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An essay on interactive media art in Australia is presented. Topics include the author's description of a winter night in Port Adelaide, the emergence of locative works as a form of interactive digital media art, and the origin of interactive digital art with 1960s art works such as "Nine Evenings: Theater and Engineering" in 1966.

Explains that media literacy in Australia is the ability to "read" and understand visual, aural, and digital messages. Efforts to improve media literacy in elementary and secondary education; Four inter-related dimensions of media literacy; Cognitive, emotional, aesthetic, and moral; Each person’s level of media literacy depends on many factors.

Evaluates various cordless phones in Australia made by brands such as Audioline, Panasonic and Uniden. How digital phones offer more security; Consideration of the indoor range of analogue phones; Suggestion that the Uniden analogue phones offer good speech performance and are comfortable to use; Advice for buying a cordless phone; How all cordless phones should have ten or more channels; Use of Autoscan, a service which picks the best channel for receiving calls.

Evaluates digital mobile telephones. Test of phones for sound quality, sensitivity, and battery power; Radiation values and safety standards of phones in Australia; Disposal of phones and batteries, which may be toxic in landfills. INSETS: BEST PERFORMERS;Profiles;Features they all have;WHERE ARE THEY MADE?

The article offers a guideline to users of broadband Internet connections in Australia. It is explained that the user's location will be a major factor in the available types of broadband connections. The six types of broadband Internet connections are the Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), cable, wireless, ADSL 2 and 2+, naked DSL and satellite connections.

The author ponders the issue concerning the elimination of Religion Report at Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) Radio National in Australia. He mentions the statement of Stephen Crittenden regarding the removal of the ABC's flagship program and considered it as the death of the religion at the country's radio company. He also mentions the issue on the selection of digital broadcasting over conventional one.

The article features the digital radio in Australia. It says that the digital radio has a high-quality sound, station searching by name rather than frequency and its ability to pause and play back. It also says that the radio has a screen in which text and pictures of an electronic program guide on songs, weather guides or traffic updates will appear.

The article describes the six types of broadband Internet connections, which are the Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), cable, wireless, ADSL 2, naked DSL and satellite connections. ADSL employs the user's telephone line but can offer much faster speeds than a dial-up connection. The cable connection employs the cable wires for cable television and is at least as fast as ASDL2+.

The article reports on a software problem that causes LG digital televisions (TV) to freeze in Australia. According to LG, 17 different models with an integrated digital tuner are affected. The serial numbers and models of the infected televisions are listed. The things to do when an LG TV freezes are provided.

Comments on the Australian government's Datacasting Bill 2000 which contains restrictions on content, audio and video streaming. Aim of the bill; Opportunity presented by conversion to digital technology; Threat posed by the digital spectrum to free-to-air commercial broadcasters; Internet access statistics of Australians.