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posted on 2008-01-01, 00:00 authored by Stephen Quinn, J Tidey
Australia and New Zealand are home to some of the hungriest media consumers in the world. On a per capita basis newspaper and magazine readership in Australia is one of the highest in the world. Australian homes have an average of two television sets and five radios.
Internet penetration is high, with almost universal adoption in offices and almost 11 million people using the Internet from home, as of June 2007, in a population of 21 million. The Australian information and communications technology market was worth about US$38 billion in 2007, the third largest in the Asia Pacific region after Japan and China. New Zealand's information technology (IT) goods and services sector was estimated at almost US$9 billion. New Zealanders are also major media consumers. This chapter looks first at Australian media and journalism, and then New Zealand before looking briefly at the Pacific.

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Title of book

Global journalism : topical issues and media systems

Chapter number

18

Pagination

400 - 408

Publisher

Pearson, Allyn and Bacon

Place of publication

Boston, United States

ISBN-13

9780205608119

ISBN-10

0205608116

Edition

5th

Language

eng

Notes

Published September 12, 2008. Copyright statement shows 2009.

Publication classification

B1 Book chapter; B Book chapter

Copyright notice

2009, Pearson, Allyn and Bacon

Extent

20

Editor/Contributor(s)

A de Beer, J Merrill

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