The Federal election was called on 28 March 2025. As this website is hosted by the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts, the site will only be updated with material in line with the Caretaker Conventions. Please note that the content of this site relates to the Australian Government’s existing policy.

The Bureau of Communications, Arts and Regional Research (BCARR) undertakes research and provides economic and data analysis on communications, arts, cities and regions to support evidence-based policy development and advice.

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Communications

See our research and analysis of the communications and media sectors.

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Arts

View our research and analysis of the arts sector and cultural and creative parts of the economy.

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Regions and Cities

The economic and social characteristics of Australia’s regions and cities vary significantly. Our spatial research and analysis improves our understanding of these differences and enables location appropriate development.

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Data Dashboards

Our data dashboards provide an interactive way of monitoring, measuring, analysing, and generating insights from different datasets.

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Publications

Visual summary: Cultural and Creative Activity in Australia, 2009–10 to 2018–19

This document provides updated estimates of cultural and creative activity for the period 2009–10 to 2018–19. The updates are presented as a visual summary.

Working paper—Economic impact of ubiquitous high speed broadband: agriculture sector

This paper estimates the benefits of the agriculture sector's access to ubiquitous, high-speed broadband.

International comparison of fixed broadband performance—data consumption

This fact sheet describes trends and data relevant to the volume of data on fixed broadband connections in Australia, including in comparison to international peers.

Monitoring the impact of Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) services on the Australian content market—Overview paper

This document summarises some of the developments in the content market and outlines the structure of the interactive Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) Chart Pack published by the Bureau of Communications, Arts and Regional Research.

Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) February 2021 statistical snapshot

This document outlines some high level findings from the interactive Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) Chart Pack published by the Bureau of Communications, Arts and Regional Research.

Measuring Australia's fixed broadband performance—compendium

This document consolidates the factsheets on Australia’s fixed broadband performance that have been released in 2020 by the Bureau of Communications and Arts Research.

International comparison of fixed broadband performance—Migration to higher speed plans

This fact sheet describes trends and data relevant to the migration to higher speed fixed broadband services in Australia, including how Australia fares compared to international peers.

Measuring Australia’s fixed broadband performance

This fact sheet describes shortcomings with existing measures of broadband performance and outlines an approach to robustly assess Australia’s fixed broadband performance.

International comparison of fixed broadband performance—coverage and minimum speeds

This fact sheet describes Australia’s performance on fixed broadband coverage by services offering speeds of 25 Mbps as a minimum, in comparison to international peers.

Cultural and creative activity in Australia, 2008–09 to 2017–18—explanatory notes

The Bureau of Communications, Arts and Regional Research (BCARR) within the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications has estimated the economic contribution of cultural and creative activity in Australia over a 10 year period, from 2008–09 to 2017–18.