Network Insight Institute

Mark Armstrong has written and edited several media and communications books, including Broadcasting Law and Policy in Australia, Telecommunications Law: Australian Perspectives and Media Law in Australia. He was editor and principal author of Communications Law and Policy in Australia for 10 years. He has chaired or been a member of various editorial boards and boards of communications organisations. He was previously Professor of Communications Law at RMIT, Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and in his 10 years at the University of NSW law school the founder of communications courses and research. He was also Infocoms Adviser at Allens Arthur Robinson, Chair of the ABC Board, Chairman of the Broadcasting Council, and a full-time member of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal.

Cristina Abad, Manager

Cristina Abad was previously a Unit Manager in the transmission area at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). She has also worked in the Transcultural Mental Health Centre at Cumberland Hospital, and at Sureslim Australia.

Joanne Ryan, Researcher

Joanne Ryan has extensive experience in the media industry in Australia working for several years with News Limited and News Corporation in a research/policy analyst capacity on domestic and international communications issues. She has a BA (Communications) and is currently undertaking her Master of International Studies, exploring amongst other things, the growing impact of international commitments made during bi-lateral and multilateral trade agreements on Australian regulation.

Peter Darling, Senior Researcher

Peter has had wide experience in telecommunications network planning, and in the area of technical regulation, working with the Australian telecommunications regulators, ACA, ACCC, AUSTEL, the Spectrum Management Agency and the Australian Department of Communications and the Arts.

Until May 2000 Peter led Telstra's work on technical regulation. His career has covered standards at the national and international level, including the ITU, especially CCITT.

Ian McGarrity, Research Fellow

Ian McGarrity is Chairman of Digital Broadcasting Australia and the AEEMA Connected Home Forum. In a distinguished broadcasting career which began in 1969, he has been: a director and presenter of radio and TV programs; project director of the Commonwealth Games host broadcaster operation in Brisbane; SBS Head of TV; and head of development at the ABC.

Shilo McClean, Editor

Shilo McClean is a graduate of the Australian Film Television & Radio School and holds her Doctoral degree in Digital Effects in Filmmaking at the University of Technology, Sydney. In 1996 she was awarded the Kenneth Myer Fellowship to undertake research in the use of computer generated images in filmmaking and is the author of the books: So What's This All About Then: A Non-User's Guide to Digital Effects In Film. (1998), The Digital What? A Filmmaker's Non-Technical Guide to Digital Effects (USA 2000) and Digital Storytelling: the narrative power of visual effects in film (The MIT Press, 2006).

Bruce Moir, Troubleshooter

Bruce has worked in the Australian film and television industry for over 35 years, with extensive experience in documentary and drama program production. He was chief Executive of Film Australia between 1989 and 1997.

He has served on the Boards of the South Australian Film Corporation, Film Australia, Australia Multimedia Enterprise, and as an industry representative on the Screen Producers of Australia Association Council and as an AFC Commissioner, 1999-2005.

In recent years Bruce has been working as a freelance consultant on new and traditional media projects; and acting as a supervising producer [mentor] working remotely online with young filmmakers in a number of Asian countries.