Conceptualising the Australian telecommunications industry self-regulation scheme in the context of Australian judicial system and administrative justice

The public ombudsman plays an irreplaceable role as an important redress mechanism for individual grievances and as a ?watch dog? to administrative justice. By analysing the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) as a case study, this article seeks to examine the nature of the private sector ombudsmen and its changing position in relation to administrative justice. This article argues that the current TIO scheme presents an inappropriate and unreliable situation where the private sector...

Things to learn and things to abandon

This article compares the telecommunications consumer dispute resolution scheme in Australia, Japan and Korea based on the telecommunications consumer policy principles developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 2011 and the guidelines and recommendations developed by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in 2013. This article concludes that the Australian consumer dispute resolution scheme (the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman scheme)...