alvaraez-Ossorio and B.G. Goedegebuure (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1994), pp. x + 495, ISBN 0 444 81891 X
Karen Sampford
Pages: 120-123
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Book Review
Work for All or Mass Unemployment: Computerised Technical Change into the 21 Century by Chris Freeman and Luc Soete (Pinter Publishers, London New York, 1994), pp ix + 193, £ 35.99 (hb), £ 10.99 (pb), ISBN I 85567256 1
Peter Hall
Pages: 123-126
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
First Page PreviewforWork for All or Mass Unemployment: Computerised Technical Change into the 21 Century by Chris Freeman and Luc Soete (Pinter Publishers, London New York, 1994), pp ix + 193, £ 35.99 (hb), £ 10.99 (pb), ISBN I 85567256 1 | PDF (252.5 KB)
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Book Review
Science Policy: New Mechanisms for Scientific Collaboration between East and West edited by Valentin A. Koptyug and Jean Klerkx (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1995), pp. xxxiii+256, US$ 145.00, ISBN 0-7923-3227-X
Dora Marinova
Pages: 126-128
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Book Review
The Knowledge Industries: Levers of Economic and Social Development in the 1990s edited by Blaise Cronin and Neva Tudor-Silovic, (Aslib, The Association for Information Management, London, 1990), pp. x +332, ISBN 0 85142 266 7
Luís Monteiro
Pages: 129-131
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Book Review
On-the-job learning in the software industry: corporate culture and the acquisition of knowledge by Marc Sacks. (Quorum Books, Westport, Connecticut, 1994) pp.216. US$55.00, ISBN 0-89930-865-1
Steve New
Pages: 131-132
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Book Review
Coordination and Information: Historical Perspectives on the Organization of Enterprise edited by Naomi R.Lamoreaux and Daniel M.G.Raff (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1995), pp.viii + 337, £stg. 17.95, ISBN: 0-226-46820-8 (cloth), 0-226-46821-6 (pb)
D.McL. Lamberton
Pages: 132-133
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Book Review
Multinationals and governments: Issues and implications for Australia by Bureau of Industry Economics, Research Report 49 (Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra 1993), pp. xv + 197, A$16.95, ISBN not available
Ernst-Olav Ruhle
Pages: 133-136
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Book Review
Responding to Global Warming by Peter Read (Zed Books Ltd, London, 1994) pp. xiv +304, ISBN 1-85649-161-7
Carrie Sonneborn
Pages: 136-138
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Book Review
The Turn of the Tide: Computerization in Dutch Society 1900–1965 by Jan van den Ende (Delft University Press, Delft, 1994), pp 267, NGL 63.60, ISBN 90-407-1005-8
Aksel Hagen Tjora
Pages: 138-140
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Shorter Notices

Climate Change Science: Current Understandings and Uncertainties by Steering Committee of the Climate Change Study (Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, 1995) pp.100, ISBN 0-646-22704-1
Carrie Sonneborn
Page: 141
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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The Sale of Aussat, Report 333 by The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia Joint Committee of Public Accounts (Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1994), pp. xii + 35, A$6.95, ISBN 0 644 35468 2
Page: 141
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists, Second Edition, Volume 1 and Volume 2, compiled by John Daintith, Sarah Mitchell, Elizabeth Tootill and Derek Gjertsen, (Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia, 1994), pp. 1075, £ 120.00, ISBN 0 7503 0287 9 (Two-Volume Set)
Pages: 141-142
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
CitationforBiographical Encyclopedia of Scientists, Second Edition, Volume 1 and Volume 2, compiled by John Daintith, Sarah Mitchell, Elizabeth Tootill and Derek Gjertsen, (Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia, 1994), pp. 1075, £ 120.00, ISBN 0 7503 0287 9 (Two-Volume Set) | PDF (108.8 KB)
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World Telecommunications Development Report 1994 by the International Telecommunication Union (lT V, Geneva, 1994), pp xiv + 174, 160 Swiss Francs, ISBN 92-61-049915
Page: 142
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Communications Outlook 1995 by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy), (OECD, Paris, 1995), pp. 221, US $83.00, ISBN 92-64-14330-0
Page: 142
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
CitationforCommunications Outlook 1995 by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy), (OECD, Paris, 1995), pp. 221, US $83.00, ISBN 92-64-14330-0 | PDF (64.5 KB)
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Connecting You Now…: Telecommunications Towards the Year 2000 by the Senate Economics References Committee (Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia), (Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra. 1995), pp. xxi + 164, A $19.95, ISBN 0-6422449-X
Page: 143
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
CitationforConnecting You Now…: Telecommunications Towards the Year 2000 by the Senate Economics References Committee (Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia), (Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra. 1995), pp. xxi + 164, A $19.95, ISBN 0-6422449-X | PDF (43.6 KB)
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Science System: International Benchmarking by the Bureau of Industry Economics, Report 96/2 (Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1996), pp. xxiv + 223, ISBN 0-644-46514-X
Page: 143
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Invisible Eyes: Report on Video Surveillance in the Workplace by the Privacy Committee of New South Wales (Privacy Committee of New South Wales, Sydney, 1995), pp. 132, ISBN 0-7310-64410
Page: 143
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Miscellany

NEWS
Page: 144
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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