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Australia

Past Conferences

• 1999 Communications Research Forum

• 1998 Communications Research Forum and Bulletin

• Communications Research Forum 1997

• ARATA 1999 Conference

• Third Australian Conference on Technology for People with Disabilities, Canberra, 25-28 November, 1997 organised by ARATA (Australian Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Association)

Consumer organisations

• Consumers' Telecommunications Network
  The Consumers' Telecommunications Network (CTN) is a national coalition of consumer and community organisations concerned with Australian telecommunications issues. CTN is a non-government organisation which advocates on behalf of consumers and represents the community interest in the national telecommunications policy arena.

• Blind Citizens Australia
  Blind Citizens Australia is a national advocacy organisation for blind and vision impaired people. NFBCA led the research on consumer information access resulting in the report 'Everybody's Business' by Gunela Astbrink.

Legislation and regulation

• Australian Communications Authority
  Australia's governmental regulatory body on telecommunications.

• Australian Communications Industry Forum
  Australian telecommunications industry self-regulatory body.

• Disability Discrimination Act 1992

• Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (Disability Discrimination)
  Accessible web design advisory notes have been developed.

• Standards Australia
  Australia's Standards body. One of the committees is IT/20 on text communications equipment for use by people with disabilities.

• Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman

• Telecommunications legislation
  Information provided by the Department of Communications and the Arts

Research organisations

• Communications Research Unit
  An economic research branch within the Telecommunications Industry Division of the Department of Communications and the Arts.

• Centre for Telecommunications Information Networking (CTIN)

• CIRCIT (Centre for International Research on Communication and Information Technologies)

• Telecommunications Needs Research Group

Telecommunications carriers

• AAPT

• Optus

• Telstra

  • Telstra's Consumer Consultative Council

• Vodafone

Technical aids and equipment

• Independent Living Centre of South Australia

• Independent Living Centre of Western Australia

• Technical Aid to the Disabled Victoria

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