Abstract
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By the time this issue of MIA lands on your desk, the regulatory landscape for the
media in Australia will (possibly) be about to change. In late February, the Review of
the National Classification System will have emerged, just ahead of the final version of
the Convergence Review in late March, which (apparently) will also take on board the
findings of the Independent Media Review with its remit to consider current journalistic
codes of practice in Australia to be released in late February. There has been a whole lot
of reviewing going on. And not before time, given the rapidity with which new media
forms and platforms have evolved and the ways in which these make a nonsense of the
current regulatory frameworks that have failed to keep pace.