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Trevor Barr

Trevor Barr is Professor of Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology, and Program Manager, Smart Internet Technology CRC.  His four major books have each been standard references in university media and telecommunications courses for many years and influential in policy formulation. He has been employed as a senior adviser or consultant by a number of government and industry bodies, including the Commission for the Future, Telstra, and Ericsson Australia. He was the inaugural Director of the Australian Electronics Development Centre, an initiative of the Commonwealth and Victorian governments to develop small and medium sized companies in information based industries. 

Trevor Barr has been a regular national media commentator for a long period, notably on ABC Radio, with AM and PM, Background Briefing, and regularly on Terry Lane, but also on Australia's leading news and current affairs television programs, including Four Corners, and the 7.30 Report. In May 2001 Trevor was invited to deliver one of the prestigious Alfred Deakin Lecture Series as part of The Federation Festival in Melbourne where 53 leaders in their field were invited to discuss critical issues regarding Australia's future. Trevor is also currently Co-Chair of the Telstra Consumer Consultative Council (TCCC), a national consumer advisory body to Telstra. 

The Sydney Morning Herald has chosen him as one of the 20 influential thinkers about major future issues facing Australia.

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