For 25 years, Australia’s international TV voice has been a political plaything and a broadcasting afterthought, constantly facing chops and changes. Australian governments have treated our international TV service more as a political game than …
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Launching Australia’s international radio service in December 1939, Prime Minister Robert Menzies declared: ‘The time has come to speak for ourselves.’ World War II woke Australia to the need for its own, distinctive international voice. …
The old joke that it’s easy to have an open mind if you’ve got an empty mind has a Canberra version. The rejigged jibe judges that it’s simpler to run an inquiry if the policy …
The technical bastardry of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in degrading its shortwave broadcasts to the South Pacific has been starkly revealed. The bloody-mindedness helps explain the dumb decision to turn off Australia’s shortwave service that …
Long before the ABC abandoned shortwave broadcasting to PNG and the Pacific, its programming for indigenous audiences (as distinct from Australian expatriates) had become risible. For those concerned with Australia’s status as the region’s …