THE ETHNIC BROADCASTER Journal of the National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters’ Council

Spring 2005 Inside: Funding Update

AERTP Lives

2005 NEMBC Conference

McDonald’s Radio

Likely to Incite Hatred

Giving New Horizons to our Mind

and much more Multiculturalism - A Core Australian Value

Ethnic broadcasters are gravely concerned about the questioning of The Ethnic Broadcaster multiculturalism in high places, questioning that goes so far as considering abandoning the policy. They are also concerned at the Spring 2005 selective, if not racist, redefinitions of Australian values, following the tragic and indefensible London terrorist attacks. Some politicians and commentators attacked multiculturalism as dividing the people and the nation, suggesting that it can – and Contents some accuse that it does - harbor hotheads or threats to Australia’s national security and cohesion. 3 Training News They have called for unprecedented measures – many of which have been adopted by 5 Targeted Funding the Government – far in excess of what may be required to meet legitimate concerns of terrorist attacks in Australia. These include detaining and tagging people on Review suspicion, policing what happens in schools, and what people wear. They extend to how people exercise their democratic rights of free speech, free association, and 6 Many Languages, socio-political and religious beliefs. Many Voices Australian citizenship will be harder and take longer to obtain and it can be revoked in 7 AERTP Lives certain circumstances. Add to this statements, by Treasurer Costello and Education Minister Nelson that those, “Who do not like Australia can pack up and go!” One can 8 McDonald’s Radio see accusations of terrorism pointing more threateningly to migrants and non- Australian born citizens and in the first place to Muslims. 10 Likely to Incite Hatred This is an unjustified and unacceptable situation. If unchallenged these measures, and the climate of uncertainty and fear they have generated, would sacrifice what all 12 Giving New Australians cherish most – their freedoms. They would also tend to divide Australians into two classes of residents and citizens, those born here and those born overseas, Horizons to our the latter with less rights. Mind No nation, can sustain unity and progress if its social and legal systems are made to 14 Griffith University discriminate between people on the basis of ethnic origin or religion. Respect for the law is a citizen’s responsibility, as it is the citizen’s right to democratically advocate Research Update change. 15 Station News The White Australia policy for instance, had been “a core Australian value” for the greater part of the last century. 17 Member News:

Allegations of breaches of Australian laws should be referred for judgment to Tony Manicaros Australian courts. Conviction should be based on the crime committed not the ethnic 18 NEMBC origins of the alleged perpetrator, and should be served out in Australia. Conference The Treasurer and the Minister for Education should be reminded that Australia Information belongs to all of us – the Indigenous people, the migrants and their descendants of the last 240 years. It is not owned by the government of the day, and that Registration government alone does not determine what “Australian values” are. Conference Partners Multiculturalism is not an abstract notion, or a foreign graft on “the Australian society” but an irreversible fact of life, for which Australia in the richer. 22 Youth Report The critics of cultural pluralism, that is of growing together, respecting and nourishing 26 New & Emerging diversity, would like us to return to a new form of White Australia or at least to place multiculturalism on constant control and surveillance. This would be a catastrophic Communities News course for the nation and its place in the world, especially in our own region. 28 Women’s Surveys Measures to combat terrorism, even the most sensible ones, would prove inadequate if they ignore many of the root causes. Most people and governments in the world, 29 Reporting Suicide and most people in Australia, believe that the invasion and occupation, for instance, & Mental Illness of Iraq is illegal and immoral, and a source of popular discontent and desperate acts of violence. It is wrong to embrace the view and adopt policies that see the real 30 NEMBC Targets issues before Australia and the world as being a war between civilizations and Cheats religions, and not that of poverty, disease, inequality and intolerance. It is also wrong to elevate a belief as the only truth that cannot co-exist with another, whether it 31 CBF Report applies to individuals, groups or nations.

In ethnic community broadcasting, we have built one of Australia’s finest multicultural Cover image: The youth ethnic institutions where diversity, tolerance and unity are in harmony. Multiculturalism is a broadcasters of the Multilingual core Australian value and all of us have the responsibility to promote and defend it. Broadcasting Council of the Northern Territory - George Zangalis, NEMBC President Harmony Day. Pg. 5 >>>training & funding news TRAINING UPDATE

After having declined to renew funding for In making the funding available to the CBF, the Australian Ethnic Radio Training Project the government said that it wanted the fund the federal government, as part of its 2004 to be coordinated on a national basis. The election policy, promised to provide CBF proposed, and the Training Advisory additional funds for training community Group agreed, that consultants should be broadcasters. These funds would be Aengaged PARTNERSHIP to report BETWEEN on a proposed NEMBC, 3ZZZ structure & THE PULSE available to all community broadcasters. for the fund.

While the NEMBC was disappointed that “...the new fund would need to cover the whole the AERTP funding would not be restored, range of community broadcasting, the amount of we appreciated the fact that ethnic money going to ethnic broadcasters would be broadcasters (along with Indigenous much less than under the old AERTP scheme”. broadcasters, regional broadcasters and print handicapped stations) were to receive In the course of discussions as to how the some priority in the new fund. fund should be organised, a number of different approaches emerged. The However it became apparent that because NEMBC favoured what we called a the new fund would need to cover the whole diversity model. Noting the great degree of range of community broadcasting, the diversity in community radio, and in amount of money going to ethnic particular the special and diverse needs of broadcasters would be much less than ethnic and Indigenous broadcasters, the under the old AERTP scheme. This was NEMBC put forward a model with the one of the reasons why the NEMBC was following key features: concerned that the scheme be as cost effective as possible. In particular we were > The bulk of the funds should go to the concerned with the amount of red tape stations, with the proviso that it could only involved in accredited training, and the be spent on accredited training. potential for administrative costs to eat up > That stations should have the right to use such a large proportion of the funds that as the trainer of their choice, so long as the little as half of the total funds might go to trainer was qualified. pay for trainers. > That stations should have the ability to use the curriculum of their choice, so long The government decided that the fund as that curriculum was accredited. should be administered by the Community > That the stations should have the right to Broadcasting Foundation (CBF). The CBF, determine what proportion of their funding in accordance with its normal practice, should be spent on broadcaster training, formed a Training Advisory Group (TAG) to and what should be spent on management help it administer the fund. The TAG training. includeded representatives of all the > That stations should have the right to use national representative bodies for the Registered Training Organisation community broadcasting. The NEMBC (RTO) of their choice, so long as that RTO nominated Darce Cassidy, who has maintained its registered status. extensive training experience with community broadcasting stations in South A different model, which the NEMBC Australia and Victoria, and with the SBS described as the Monopoly Model, had the and the ABC. following key features:

TheThe Ethnic Ethnic Broadcaster Broadcaster,, Spring Winter 20052004 - 3 “The report recommended that the maximum grant that a station could get for a broadcaster training course was $1500”.

> A very large proportion of the total funding The report recommended that the should go to staffing a “Lead RTO” maximum grant that a station could get for > Stations should only be able to use RTOs a broadcaster training course was $1500. that were part of the community If the course had ten students, and if the broadcasting sector. They would not be RTO charged $50 per student, then a third able to use TAFE colleges, many of which of funds given to the station would go to were RTOs, and many of which could administrative costs. If RTOs were to provide cheaper services. In particular this charge close to a third of the funds would have excluded Batchelor College, an allocated to stations to issue certificates, Indigenous training organistation which is on top of the third of the total amount both a TAFE and an RTO with a long already allocated to administration, then history of training in the community radio close to two thirds of the government sector. funds would be swallowed up in > Stations would only be able to use administration. trainers accredited by a limited number of RTOs In short the NEMBC felt that the Lead RTO > Stations would only be able to use model spent too much on administration, curriculum of a restricted number of RTOs and not enough on the actual delivery of training. It failed to empower broadcasters The consultants report came up with what it and stations, and left too much power in described as a “hybrid model” which had the hands of a central bureaucracy. some features of the diversity model and some features of the monopoly model. The NEMBC, together with Indigenous However in the view of the NEMBC, the representatives, argued against the Lead constants report leant toward the monopoly RTO model, and proposed that the fund be model. administered in a more cost effective way by a cheaper administrative structure. It proposed that the CBAA be the lead RTO, and that the sum of $376,500 be given to Following further discussions the Training the CBAA to staff the lead RTO. The report Advisory Group recommended to the CBF also proposed that $105,000 go to the CBF that the training scheme be co-ordinated for administration of the scheme. Other by a consortium of RTOs associated with administrative costs proposed by the report the community bradcasting sector, which were $35,000 for consultants, $10,000 for would be responsible to the CBF through advertising and promotion, and $215,000 an advisory committee comprised of for evaluation and discretionary. These representatives of the relevant sector amounts totalled $741,500 from a total fund organisations. of $2.2 million. This would mean a third of the total grant would go the lead RTO, the The final scheme have yet to be CBF and other administrative costs. announced, and the NEMBC remains concerned that the scheme may be over An additonal concern of the NEMBC is the centralised and over administered, with too fees that RTO might charge for issueing much money going to administration and certificates. Currently the CBAA charges too little going to stations to provide $50 per student for members, or $100 per training. student for non-members, to issue certificates.

44 - -The The Ethnic Ethnic Broadcaster Broadcaster, Winter, Spring 2004 2005 MANY LANGUAGES, ONE VOICE

The youth ethnic broadcasters of the Multilingual Broadcasting Council of NT are more than just a voice for their generation and nationality.

Youth broadcasters from various language programs showed their versatility by designing and creating their own T-shirt, demonstrating how the medium can be a unifying voice.

The T-shirt was launched by Manager, Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) Jim Lauoris earlier this year as part of Harmony Day celebrations.

Multilingual Broadcasting Council of NT (INC) thanks the OMA for the Harmony Day sponsorship grant.

Youth broadcasters have been on the air since 1998.

These volunteer broadcasters present exciting programs that incorporate segments such as sport and music from all over the world, youth issues and community announcements. There are young volunteers involved with these programs from ethnic community groups, including Filipino, Indian, Greek and Tamil.

These groups broadcast live every week from 104.1 Top FM studios at the Charles Darwin University Casuarina campus.

New applicants such as Spanish, Cypriot youth and newly emerging groups including African and Taiwanese youth groups are keen to be allocated broadcasting times.

Ethnic radio gives migrant youth groups a great opportunity to profile and identify themselves within their wider community. All the youth groups have been striving to promote themselves to increase the audience reach.

At present there are 20 different language groups being involved in ethnic broadcasting.

TheThe Ethnic Ethnic Broadcaster Broadcaster,, Spring Winter 20052004 - 5 targeted funding “...there are ethnic community programs across Australia that REVIEW provide vital news and information in some 100 languages”. Approximately half of the funding which ethnic broadcasters receive from the federal government comes under the heading of communities, and programs for young people, as targeted funding. Earlier this year the a special priority. government announced that there would be a Because of its flexibility ethnic community radio review of this funding, carried out by the has been far more effective in responding to these Department of Finance. While this type of priorities than the governments own service, the review is not unusual, it can be critical for SBS. The SBS is networked and centralised. ethnic broadcasters. The Department of Ethnic community radio is locally based and Finance could recommend that this funding be locally produced, able to respond to local stopped, or they could recommend that it be conditions. The six major capital city ethnic maintained at the present level or increased. community1 stations devote nearly twice as Clearly this is of vital concern to ethnic many hours to programs in these categories as broadcasters. their SBS equivalents.2 Ethnic community radio provides programs in the languages of 42 new and The principle role of the NEMBC is to represent emerging communities.3 our members interests and other relevant bodies. Recently the Secretariat has been Efficient. working with the NEMBC Executive and with Government support for ethnic community radio ethnic broadcasters to put the case for costs $39 per hour.4 Government support for SBS increased funding to the federal government. radio costs $1600 per hour.5

A summary of the submission we made to the Radio is a far more effective way of providing review follows. settlement information than printed material. Not only is it more timely, and cheaper to produce, but Ethnic community broadcasting is Australia’s distribution is much faster and more cost effective largest language laboratory. It pays social, cultural and economic dividends. Ethnic community radio is volunteer based, community backed, and authoritative. As the It provides support and information to new settlers, former Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural comfort and companionship to the elderly, and has Affairs, Hon Gary Hardgrave, has written, ethnic helped Australia grow from a marginal British community broadcasters are “uniquely trusted by 6 outpost on the fringe of Asia to a confident multi- their communities” cultural society able to handle the diversity and 1 4EB (Brisbane), 2000FM (Sydney), 1CMS (Canberra), complexity of the modern world. Support for ethnic 3ZZZ (Melbourne), 5EBI (Adelaide), 6EBA (Perth) community broadcasting is an investment in a 2 208.5 hours per week for capital city community stations, peaceful and tolerant present, and a prosperous compared to 139 hours per week from SBS Radio. Details are in the body of the attached submission. future. 3 The new and emerging communities currently broadcasting from community stations include: Afghan, Albanian, Bangladeshi, Bosnia- Hercegovinian, Currently there are ethnic community programs Burmese, Cambodian & Hmong, Columbian, Cook Islands, across Australia that provide vital news and Croatian, Eritrean, Ethiopian (Oromo and Harari), Fijian, information in some 100 languages. In addition, Ghana, Halaj, Indonesian, Iranian, Iraqi, Kimi, Kiribati, Korean, Kurdish, Mauri, Mexican, Pakistan (Punjabi), Papua these programs provide important links between New Guinean, Pacific Islanders, Russian, Samoan, Serbian migrant groups and the wider community ,Sierra Leone, Slovenian, Somali, South African, Sri Lankan (Sinhala and Tamil), Sudanese, Syrian, Taiwan, Tamil, Thai, Timorese, Tongan According to the 2001 Census 20% of the population speak a language other than English at 4 “ Message to Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters”, The Ethnic Broadcaster, Autumn 2003 home. 5 Community Broadcasting Foundation, Annual Report, 2003- 4. This support only applies to programs broadcast between Community radio stations encourage people from 6.00 am and midnight. Ethnic Community Radio broadcasts more than 1278 hours per week of original programs on just different cultures to come together as volunteer under 100 stations. Ethnic Community radio receives $2.6 broadcasters sharing a common resource, rather million in government funding. than stay isolated in their own communities. 6 Special Broadcasting Service, Annual Report, 2003-4. SBS Radio runs one national service, and has a second, local Appropriate service in Sydney and Melbourne, and receives $31.5 million in government funding. Between midnight and dawn SBS In recent years the government has identified radio broadcasts 126 hours per week on each of its three support for programs for new and emerging stations.

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At its last meeting the NEMBC undertaking AERTP them that we are opposed to the Executive decided to revive, in training on CD free of charging of fees for the modified form, the Australian charge, except for government funded course. Ethnic Radio Training Project. postage. · The NEMBC office will While some training under this AERTP Mark II, as the project offer advice and contact scheme will be available to ethnic will be known, will provide training details regarding suitable broadcasters in metropolitan specifically designed for ethnic trainers. However the areas, it is likely that places will community broadcasters. The selection of trainers, and be limited. key features of the scheme are any payment of trainers, as follows: will be the responsibility The NEMBC recommends that of the relevant station. ethnic broadcasters consider · The training will follow applying for training through the the highly regarded How will AERTP Mark II differ scheme administered by the AERTP curriculum which from a new training scheme to be CBF. This scheme has the has been developed by administered by the Community advantage that it has government the NEMBC over the Broadcasting Foundation? funding support. However past ten years. access to this scheme may be · Training will be available The scheme administered by the limited, and it may not be as at three levels – Level CBF will cover all community flexible as you would like. Two (Beginner), Level radio stations, not just stations Moreover, a fee may be charged. Three (Intermediate) and with ethnic broadcasters. The In contrast AERTP Mark II is Level Four (Advanced) bulk of this fund will go to flexible, involves a minimum of · Certificates, which will broadcasters in regional, remote paperwork, offers you a bear the NEMBC logo, and rural communities. It is maximum of choice and can be will be issued at station likely that a very large proportion customised to suit your needs. level. These certificates of the CBF’s fund will be eaten Our scheme will use the will be recognised by the up by administrative costs, which established and well regarded National Ethnic and will serve to limit the funds AERTP curriculum, and you can Multicultural available for training under this use the trainer of your choice. Broadcasters Council. scheme. We are still awaiting However you will need to come to They will not necessarily formal notification of the final your own arrangements with the be recognised by details of the CBF scheme, but trainer that you use. stations not affiliated on the information available to with the NEMBC. date we are greatly concerned · Detailed notes for both that the CBF scheme may be For more details about AERTP trainers and trainees will over centralised, and that a very Mark II, or for more up to date be available for free large proportion of the funding information about the training download from the may be swallowed up in scheme funded by the NEMBC web site. administrative costs. We have government through the CBF, · Resource materials will made these concerns known to contact the NEMBC Secretariat be provided to stations the CBF, and have also advised on (03) 9486 9549.

TheThe Ethnic Ethnic Broadcaster Broadcaster,, Spring Winter 20052004 - 7 >>>Researchfeature cDONALD’S RADIO In the Winter 2003 edition of the licence to Radio Rhema Gosford. similar to the McDonalds or VIP Ethnic Broadcaster Norbert model. Lindberg from Wyong-Gosford Quite apart from the procedural Progressive Community Radio irregularities initially found by Influence Inc (PCR-FM) wrote a Justice Wilcox of the Federal description of how his station Court, the NEMBC has a number Our concern is not with the had successfully challenged a of concerns about the award of religious affiliation of the stations decision of the Australian the licence to Radio Rhema as such, but rather with the Broadcasting Authority in the above a local group. influence of the UCB/Vision Federal Court. Australia organisation over those Radio Rhema Gosford and Radio stations. While Vision PCR-FM began more than ten Rhema Newcastle are both Australia’s 335 stations run as a years ago and provided a members of an organisation centrally organised network, with volunteer based community radio known as United Christian all programs coming from the service for the Gosford area in a Broadcasters (UCB) according to Vision FM /UCB headquarters range of community languages. the UCB web site. According to in Brisbane, the Rhema Network Over this time it operated under that site seventeen Rhema operates on a looser model. a range of temporary licences. affiliates across Australia are According to the UCB web site: When the time came for the associated with the UCB. issue of a permanent licence the Meanwhile the UCB also runs , UCB Australia partners with ABA issued the licence to Radio Vision FM from the same office a number of FM stations, Rhema Gosford, which would premises. UCB Chief Executive, owned and operated by the have had the effect of taking Ian Worby, is also Chief local community. These PCR-FM off air. Executive of Vision FM. Vision groups are mostly found in FM runs a network of 335 the larger towns and cities Local status narrowcast radio stations and often utilise the throughout Australia. Narrowcast successful Rhema brand PCR-FM had challenged the stations are licenced under and format used in New local status of Radio Rhema different conditions to community Zealand. Founded on the Newcastle, which was an stations, and are generally lower principles and vision of UCB, existing licence holder in the powered. these stations work in Newcastle area. After association with each other, applications had closed the ABA Not quite Rupert Murdoch with UCB Australia as the permitted Radio Rhema facilitator. Currently twenty Newcastle to submit a new In total the web site says that two of these stations are application on behalf of a new some 357 radio stations (335 broadcasting permanently. entity, Radio Rhema Gosford. A narrowcast and 22 community) few weeks later the ABA issued are affiliated with UCB/Vision The UCB web site reveals that a licence to Radio Rhema Australia. The Chief Executive of UCB runs the following central Gosford. UCB and Vision Australia, Mr Ian functions: Worby, may not be as powerful · UCB News … Australia’s PCR-FM successfully as Kerry Packer or Rupert only nationwide Christian challenged this action in the Murdoch, but he does have worldview news service, Federal Court, and the ABA was extraordinary influence over radio which is heard hourly from 6 obliged to acknowledge that in Australia. In addition to being am - 8 pm every process was unfair and that the the Chief Executive of Vision weekday….If you run a radio application from Radio Rhema Australia and UCB, he was also station, you can also access Gosford was invalid. listed in the October 2004 this news service through a Newsletter of Rhema Sydney as satellite link. For stations The ABA later went through a a director of that aspirant station. that don’t already have the new licence application process. necessary equipment to Once again both PCR-FM and Some critics have described the receive the signal via Radio Rhema Gosfrod were UCB/Vision FM arrangement as satellite, UCB Australia will among the applicants. Once a cartel. That is possibly going supply a satellite dish and again the ABA awarded the too far – it is probably decoder to community

88 - -The The Ethnic Ethnic Broadcaster Broadcaster, Winter, Spring 2004 2005 “As a station which has , of community languages broadcast in a wide range broadcasters, which depends on volunteer , and which is responsible to a local community PCR-FM has the support of the NEMBC.”.

stations who need them, at Meanwhile the Rhema of listeners as Newcastle is cost price plus shipping. Gosford section reads: unlikely because it has a smaller · UCB Direct – mail order coverage area, a smaller staff and videos, DVDs, CDs, books With Rhema FM you have a has not been on air so long. etc.. target, dedicated audience; In 2002, our listeners raised Again the only way that these The claim that Rhema affiliates claims can be true is if Rhema are independent stations “owned a record of more than $200,000 in less than 72 Gosford and Rhema Newcastle and operated by the local are effectively the same station. community” is open to question, hours to enable Rhema FM to expand broadcasting particularly when we look at the This raised a broader question capabilities and broaden our relationship between Rhema about the Rhema network, or demographics to what they Gosford, Rhema Newcastle and franchise. With both commercial are today. Rhema Sydney, and the various and national broadcasters hats worn by Ian Worby and John becoming increasingly networked Marks. Now that’s strange, because Rhema Gosford did not exist in the assumption was that the 2002. The only way that the community broadcasting sector Of the eight broadcasters whose would be different in a number of names and photographs appear above statements could be true is if Rhema Gosford and Rhema ways. It was assumed that on the Rhema Gosford web community stations would be pages all but one are also on the Newcastle are effectively the same station. locally controlled and locally staff of Rhema Newcastle. staffed, and that the on air Furthermore John Marks, who is broadcasters would be primarily listed as the General Manager of Elsewhere on the web site the two Rhemas are making local volunteers from the Rhema Newcastle is also listed community. as the Interim General Manager contradictory claims: of Rhema Gosford. We Rhema FM Gosford is the However the Rhema network understand that Mr Marks is also fastest growing Community seems to be based on a a Director of United Christian radio station with an professional model with the great Broadcasters Australia Limited estimated listening audience majority of broadcasters being and is also involved with Rhema upwards of 30,000 listeners a paid employees, while volunteers Sydney. Moreover the two day. Rhema FM Gosford is a are relegated to menial stations share the same email leader in the national Rhema backroom tasks. With a strong address for their advertising network of 30 Rhema central office able to control 335 department, and share the same stations…. Vision Australia stations and website. influence 22 Rhema affiliate Rhema FM Newcastle is the stations there is a question about Identity Confusion fastest growing Community the degree to which local radio station with an communities exercise real There is further identity control. When individuals like Ian confusion. The Rhema estimated listening audience upwards of 30,000 listeners a Worby and John Marks wear the Newcastle section of the number of hats that they do, combined website says: day. Rhema FM Newcastle is a leader in the national there is further reason for concern. With Rhema FM you have a Rhema network of 30 Rhema stations …. target, dedicated audience; As a station which has broadcast In 2002, our listeners raised Both claim to be the “fastest in a wide range of community a record of more than languages, which depends on $200,000 in less than 72 growing community radio station”, both claim to be leaders volunteer broadcasters, and hours to enable Rhema FM which is responsible to a local to expand broadcasting of the “national Rhema network” and both claim to have the same community, PCR-FM has the capabilities and broaden our support of the NEMBC. demographics to what they number of listeners. Gosford’s are today. claim to have the same number

TheThe Ethnic Ethnic Broadcaster Broadcaster,, Spring Winter 20052004 - 9 CAMPAIGN TRAIL Likely to Incite Hatred

The Australian Broadcasting Authority has made a the worst type of behaviour I’ve ever seen occurring formal finding that commercial broadcaster Festival in Australia here. If you’re a member of an City Broadasters (Radio 5AA in Adelaide) Aboriginal community, give me a call and let’s have broadcast a program, in the Bob Francis Show an argument about it. “which was likely to have incited or perpetuated hatred against or vilified Aboriginal people on the Shortly after Francis related a comment from a basis of their race”. listener. The listener, according to Francis, had said: Many people would regard this finding as an You ever noticed how the police have to talk to understatement. The conduct of the station, and leaders of the Aboriginal community after periods of the broadcaster involved, should be widely trouble involving Aborigines? Yet if white exposed. Unfortunately it appears that this Australians were involved, do police talk to leaders incident has received little reporting in the of the white community? Seems odd to me, what mainstream media. The Advertiser, the only daily do you think? newspaper in Adelaide, the home town of Bob Francis, carried a short report, but gave no details Francis responded: about the contents of the program. Steve, you’ve got me, you smooth-talking devil. I can’t believe that, it really bugs me. People are so The Advertiser article quoted Francis as saying bloody nice, we’re getting so bloody do-goody- “there’s no way that I’m a racist”. I suggest that goody. And we need to stick it right up them as far readers should make their own judgement about as I’m concerned. that claim. The full text of the ABA report can be found on the Internet1 , but this summary will give The presenter invited listeners to phone in, and later readers a good idea of the content of the program. the following exchange took place between listener Keith and the presenter: The program in question related to a riot by Aboriginal people in Redfern following the death, in KEITH: They should just demolish it (Redfern, controversial circumstances, of Aboriginal teenager where the riot occurred) and relocate the people. TJ Hickey, 17. There were allegations that he was being pursued by police at the time of his death. BOB FRANCIS: The do-gooders would move in and say, “Where do you put those people?” I don’t care! “The conduct of the station, According to the ABA report Francis again referred and the broadcaster involved to the alleged description of the Redfern riot as a should be widely exposed .” display of grief by blowing another raspberry and saying “Display of grief! In your bum!” According to the ABA report Bob Francis introduced the issue like this: In an exchange with another caller, Michael, Francis supported statements from Michael to the The Aboriginal elders – have a listen to this;listen, effect that Aboriginal people were reluctant to work. listen, sit and listen; put your ears close to the radio – the Aboriginal elders in Sydney have called When Michael referred to the highly respected the riots in Sydney a ‘display of grief’. [Blows a Aboriginal leader Charles Perkins, Francis ‘raspberry’] How dare you call it a display of grief? commented “Pig’s bum”. You dirty, rotten bastards. Getting out there and fighting the police in a situation like that, and Another caller, Gary, suggested that Redfern should calling that a ‘display of grief’? It was a display of be bulldozed, and remarked that if he, Gary, had

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been a policeman on duty at the riot he would pleasant, and being, you know, politically correct have emptied his gun into the crowd. Here is the about the whole situation. ABA’s account of the exchange: In deciding whether or not the broadcast was GARY: Bob, on the ferals of Redfern, mate, let likely to incite racial hatred the Australian me tell you if I was, or if I or yourself were in Broadcasting Authority found that: power in New South Wales, those undesirables would be locked up, no doubt about it. O The presenter deduced from the Redfern riot a generalised disgrace pertaining to all FRANCIS: The whole of Redfern - Aboriginal people. O The broadcast suggested that laziness was GARY: Should be bulldozed. characteristic of all Aboriginal people. O The broadcast suggested that Aboriginal FRANCIS: Should be absolutely bulldozed. And people were undeserving of sympathy. For I want to hear from all the do-gooders who say, example, Francis repeatedly said that he did “Oh, goodness me, what would you do with all the not care what happened to Aboriginal people if people who live there?” Bloody stiff cheese! their Redfern homes were demolished. O The use of pejorative terms and course Later in the conversation language, while the language in itself may not have offended the programs intended audience, GARY: You and I pay taxes and our tax goes to contributed to a highly-charged emotional people like them, OK? That aren’t prepared to atmosphere and was a factor contributing to work. They’re not prepared to work. the likely effect of inciting hatred against Aboriginal people. Francis later commented that he felt “sorry for the poor bloody police” and Gary commented: “I’m sick of people being so

GARY: I tell you what, mate, if I was a copper bloody kind, and nice, and over there and had emptied a few – er – few pleasant, and being, you rounds of my firearm, mate, let me tell you, I know, politically correct wouldn’t have missed any of them. about the whole situation.”

FRANCIS: Well, mate, you see, the point is, you The ABA found that not only had the station can’t do that. Everything is so touchy in broadcast material that was likely to have incited situations like that. racial hatred, but that had also failed to respond to a written complaint from a listener who wrote to the Another caller, Anton returned to the allegation station. that Aboriginal people are lazy. What was the punishment for these breaches? ANTON: These helpless, useless, lazy people, The ABA has taken no action, except to find that if they don’t like the system which supports there were two breaches of the Code of Practice, them, which gives them medical health, which and to note that Bob Francis, and others will be gives them education, which gives them housing, given “training and assistance” by station 5AA, and gives them all the facilities all we taxpayers take that the station will monitor its program output. for granted, if they don’t bloody like it, why don’t they go back to the bloody bush! In March of 2005, shortly following the broadcast, 5AA topped the radio ratings for Adelaide. FRANCIS: Well, you see, that would be classified as being very – ah – very racist, but 1 http://www.aba.gov.au/newspubs/radio_TV/ I’ve allowed you to say it, because I know that investigations/broadcast_operations/documents/ the majority of people in Australia think radio/2005/1395_5AA.pdf exactly the way you do. And I’m sick of people being so bloody kind, and nice, and

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in the movement for immigration reform, GIVING NEW HORIZONS that too strident an approach would be counter productive. There were elements to our mind in the government, and in the By Darce Cassidy bureaucracy, he said, that wanted to The process of watering down the White Australia move away from the White Australia Policy began, slowly and cautiously, after the Policy, but they feared a backlash if this second world war, but it wasn’t until 1973 that Al were done too openly. Our role should be Grassby, Immigration Minister in the Whitlam to work in a quiet and reasoned way on government, declared it dead and buried. While public opinion, while progressive forces confirming that the White Australia Policy is within the government slowly whittled indeed dead, Gwenda Tavan concludes The Long away at White Australia. Slow Death of White Australia with a comment on “the power of the dead to haunt future A fellow student at Sydney University, generations.” In Australia’s case, she wrote, Phillip Ruddock, was sympathetic to our “race remains the proverbial skeleton in the aims. He was President of the Pennant closet”. Hills Branch of the Young Liberals, and he invited me to address a meeting of the In the early part of the twentieth century the Young Liberals on the issue. Also at this skeleton was on full view. Proponents of the meeting was the then National President White Australia Policy were unashamedly racist. of the Young Liberals, John Howard. Both However by the second half of the century, Howard and Ruddock were happy to see conscious of a need to maintain good the case against White Australia put to relationships with Asia, the language began to their members, but carefully avoided change. committing themselves in public. It was obvious that both would go further in the Reading this book as the Howard government world of parliamentary politics. announced measures to soften its policy of mandatory detention of asylum seekers I It was this slow behind the scenes wondered if it would take another twenty years to dismantling of the White Australia Policy exorcise what could be described as the ghost of that has led some to argue that the White Australia, the policy of mandatory detention. abolition of the White Australia Policy was the work of elites, and that it never had Just as both of the major the informed consent of parties today support a policy In Australia’s case, she the Australian people. of mandatory detention, there wrote, “race remains the Gwenda Tavan quotes was also bi-partisan support sociologist Katherine for the White Australia Policy proverbial skeleton in Betts as arguing that the for most of its life. Behind the the closet”. dismantling of White scenes however, there was a Australia was the result pragmatic acknowledgement that the policy was of an elite conspiracy. This conspiracy, damaging Australia’s reputation, and a gradual Betts suggested, failed to convert White and at times secretive softening of the policy. Australia supporters by reason and evidence, and left them “unconverted and I first became aware of this in the early 1960s outmanoeuvred.” This, it was argued, when, as a young student, I joined the NSW had resulted in growing public Association for Immigration Reform. This was to resentment. be my first serious political involvement. All fired up to denounce the White Australia Policy, the Tavan’s book clearly shows that there Menzies government and the Calwell opposition, I was a great deal of timidity, and a degree was cautioned by Dr Ken Rivett, the leading figure of secrecy, in the way in which the policy

1212 - The- The Ethnic Ethnic Broadcaster Broadcaster, Winter, Spring 2004 2005 was modified. There was a tendency to Gwenda Tavan reveals that one, the use behind the scenes administrative Reverend Alan Walker, a Methodist minister, changes, rather than parliamentary was years ahead of his time. No doubt he legislation, to effect change. But despite was opposed to racism, and wanted good this, Tavan’s account convincingly relationships with our Asian neighbours, but in demonstrates that, whatever their a 1947 pamphlet he went beyond arguments predecessors may have done, both the based on pragmatism or altruism to suggest Whitlam and Fraser governments were that the White Australia policy had to go for open and forthright in our own good, and not just for declaring the White “..getting to know people the good of people wanting to Australia policy settle here. Arguing that White abolished. from other lands would Australia had shaped a narrow ‘deepen our emotional and parochial Australian soul, he It would be difficult to be life, extend the range of wrote that getting to know more forthright than Al people from other lands would Grassby who toured Asia our imagination, “deepen our emotional life, to promote his and give new extend the range of our government’s reforms to horizons to our mind’.” imagination, and give new its immigration policy. In horizons to our mind.” the Phillipines he said, in typical Grassby style, “It is dead. Give me a shovel and I will At a time the commitment of both major bury it.” parties to multiculturalism seems to be declining, Gwenda Tavan has done well to The Fraser government made no attempt to remind us of Alan Walker’s words. undo the work of Grassby and Whitlam. On The Long Slow Death of White Australia, by the contrary Fraser, assisted by Petro Gwenda Tavan, is published by Scribe Georgio, increased support for Publications. multiculturalism and, most notably, welcomed thousands of refugees from Indochina.

The Long Slow Death of White Australia is meticulously researched and lucidly written. It calmly and convincingly demolishes the argument that the White Australia Policy was abolished without the consent of the Australian people, and it documents the gradual changes in immigration policy, and the significant changes in public opinion over years. It shows how the policy moved from prohibition through a policy of assimilation, to a policy of integration and then to one of multiculturalism.

Some of the reformers such as Richard Casey and Arthur Tange appear to have been motivated by pragmatic considerations, including the need to build good relationships with Asian countries. Others, like many in the immigration reform movements, were motivated by opposition to racism.

TheThe Ethnic Ethnic Broadcaster Broadcaster,, Spring Winter 20052004 - 13 >>>research update REGIONAL, REMOTE, RADICAL: AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY BROADCASTING The qualitative audience research project examining AUDIENCES TALK BACK community broadcasting audiences around Australia Part of the method will has announced the next · Plenty Valley fm 88.6 – involve identifying potential Macedonian phase of its work which will (established translators to assist with the involve a range of audience community) operation of some of the focus groups with ethnic focus groups, and to also community broadcasting · 3CR – Vietnamese assist with the translation of audiences. youth program the recorded data after the research is complete. We On the advice of the NEMBC, · 3ZZZ – Sudanese will be liaising further with the the project team from Griffith program (emerging NEMBC to identify translators University in Brisbane has community) and Turkish from the various settled on 11 languages and program (established communities and regions related programs that will be community) selected. Furthermore, the studied early next year as part researchers will be taking of the project. · 4EB – Chinese youth advice from the NEMBC, program (established) translators and program The Qualitative Audience and Greeks Seniors presenters/researchers Project has received funding program (established). regarding culturally from the Australian Research appropriate research Council and is also supported · 5EBI – Tongan program methods for the ethnic financially by the Community (emerging community) audience component of the Broadcasting Foundation, project. CBAA and DCITA. The · TEN73 Border FM – Serbian (both emerging A timeline for the ethnic qualitative audience project is & established) and quite separate from the Croatian (both emerging audience research should quantitative study conducted & established) see most of the data last year by McNair Ingenuity collected by May-June 2006 which did not include the · 104.1TOP FM – Filipino/ with data analysis and ethnic broadcasting sector. Tagalog (established reporting of the findings to community) and occur in the latter half of The project team is currently Indonesian (emerging) 2006. The preliminary results working on completing program. will be presented to the audience focus groups, NEMBC National Conference community group interviews in 2006 and will also be and station manager contained in a range of other interviews for the generalist These stations have all been conference papers and metropolitan and regional contacted and advised of their publications emerging from stations, with a further round selection. We are awaiting the broader study. of fieldwork being undertaken confirmation of their intention in a range of remote, regional to participate in the project. The researchers on the and urban Indigenous Once individual program project are associated with communities. representatives are Griffith University’s Centre for YOUTH REPORTcontacted, we can begin to Public Culture and Ideas. The ethnic component of the design a method suitable to Broadcasters who are project will kick off around these specialist audiences. interested further in the February next year, when We will be largely guided by project can contact Senior audience focus groups and those involved with the Researcher Kerrie Foxwell, interviews will begin with a program for culturally [email protected], or range of programs and their appropriate methods to any of the Chief listeners from around the ensure optimum participation. Investigators: nation. We will continue laying the Associate Professor Michael foundations for the ethnic Meadows, The following language audience fieldwork in the [email protected] groups and related programs coming months to enable the Dr Susan Forde, have been chosen for study focus group discussions to [email protected] after consideration by the occur (as per the schedule) in Jacqui Ewart, Executive of the NEMBC: the first half of 2006. [email protected].

1414 - -The The Ethnic Ethnic Broadcaster Broadcaster, Winter, Spring 2004 2005 >>>station news Member News THE PASSING OF AN ERA Cav. Alessandro (Alex) Lutero, President for 27 years Catholic Church, Subiaco on Tuesday 26th July 2005 of the Multicultural Radio & TV Association of WA with approx 250 persons in attendance including the Inc. (licensee of World Radio 6EBA 95.3 FM) passed Italian Vice-Consul for Western Australia. Alex’s away on Tuesday 19 July 2005, after a long and coffin was draped in an Italian flag made up of red, debilitating illness, aged 82. white and green flowers from the MRTA of WA Inc.

He is survived by his wife Joyce, daughters Teresa After the service, many of the congregation shared and Anna, Sister Franca and brother-in -law Dale and afternoon tea and their reminiscences of Alex, in son-in-law Maurice. the garden of his Subiaco home. His pride and joy, a three-tiered ornamental fountain (built with love by In a letter to the Lutero family, NEMBC President Alex) was re-commissioned the day before the George Zangalis wrote, “He was the founder, not only service. of Perth’s Ethnic Community Radio Station 6EBA, but also of the national body of ethnic and mulitcultural It is important to record that ethnic community broadcasters, the NEMBC. broadcasting in Western Australia would not have seen the light of day when it Alex served the NEMBC with distinction as President did, were it not for the and Executive member. tenacious and determined work of Alex and a few On his retirment he was awarded NEMBC’s highest stalwart supporters. honour of life membership. Alex is sorely missed, but Alex’s love of literature, music, food and dancing left he and that smile will an ever lasting and warm impression on those who always watch over us. met and worked with him”.

A celebration of his life was held at St. Joseph’s

stations 3MBS, 3RRR, and at An average day for Jo at 3ZZZ other media outlets including the involves assisting broadcasters Herald Sun, the ABC, the and other volunteers, grant community radio satellite news writing, answering emails, policy service and Triple J. development and working on current projects. In the past 3zzz “I’m really hoping that some of month she has assisted the my experience with young NEMBC by following up some welcomes volunteers will help me Victorian stations for feedback, encourage youth involvement at both for the NEMBC Conference jo! 3ZZZ,” she says. “Plus, I’m and for the NEMBC’s targeted Fresh from managing the hoping that the young ethnic funding submission. “For me, Melbourne youth station, SYN broadcasters from Serbia, working in a team and enjoying FM, Jo Curtin has arrived at full- Somalia and other places that my work is so important, and I time ethnic station 3ZZZ with were trained at SYN will come have found the work at 3ZZZ to enthusiasm and energy. But across to 3ZZZ.” Broadcasters be fun, challenging and she’s not the only one from SYN at SYN must be aged under-26, rewarding,” says Jo, who has FM to have cut her teeth in the and the station has a high worked for 3ZZZ for nearly four youth station and then moved on. turnover of programs to months. “The highlight of my encourage high levels of access - work is meeting and assisting “So many of last year’s staff and Jo hopes that the broadcasters broadcasters – their diverse volunteer crew at SYN FM moved who have had their turn on youth backgrounds have helped me on to employment in the media – radio will find a longer-term home learn more about the world – and it really is the breeding ground for at 3ZZZ one day, just like she of course, the broadcasters have tomorrow’s media makers,” says has. “The community radio such energy and enjoyment for Jo. While Jo has found a new sector is such a dynamic family their work, and that rubs off on us home at full-time ethnic radio – serving such a diverse range of staff.” station, 3ZZZ, her colleagues needs in the community. I’m just have found work at community glad I’m a part of it.”

TheThe Ethnic Ethnic Broadcaster Broadcaster,, Spring Winter 20052004 - 15 Ahmed’s presenting ‘easy listening’ for 2AAA Voluntary work at 3ZZZ listeners! I have first heard about the 3ZZZ radio when I have decided to The Multicultural section of 2AAA- join the City of Whittlesea Volunteers. FM, Wagga Wagga, is very excited The people who had interviewed me had suggested me to call about their newest member, Ahmed Diyab, who has been presenting his the 3ZZZ Manager and ask him if they are in need of someone program “Rhythm of Africa” in the to help around the office. Hararin and Amharic languages Mr Martin Wright the Station Manager has told me to come to since April 2005. the Station and I did. Born in Ethiopia, his family left his homeland because the country was I met Mr Wright and Mrs Annette Parton and we discussed unstable, with war conflict, and the what sort of work experience is that I am looking for. We family could see no future. They agreed that I could start the following week. left for Egypt where they successfully applied for immigration I remember that I left the station with a pleasant feeling. to Australia. They arrived in 1991 and settled in Melbourne. From the first day of my involvement in radio everyone was The first years were difficult, unable supportive and helpful and I felt accepted and part of the team. to speak any English and I worked well with Annette who was my mentor. experiencing the clashes of a She had taught me everything I know about the station’s different culture. Ahmed graduated from high school and worked in everyday administration routine. various areas as a salesman and I was asked for the opinion many times. My work at the photographer. station had always been appreciated and my ideas had been accepted. In 2000 he went back to Ethiopia to visit family and toured extensively for six months trying to catch up on Dobrovoljni rad u 3ZZZ history, tradition and culture, which he was too young to appreciate Prvi puta sam cula za Radio 3ZZZ kada when he first left. sam postala clan volontera u City of Whittlesea Volunteers. Upon his return he worked for a while for a mobile phone company before applying to Charles Sturt Razgovarala sam sa clanovima uprave o University, Wagga Wagga in 2004, tome sta bih zeljela da radim I oni su me where he is now studying ohrabrili da stupim u kontakt sa Multimedia and Graphic design. Menagerom 3ZZZ Radio Stanice, Gospodinom Martinom He enjoys the more laidback Wright. attitude and friendliness of the local people as compared to the Nazvala sam Gospodina Martina I dogovorila da dodjem u perceived tensions in Melbourne, Stanicu na razgovor. and loves the multicultural mix of Kada sam dosla na razgovor upoznala sam Gospodina the students at CSU. Martina I Gospodju Annette Parton. Razgovarali smo o tome Besides his fortnightly Ethiopian sta bih ja voljela da radim u Stanici. program he also hosts a monthly session of “Sunday Easy Mix” Ja sam zeljela da steknem malo iskustva u administraciji pa which, as the title states, is easy smo odlucili da pocnem sa radom od sljedece nedjelje. listening. Sjecam se da sam napustila 3ZZZ sa osjecajem zadovoljstva.

Od prvog dana rada u 3ZZZ svi zaposleni su mi davali podrsku I pomoc pa sam se osjecala prihvacena I kao dio tima. Radila sam u kancelariji sa Gospodjom Parton koja mi je bila mentor. Ona me je naucila sve sto znam o svakodnevnom radu administracije u 3ZZZ. Cesto sam bila konsultovana za misljenje. Moj trud je bio cijenjen a moje ideje su bile prihvacene u vecini slucajeva.

Nermina Mulabegovic 3ZZZ

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NEMBC’S TONY MANICAROS AWARD NOW OPEN!

AWARD GUIDELINES The Tony Manicaros Award is an annual award broadcasting sector. Creative and to fund a project of significance for ethnic innovative projects are encouraged. community broadcasting. It is open to stations, Preference will be given to projects that programming groups and individuals. Proposals would have difficulty receiving funding or that will be considered for the award include sufficient funding from other sources projects which: - produce special programming of CONDITIONS OF THE AWARD significance to a national audience, Funding of up to $1500 will be made to the specific target group or to mark winner of the award. significant historic or present day events Projects must be completed within 6 - produce programming across a number months. of stations as part of a festival, to An individual applying for training must celebrate a significant event, etc. demonstrate they are of low income. - assist with oral history, documenting or The NEMBC is to be given permission to archiving of material of significance for use the project for non-commercial ethnic community broadcasting purposes - produce cultural information or A successful applicant cannot reapply in the programming of benefit to ethnic following year. The award is a one off grant. community broadcasting - produce and distribute information of INFORMATION ABOUT THE AWARD benefit to ethnic programmers or The winner of the award will be announced stations with ethnic programming annually at the NEMBC conference. - provide specialised training for broadcasters and particularly The decision of the Tony Manicaros Award broadcasters under represented in Trustees is final. ethnic community broadcasting - undertake study in the media that would As an equal opportunity organisation we assist a programme or station in its welcome applications from young people, programming, technical, administrative women and emerging communities. or management development - develop equipment of benefit to the Contact the National Ethnic and Multicultural sector Broadcasters’ Council for more details on Preference will be given to projects that are how to apply: [email protected] or significant for the ethnic community (03) 9486 9549.

Visit www.nembc.org.au to download an application form

TheThe Ethnic Ethnic Broadcaster Broadcaster,, Spring Winter 20052004 - 17 NATIONAL ETHNIC & MULTICULTURAL BROADCASTERS’ CONFERENCE 2005 Multicultural Community Broadcasting: NOVEMBER 25 - 27 Empowering & Connecting MERCURE HOTEL Communities Corner Gheringhap Street and Myers Street GEELONG, VICTORIA

A Partnership between: Multicultural Community Broadcasting: Australia’s Prime Multicultural & Multilingual Institution Broadcasting in over 100 languages The Conference is proudly supported by: with over 2000 volunteers

Friday 25th of November 11:00 - 1:00 Registration 4:30 WORKSHOPS 1:45 WORKSHOPS 1:00 Conference Opening Networking & Special Youth: Plug In / The Strength & Interest groups Improve your Significance of 7:00 CONFERENCE Communication Ethnic Community RECEPTION Skills Broadcasting 2:45 WORKSHOPS 2:20 PLENARY Saturday 26th of November Interviewing Funding Cuts for 9:30 PLENARY techniques / Ethnic Community Women & Broadcasting Ethnic Grants Broadcasting 11:00PLENARY 4:05 WORKSHOPS & Other Migrant Empowering New & Youth Report / Rural Services Emerging Communities & Regional 3:45 WORKSHOPS 12:00PLENARY Broadcasters Youth Forum / Multiculturalism - A 7:30 CONFERENCE DINNER Working & Engaging Core Australian Value with Communities 1:00 Lunch Sunday 27th of November 9:00 - 1:00 NEMBC AGM * Program subject to amendments

Benefits of Attending the Conference Any questions about * The Conference will provide a space for networking and the Conference, making connection with other ethnic broadcasters. please contact: * The Conference will enable you to gain skills and knowl PO Box 1144 Collingwood VIC 3066 edge to improve your radio program. Phone: * The Conference will provide a forum to discuss issues (03) 9486 9549 concerning ethnic community broadcasting around Fax: Australia. (03) 9415 1818 * It’s the first time the NEMBC Conference is being held in Email: a regional area - so come along and see the great sites [email protected] of Geelong and its surrounding areas. Web: www.nembc.org.au

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Venue and dates * The conference theme is “Multicultural Community Broadcasting: Empowering & Connecting Communities” * The conference will be held on Friday 25th November to Sunday 27th November 2004, at the Mercure Hotel, corner of Gheringhap and Myers Streets in Geelong. The Mercure Hotel’s website wwww.mercuregeelong.com.au provides accommodation details.

Registration Please note: Early Bird Registrations must be made by Friday 28th October.

* NEMBC members just $125 * Concession registration rate of $100 available for all young people (under 30), students and pension/ benefit recipients. * Registration for non-NEMBC members is $200

Please note: Registrations received after Friday 28th October * NEMBC members are $155 * Concession registration rate of $130 * Registration for non-NEMBC members is $230 * The NEMBC always aims to keep registration costs for this national three-day conference as low as possible. Registration includes morning and afternoon tea all weekend, a reception to open the conference on Friday night, and lunch on Saturday. The Conference Dinner costs $45. Delegates are to make their own dinner arrangements on other nights.

NEMBC Membership costs just $25 per year (includes GST) per programming group * If you are not already a member, join now and save $100 on the cost of registration! Travel Subsidies for Official Station Delegates

* Travel subsidies from the following capital cities will be at least:

Brisbane ------$ 100.00 Sydney ------$ 90.00 Hobart ------$ 75.00 Darwin ------$ 225.00 Perth ------$ 222.50 Adelaide ------$ 85.00 Canberra ------$ 107.00

These are the minimum amounts of subsidy to be paid. If finances permit a slightly higher subsidy may be available.

If you do not live in a capital city an additional subsidy to cover the travel costs to the nearest capital city will be available.

Station Delegates with voting rights at the NEMBC AGM (Sunday morning 27 November) will need to forward a letter of appointment signed by the President, Secretary or Manager of your station or ethnic umbrella group by Friday 11th November 2005 to NEMBC AGM, PO Box 1144, Fitzroy VIC 3066

For more information: (03) 9486 9549 [email protected] www.nembc.org.au PO Box 1144, Collingwood VIC 3066

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The Heartbeat of Geelong The Pulse ‘94.7 The Pulse’ has a long migrant population in Geelong and Geelong and it’s surrounding tradition of providing the surrounding regions. Diversitat districts as it is the regions only community of Geelong and its’ was originally founded by 5 broad based community radio surrounding regions with a regional ethnic groups and is now station. Broadcasting 24 hours a relevant and informative comprised of 33 affiliated groups day, 7 days a week we provide a community radio broadcast. The and became an incorporated body diverse range of programs that idea for a public radio station in the in 1983. Diversitat represents the cater for an extensive cross section Geelong region was initiated in interests of ethnic groups and the of the local community. November 1984 at a public general population in Geelong and meeting. After several test surrounding regions and has a The station is committed to broadcasts and further lobbying, close working relationship with providing the local community with the committee received an local indigenous groups. timely and accurate information application for a license hearing in Diversitat is also a regional leader about what is happening in the early 1988. The station adopted the in the provision of aged care, youth, Geelong region. The station is call sign of 3YYR-FM and employment and training services also committed to supporting local commenced full time broadcasting and delivers over 50 community arts, music, theatre and community on May 1, 1988. service programs for both migrants groups. Our programming and the broader community. includes news, current affairs, The station went through a number specialist music programs, local of name changes before settling Diversitat became the licensee of sport, multicultural programs, as 94.7 The Pulse in 2001In recent 94.7 The Pulse after the station youth programs and lifestyle times Diversitat has assumed the had encountered significant programs. management of the station in order financial difficulties and the to secure the stations long term Geelong Community Radio Co- Diversitat and 94.7 The Pulse are future, after a turbulent recent past. Operative was no longer able to proud to be involved in community The station is currently undertaking continue operations. Diversitat broadcasting and to produce high the onerous task of re-establishing recognised that 94.7 The Pulse quality community radio for the itself as an important component provided an important service to people of this region. We look in the fabric of the Geelong the community, particularly those forward to the opportunity to community. ethnic communities that were able continue to make a contribution to to broadcast programs in their own the development of the regional Diversitat, formerly known as the languages, and are committed to community and to hosting the 2005 Geelong Ethnic Communities securing the long term future of the NEMBC conference. Council (GECC) was established station. in 1976 to provide a united voice Jason Beveridge for, and advocate on behalf of, “94.7 The Pulse” is of vital Station Manager ethnic groups and the general importance to the people of

3zzz Melbourne’s Ethnic Community Radio Station The last weekend of November will be reinforced with the The 19 years which 3ZZZ has been sees the NEMBC 2005 conference focusing on it’s theme operating under its present name Conference hosted for the first of ‘Empowering & Connecting has seen many changes in ethnic time in a Regional venue. Two Communities’. broadcasting with our Victorian Ethnic stations will co- broadcasting extending to over 65 host this year’s conference, 3ZZZ, For 3ZZZ with a year planned to languages and 100 communities. Australia’s oldest and largest celebrate 30 years of Ethnic Whether refugee, long established, community ethnic broadcaster and Broadcasting and expanding the large or small every community we Pulse, Geelong’s new kid on the role of new and emerging work with has its own individual block. communities and youth in its characteristics which need to be broadcasting the 2005 Conference recognised, nurtured and Although this isn’t the first and its theme couldn’t be more respected. Older communities conference which 3ZZZ has appropriate. The changing face of need to work with new ones, older hosted it is the most exciting with our audience, the apparent rise in broadcasters with the young, the opportunity to work with Pulse attacks on multiculturalism and the religions to foster tolerance and and to take the NEMBC into one of ideals of tolerance and acceptance radio stations to provide high Australia’s most vibrant of diverse races and faiths which quality relevant programming. I multicultural regional has made modern Australia such believe sharing and learning communities. Geelong has long an exciting nation are just a small through the 2005 NEMBC relied on a diverse multicultural number of the challenges which Conference will foster these population to work in its factories confront us. I have no doubt that ideals. particularly Ford and this has the conference will go a long way become more varied with the towards opening these and other Martin Wright OAM arrival of refugees and new and challenges to scrutiny and Station Manager emerging communities. The discussion, we can all learn from importance of these people to one another what ever our station local and Australian communities size or age.

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Radio 4EB. Six years later, he found myself possessing a variety of skills, youth experiences and roles in radio broadcasting and also learnt a great deal about his own culture and the culture of report many other ethnic groups. In 2002, he was co-opted into the Board of 8 Directors at Radio 4EB FM as a youth ALL THINGS NEW FOR NEMBC YOUTH representative and in 2003, was elected to be a Board Director by the members of The previous few months have seen all the Station. In 2004, he became the things new for the NEMBC Youth convenor of the Chinese group and the Committee. President of the Chinese Ethnic In their May meeting this year, the NEMBC Broadcasting Association of Queensland. Youth Committee voted and appointed a Adam is looking forward to the experience new chairperson. of joining the NEMBC Youth Committee, and said “I look forward to the many Anthony Colombo, who has been the NSW challenges and fun times ahead as a Rep for NEMBC Youth committee since Youth Committee member of the NEMBC. 2001, was voted as the new Chair. He has I definitely look forward to meeting up with been a part of the team at Radio 2000FM some of the members of the Youth since 1999 where he is involved in a Committee in which I have met in previous weekly Italian youth program as well as a years. It will also be awesome to work weekly multicultural show. Over the years, with Zulejha, our youth coordinator. To Anthony has been involved in many youth sum up, it is going to be great!” organisations and projects with which he brings a variety of skills and experience to The NEMBC youth committee has this position. currently been working hard in recent years to increase and maintain The position of chair allows membership to youth involvement in ethnic community the NEMBC executive committee and on broadcasting. receiving and accepting the position, Anthony said “I look forward to this position They are currently involved in several and becoming an active member of the projects, including a Multicultural Youth NEMBC Executive and making a valuable Compilation CD titled ‘Culture Shock’. The contribution on behalf of ethnic youth and Culture Shock project is well under way ethnic community broadcasters in again with the project being re-launched in general”. early August with plans to launch the completed CD compilation later this year. “I look forward to making a valuable contribution on behalf of ethnic youth Another successful project that the Youth Committee have been involved in is ‘Plug and ethnic community broadcasters in In’. Plug In has been successful in WA general.” Anthony Colombo, NSW and VIC, and another event is currently being planned to be held early 2006 in The NEMBC Youth Committee would also Hobart, Tasmania with seed funding like to welcome Adam Lo to the team. having been secured by the Hobart City Adam joins us from 4EB, Brisbane and Council. has been in the scene of ethnic community radio for six years. He started out as a For further information on any of the above humble broadcaster with limited mentioned projects or to get in contact broadcasting experience on a Cantonese with Anthony Colombo regarding future youth program entitled “Durian Club” in projects or ideas you would like to share, contact [email protected]

2222 - The- The Ethnic Ethnic Broadcaster Broadcaster, Winter, Spring 2004 2005 3CR, Express Media and the NEMBC – a successful partnership for young people!

In 2003, 3CR and Express Media, along with Media put Esther in an excellent position to Workplace Learning Initiatives, approached see through the project and utilise her CALD the NEMBC with a project idea to provide CCD skills. literacy and multimedia training to young culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) Participants were sourced via 3CR, NEMBC people from emerging communities. The and Express Media’s networks, with the help NEMBC’s DIMIA-funded new and emerging of council workers and Migrant Resource communities project had provided an Centres. Six women and four men in the age important focus and model for scoping such range 15 – 28 registered for the web a project. Funding was received from the component, from the following communities: Myer Foundation and necessitated a scaling Afghani, Eritrean, Iranian, Khmer, Lebanese, down of the original scope of the project, Mangalore and Sudanese. leaving Express Media and 3CR in a partnership to provide media and Given the group’s above average literacy and communication skills development general interest in using the web to support workshops. and promote their communities, on the first day of training the schedule was adapted to NEMBC’s emerging communities project was accommodate needs and expectations. The discontinued mid-2004, and with staffing four workshops presented were: changes at the NEMBC and at Express Media, the workshops were finally delivered CALD Communities and the Internet early this year, after a couple of months of Introduction to Dreamweaver planning and promotion. Community Resource development Online Community Building Aim of the project The aim of the project was to train young The progression was from a general people who were from culturally diverse introduction to the internet, towards using the backgrounds and who had an interest in web to achieve community needs, with a media and being involved in their own cultural continuing software training focus. Group communities, in radio and web skills. training was balanced with individual attention for those with less developed web and At the end of the project the participants were software literacy skills. encouraged to propose radio shows at either Group working was facilitated by the inclusion 3CR or other community radio stations and to amongst the group of a young woman from set up websites. the Islamic Women’s Welfare Council of Victoria, whose website was undergoing major Express Media web workshops: transformations and for whom a structured Connecting CALD Youth approach to community needs was required. Four thorough workshops were presented by This gave the group a very useful test case, Express Media across two weeks, with a allowing for productive discussion and creative schedule designed to complement the 3CR problem-solving in the areas of training schedule. Esther Anatolitis who is the – gathering and compiling data in a range of General Manager of Express Media delivered formats from community members the training. Esther holds the Certificate IV in – working with the community to create a Assessment and Workplace Training, and is website brief a former manager of the Australian Ethnic – structuring site content, with an emphasis Radio Training Project (AERTP), the ethnic on accessibility, navigation, text vs images, community radio Registered Training and end user needs Organisation housed by the NEMBC. The – negotiating any technical language needs serendipitous move from NEMBC to Express e.g. those contexts in which bilingual content

TheThe Ethnic Ethnic Broadcaster Broadcaster,, Spring Winter 20052004 - 23 is necessary; the practicalities of displaying a MIDNIGHT MADNESS non-Western character set – negotiating cultural difference and IN SYDNEY intergenerational issues as they affect technology access and uptake – is the web the right During Youth Week in 2004 the annual medium, what current practices will it slot into, Tony Manicaros award helped give birth etc. to what is now a regular weekly program called Midnight Madness. Radio Training Midnight Madness is a Multicultural 3CR trained nine young people in the radio youth program on Sydney’s 2000 FM component of the project. The group of and airs weekly on a Friday evening at participants were from African and Middle Eastern 11pm. backgrounds. There was a good balance of gender and age range (from 16 to 28 years). The program was started by 3 young Priority was given to younger applicants. Half of men in March 2004 and has grown the students were of refugee backgrounds and from week to week establishing a half were first generation Australians. Three of the regular audience in a short period of students were part of the Centre for Multicultural time. Youth Issues. The program also gives other young people the opportunity to get involved in Students spent four full days at the station radio. engaged in formal radio production with two radio trainers with CALD backgrounds. Modules The key to the show’s success is a mix included between the humour, wackiness, Interviewing experience and knowledge of the Program Planning show’s three presenters: Mr.C, Rob Media Skills and Stef G, who, collectively strive to Studio Panelling create a show like no other. Digital Editing and Producing Over the airwaves you can hear how The students also spent individual time at the they connect as team and with their station after formal training to practice their skills. audience. This is a main contributing factor in the program’s popularity. Two extra trainers were engaged to mentor them as they finished their audio pieces. A timeslot was Midnight Madness plays popular top 40 scheduled for student’s to air their small audio music and listeners requests. It also segments. showcases music from different countries and talk back from young Outcomes of the Radio Training listeners where, important and, well not A number of the students became involved in 3CR so important issues of the week are radio programs, namely 3al Hawa, the Arabic discussed. youth show. Many of the students however felt that they were unable to become immediately involved Midnight Madness has just celebrated in radio due to their study commitments – all of the being on air for a year and it continues students were engaged in tertiary or secondary to grow. If you would like further information on the show, you can study. However, enthusiasm showed that more of them will probably become involved in radio when contact [email protected]. their study is over. The project worker from CMYI’s Multicultural Youth Group has informed 3CR that many students are now interested in learning video skills.Networking-wise the project was of great success for the students. The group gelled very well socially and the student’s displayed a very collaborative approach to their work. All of the participants were enthusiastic about the radio training and maintained good attendance records.All of the

24 - TheThe EthnicEthnic BroadcasterBroadcaster, ,Winter Spring 2004 2005 A Breath of Fresh Air: we’ve begun we’ve learnt so much technically, about presenting and how to Salam Café Brings a make the content snappy.” Young Muslim Voice Providing access to Victoria’s diverse community groups under-represented by to Television the commercial media is C31’s forte. Salam Café instantly appealed because it From a garage in Melbourne’s outer gave young Muslims from a variety of suburbs, with a lighting system bought from different cultural backgrounds a medium to Bunnings and a collection of home videos, publicly discuss their faith, simultaneously Australian community television’s premier educating viewers about their lives and cultural program Salam Café was born. culture. Salam Café is a panel based program now This is why C31 Programming Manager, in its second season on C31 Melbourne, Carly O’Donovan says it was so important featuring a group of mates who use informal to nurture the show. chat, humour and informative studio guests to tackle head on the myths and “The content was unlike anything that had misconceptions about the Muslim faith. been presented to C31 before, or in fact ever seen on commercial television in Awarded best Cultural and Linguistically Australia,” she says, “When we saw the Diverse Program and Best Faith Based show we knew we had to get them on Program at this year’s Antenna Awards, board, and gave them as much assistance Salam Café Producer Ahmed Hassan says as possible. We began by offering a slot it is the only show on television that gives in prime time, to expose the show to a Australians a true insight into Islam. greater audience. We also encouraged Salam to develop a “The Muslims represented partnership with RMITV, one on television are nothing like “Salam Café is a perfect of our community access the Muslims I’ve known, 99% example of the groups. RMITV have shown of publicity about Muslims in difference fantastic support of the the media emanates from community television program, by providing the communities worst 1%,” can make to society.” Salam Café with training he says. and access to their studio.” Enter the voice of reason in today’s politically O’Donovan says, “Salam Café is a perfect charged environment, Salam Café, when example of the difference community after a particularly uninspiring evening of television can make to society.” board games, Hassan hatched the idea with co-hosts Waleed Aly and Susan Carland. Hassan acknowledges the support of community television with fervour, “We’re A few other friends, or rather “show ponies” basically a group of young people without joined in along the way and off into the any media experience. Without C31 we garage they went to film what began as an couldn’t have put this message out. We experimental series called Ramadan TV, would have been sitting at home spewing similar in format to the show we know today. about the unfair betrayal of our community.” Recognising the potential of the program, its And the accolades for this group of young young cast and crew, and noting the lack of professionals and students have come in studio, C31 encouraged Hassan to join by the truck load, nominated for three RMITV to help develop the program, which Antenna Awards and winning two. now acts as Melbourne’s only real window into the mainstream Muslim community. “It was great, so exciting. It’s validation for the show.” As is the fan mail that floods in “C31 was an immense support, putting us from the young and old, Muslim or onto RMITV who were able to provide the otherwise, all able to enjoy what one fan facilities, equipment and expertise to get the describes in an email to Hassan as “a show to the next level,” Hassan says, “since breath of fresh air”.

The Ethnic Broadcaster, Winter 2005 - 25 >>>new & emerging communities

“it is pertinent that all ethnic stations and community broadcasters make an attempt to identify NEC members within their local area BY TANGI STEEN and introduce them to community radio as a means of establishing an information service provider for their own community.”

NEMBC’S NEW & EMERGING COMMUNITIES COMMITTEE

The NEC sub-committee been conducted through which the committee should was formed by NEMBC email. focus their attention on. How when it was evident that as a successful we will become national body, it is one of our What is meant by ‘new and depend on each station’s roles to welcome and emerging community’? The willingness to publicly promote encourage new and NEMBC website states that their work, with a special focus emerging communities to NEC refers to ‘any ethnic on NEC in their state. Here are establish and use radio as community [including refugee the goals and outcomes of the one of many means of groups] that has experienced a sub-committee. information dissemination for significant percentage their own community. The increase in the number of Goals: members of the sub- people arriving in Australia in the · To assist NEC committee are Judith Ventic past 15 years’. The website members to develop (NT, Filipino), ‘Osai Faiva also provides a list of 69 programs and receive (NSW, Tongan), and Tangi countries as members of NEC, airtime on community Steen (SA, Tongan). Though including Tonga of course, radio the committee members are hence the reason I am a · To ensure that NEC currently dominated by member of this committee! members are Tongans (not by choice receiving adequate though but by the need to get I would also like to take this support and training to this sub-committee opportunity to acknowledge the enable them to established), NEC’s primary work that Ms Indera Narayan produce quality objective is to inform did in her Victoria-based community radio NEMBC of initiatives it needs Emerging Communities programs to undertake in order to project, as some of the issues · To assist NEC achieve positive outcomes she raised provide the impetus members residing in for new and emerging for NEMBC to formally elect a rural and regional communities. The sub- sub-committee to oversee areas to receive committee has not formally further development in this airtime and produce met face to face (we will be area. Through Indera’s work, a programs in their own soonish), though some set of goals and outcomes language preliminary discussions have were established, a basis upon · To empower NEC

26 - The Ethnic Broadcaster, WinterSpring 20052005 members to become groups classified as website for more information active participants of NEC members for the about NEC members and the Australian society NEMBC website. hopefully an update from the · To update NEMBC’s current committee. Further, list of NEC members To achieve the above goals and could I just say that a good on an annual basis subsequently the outcomes, it place to start your radio · To report where is pertinent that all ethnic station’s thinking about NEC necessary from time stations and community members in your area is to to time to NEMBC the broadcasters make an attempt identify the barriers which may activities and status of to identify NEC members within prevent them from getting the committee their local area and introduce involved in broadcasting, and Outcomes: them to community radio as a turning those into · Increase the number means of establishing an opportunities? For example, of NEC members information service provider for one barrier may be the lack of radio programs their own community. The resources to pay for airtime. nationally through example set by 6EBA in Perth Through your station’s state, working locally and is a case in point. 6EBA opens local governments’ network and getting to know your its door to NEC women and related migrant settlement local NEC members young people (particularly agencies, perhaps you could · Ensure that NEC Sudanese and Pacific help by securing a sponsor for members are well Islanders – my mob) to this group, until such time that resourced and receive experiment with radio the group itself is established adequate broadcasting, with a view to set and can resource their own broadcasting training up a radio program, preferably program. Wouldn’t this be a to run and produce on a long term basis, to provide fantastic achievement for your quality programs on relevant information for their station? One of the NECK’s ethnic community own community. 5EBI in roles is to connect the head and radio. In doing so: Adelaide has been successful the rest of the body. By thinking o Ensure that as well in establishing radio strategically, you (as station NEC members programs with new and managers and community receive emerging communities in the broadcasters) can turn a updated news last 10 years, including the barrier into a wealth of and Indonesians, Cook Islanders, opportunity and experiences, information Samoans, and Tongans by creating a link not only through ethnic amongst others. It is my hope between your station’s existing community that when NEC members members and NEC members, radio stations assume the responsibility of but also between NEC o Ensure that broadcasting in one’s own members, their homeland, special language, this will not only Australia-wide and globally. broadcasting empower them, but will needs of NEC heighten their community’s As for the NEC committee, we members sense of belonging, increase would like to hear stories about residing in their level of cultural interaction your station’s success or rural and with other groups as well as attempts being offered to NEC regional areas their visibility within their local members in your area. We are addressed community. When a would also like to welcome any appropriately community feels this way, I suggestions of projects to · Encourage presume that their sense of improve our services to NEC participation of NEC well being as a group may also members. members in the improve significantly. Any suggestions or feedback about this article please email Australian society [email protected]]Tangi would · Update the list of Please visit the NEMBC like to receive any suggestions

The Ethnic Broadcaster, Spring 2005 - 27 >>>women

In order for the Women’s Committee to strategically plan for some future projects, we need to find out more about your broadcasting needs. The data collected will be used only by NEMBC to find ways of improving the conditions for women broadcasters of all ages.

For Women Broadcasters Only When completing the survey, please either: 1. Give to your NEMBC state representative or your station manager; or 2. Post to NEMBC P.O. Box 1144, Collingwood VIC 3066; or 3. Download a form from www.nembc.org.au and email completed survey to: [email protected] Many thanks in advance. Tangi Steen (member of the Women’s Committee)

1. Please provide the following information: Indicate your age group: O Under 20 O 20-30 O 30-40 O 40-50 O Over 50

Your language group:

Your station (optional):

Estimated hours/week of radio work:

2. What is your actual role in broadcasting? (E.g. presenter, driver, music or combination of roles)

3. Do you have any support for your role? If so, what are these?

4. Could you please list the resources that you use to prepare for your broadcasting role? (E.g. as a news presenter, you may list things like newspaper from home, internet, video etc) a. b. c. d.

5. How do you pay for the above resources? (E.g. out of own pocket, or perhaps you have some financial support from your radio committee, sponsors, etc)

6. As a woman broadcaster, what would be in your wish list of things (in order of priority, a being the most important) you need to have in order for you to perform your radio role much more satisfactorily? a. b. c. d.

Thank you. We hope that in the very near future, we would be able to improve your broadcasting needs.

28 - The Ethnic Broadcaster, Spring 2005 Reporting Suicide and Mental Illness Resources for people working in the media

The media has an important substantial evidence that metropolitan and regional role to play in influencing trauma and loss may have areas across Australia, social attitudes towards and profound and ongoing effects including news and health perceptions of suicide and on people who migrate to reporters, editors, station mental illness. In Australia, Australia as refugees. managers and producers. over 2000 people die by The resource includes a suicide each year, and 1 in 5 Many program managers and compact graphically designed people will be affected by presenters have said that reference book, quick mental illness in any 12- they are unsure of how to reference cards for both month period. As such, it is approach this type of delicate suicide and mental illness, a probably not surprising that a community discussion in CD-ROM resource fronted by recent study by Pirkis & ways that will improve George Negus and a website Blood (2001) found that knowledge and understanding at www.mindframe-media.info items relating to suicide or without placing members of where all the resource mental illness were the community at greater risk. material can be accessed widespread in the Australian As such, the National online. The project team has media. Most media report Mindframe Initiative has recently added a new section suicide and mental illness developed a suite of to the website on multicultural responsibly, however further resources which provides mental health which provides progress can be made. practical advice and information on the risk of information to support the suicide and mental health Community radio provides a work of media professionals problems for migrants and good platform for discussion when reporting on these refugees. It also provides about mental health issues, issues. The resource relevant contacts across especially for particular Reporting suicide and mental Australia specialising in sections of our community illness includes current multicultural mental health. including migrants and contacts, research sources, refugees. In fact, the media facts and statistics, and The project team has recently may be the only source of suggestions about issues to engaged with the NEMBC to information about these consider when reporting discuss ways to promote issues for many members in suicide and mental illness. these resources with the our community. This is The resource was developed ethnic and multicultural important given that over a with the assistance of media broadcasting sector and to quarter of a million first professionals, suicide and discuss possible future work generation adult Australians mental health experts, and in the area. The project team from culturally and consumer organisations. would like to encourage any linguistically diverse feedback that the sector may backgrounds are estimated provide on the resources or Copies of Reporting suicide to experience some form of and mental illness have been the issues more broadly. mental disorder in a 12- sent to media professionals in month period and there is

The Ethnic Broadcaster, Spring 2005 - 29 Misuse of funds? “When funding is given to people who are not entitled to it, this effectively robs genuine ethnic broadcasters of some of their funding.”

The NEMBC has been concerned that the hourly approximate duration in minutes given to rate of funding support for ethnic broadcasters has music and to various categories of spoken been steadily declining. word information including news and community information. We are concerned There are a number of reasons for this. One factor that some stations may be providing false has been the growth of ethnic broadcasting. In information on this form, and may be many ways this has been a good thing, but one of indicating that the program contains more the downsides is that as more programs are than 50% spoken word when in fact the broadcast the available funds get spread more thinly. program is 80 or 90 per cent music. The NEMBC would regard the acceptance of The NEMBC welcomes new program groups, and funding based on deliberately false especially programs for young people and for new information very seriously. and refugee communities. However it has come to our attention that some established groups are > In order to receive funding an ethnic claiming, and being given, money that they are not program must be responsible to a entitled to. When funding is given to people who are recognised (and preferably incorporated) not entitled to it, this effectively robs genuine ethnic ethnic community organisation in the broadcasters of some of their funding. broadcast area, or by a group within the ethnic community which is responsive to Misuse the needs of that community. > Funded programs must be locally The NEMBC is concerned that cheating, or other produced. misuse of funding might become > Funded programs should provide widespread.Funding for ethnic broadcasting is settlement information, news, information provided by the federal government, and and/or cultural maintenance. administered by the Community Broadcasting > The station must show that it has Foundation. The CBF has limited resources, and at reached agreement with its ethnic times can find it difficult to check every detail of broadcasters as to how the funds are to be funding applications. spent. > Consultative meetings must be held at NEMBC President George Zangalis met recently leat twice a year. Minutes of those with CBF President John Martin to discuss these meetings must be kept, and made available issues. It was agreed that the CBF guidleines need to the CBF on request. to be enforced, and that the two organisations would work more closely together to see that this happed. The NEMBC is concerned that in some cases stations have received funding despite the fact that The NEMBC has therefore decided to take a more the station and its broadcasters have not reached pro-active role in pursuing situations where it agreement as to how the money is to be spent. appears that funding has been received in breach of We are also concerned that in some cases stations the CBF funding guidelines. In particular we will be have not made the minutes available to the ethnic looking at breaches of the following guidelines. broadcasters, and that the ethnic broadcasters have not signed the minutes, nor have they agreed that · Funded programs must contain at least the minutes are an accurate record of the meeting. 50% spoken word. Stations are required to If this is the case, we urge ethnic broadcasters to indicate, on the CBF’s Form E3, the contact the NEMBC.

30 - The Ethnic Broadcaster, Spring 2005 CBF News

CHANGES TO ETHNIC station. (An increase from 1 to projects including the PROGRAM GRANT 2 hours per week). Qualitative Audience GUIDELINES Research Project and The Foundation has changed the Multicultural Youth Program National Community eligible hours requirements for A maximum of one hour per week Broadcasting Training Fund Ethnic Program grants following per station may be funded. (No · resources for those consultation with the NEMBC. change). interested in Australian community broadcasting, Ethnic Program funding is based The Ethnic Grants Advisory sector research or sector on the number of hours of Ethnic Committee and the NEMBC will funding trends programs you broadcast. But it continue to discuss how CBF · improved feedback facility - also depends on what kind of Ethnic grant guidelines can best send us your comments station you are. The different serve Ethnic broadcasters and using the feedback form types of stations and the their audiences. numbers of eligible hours are The CBF Update has also been listed below: For more information see the revamped and is now available in CBF website at: HTML or plain text formats. · Full-time Ethnic community http://www.cbf.com.au or contact CBF Update is the CBF’s stations can apply Barbara Baxter, Grants monthly email newsletter. It for up to 9 hours of funding for Administrator on (03) 9419 8055 contains up-to-date information each different language or email: [email protected] about the CBF’s activities broadcast per week. (A including grant opportunities. reduction from 10 to 9 hours REVIEW OF FUNDED ETHNIC Current and archived issues are per week). PROGRAMS also available on the CBF The Foundation has received a website. · City-based general complaint stating that a station’s community stations (where funded ethnic programs no longer Subscribe to the CBF Update on there is a full-time Ethnic complied with the ethnic grant the CBF website: community station also in that guidelines. The station http://www.cbf.com.au city) can apply for up to 3 hours concerned was asked to provide of funding for each different the copies of its logging tapes for CBF GRANT OPPORTUNITIES language program broadcast per all funded ethnic programs over a The CBF Key Dates page on our week. (An increase from 2 to 3 specified period and a complete website outlines the closing hours per week). review of each program has been dates of all CBF grants - undertaken. Stations are http://www.cbf.com.au · Rural or city general reminded that they must ensure community stations (with that all funded ethnic programs For more information on CBF no full-time Ethnic station in that meet the Ethnic grant guidelines grants see the CBF website or area) can apply for up to 5 hours for the entire period for which contact a CBF Grants of funding for each different they receive CBF funding Administrator on (03) 9419 8055. language program broadcast per support. week. (No change). CURRENT CBF GRANT NEW CBF WEBSITE & CBF OPPORTUNITIES · Temporary Community UPDATE Broadcast Licensees The new CBF website was Grant Category (TCBL’s) can apply for up to 2 recently launched with some Due Date hours of funding for each different great new features including: language program broadcast per · improved accessibility CAN Infrastructure grants week. (No change). · CBF grant search facility Anytime · resources for those applying Ethnic Youth Program for the first time or needing Satellite Reception Equipment A maximum of two hours per help in preparing their grants language per week may be application Anytime funded no matter what kind of · information on CBF funded

The Ethnic Broadcaster, Spring 2005 - 31 NEMBC Annual Conference 25 - 27 Novmber, 2005 Mercure Hotel, Geelong, Victoria More information on Pg. 18-21

NEMBC Executive President: George Zangalis, VIC Vice-President: Victor Marillanca, ACT Treasurer: Peter Ho, QLD Secretary: Naim Saifullah, ACT Members: Brenda Degenhart, SA Osai Faiva, NSW Estela Fuentes, SA Danijela Ivkovic, TAS Ramkumar Konesparamoorthy, NT Nikola Nikolich, WA Marisol Salinas, VIC Tangi Steen, SA Judith Ventic, NT NEMBC Staff Executive/Policy Officer: Darce Cassidy - [email protected] Administration Officer/Youth Coordinator: Zulejha Kliko – [email protected] Bookkeeper: Denis West

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