annual report 1996–97 Australian BroadcastingCorporation one

ABC charter

The functions and duties which Parliament contents has given to the ABC are set out in the Charter of the Corporation (ss6(1) and (2) of Corporate Profile the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983). ABC Charter inside cover 6(1) The functions of the Corporation are — One ABC 1 (a) to provide within Australia innovative and comprehensive Significant events 2 broadcasting services of a high standard as part of the ABC Services 4 Australian broadcasting system consisting of national, commercial and community sectors and, without limiting the Financial Summary 5 generality of the foregoing, to provide— ABC Board Members 7 (i) broadcasting programs that contribute to a sense of One ABC Structure 8 national identity and inform and entertain, and reflect the cultural diversity of, the Australian community; and Executive Members 9 (ii) broadcasting programs of an educational nature; Statement by Directors 10 (b) to transmit to countries outside Australia broadcasting Review of Operations 15 programs of news, current affairs, entertainment and cultural enrichment that will— News and Current Affairs 15 (i) encourage awareness of Australia and an international Regional Services 18 understanding of Australian attitudes on world affairs; and Feature (ii) enable Australian citizens living or travelling outside Radio and Television Audiences 24 Australia to obtain information about Australian affairs and National Networks 27 Australian attitudes on world affairs; and Program Production 44 (c) to encourage and promote the musical, dramatic and other performing arts in Australia. Enterprises 46 6(2) In the provision by the Corporation of its broadcasting Concerts 49 services within Australia — Human resources 54 (a) the Corporation shall take account of— Finance & business (i) the broadcasting services provided by the commercial and services 58 community sectors of the Australian broadcasting system; Technology strategy & (ii) the standards from time to time determined by the development 62 Australian Broadcasting Authority in respect of broadcasting services; Corporate Management 65 (iii) the responsibility of the Corporation as the provider of Financial Statements 73 an independent national broadcasting service to provide a balance between broadcasting programs of wide appeal and Program Performance specialised broadcasting programs; Statement 99 (iv)the multicultural character of the Australian community; Appendices 100 and (v) in connection with the provision of broadcasting programs of an educational nature — the responsibilities of This Annual Report is available on the the States in relation to education; and World Wide Web, follow the About ABC (b) the Corporation shall take all such measures, being measures link on ABC Online (www.abc.net.au) consistent with the obligations of the Corporation under paragraph (a), as, in the opinion of the Board, will be conducive to the full development by the Corporation of suitable broadcasting programs. This year the ABC Board and management embarked on a far reaching review of activities, culminating in major initiatives to restructure the Corporation and further improve its efficiency and effectiveness. Together these initiatives will help to ensure that the ABC retains a position of national creative leadership.

The national public broadcaster operates in a fast-changing media environment, characterised by rapid expansion in the number of available channels, an increasing volume of foreign programming and a trend to the concentration of media ownership.

In the emerging environment, the ABC remains vital to media diversity in Australia.

The ABC’s new organisation structure, referred to as One ABC, allows the Corporation to focus its energies more clearly on what it does best – the making and delivery of quality program content for use across the electronic media – radio, television and online.

Significantly, the ABC has boosted its commitment to localism by creating the Regional Services portfolio to serve the needs of local audiences throughout metropolitan, regional and rural Australia. And it is in the ABC process of streamlining and restructuring strategic and business support functions to ensure they meet the highest standards of efficiency, cost- effectiveness and quality of service.

The ABC has more clearly differentiated its role as a producer and broadcaster from that of operating symphony orchestras. Agreement with the Federal and State Governments was reached to begin a phased process of corporatisation of five ABC symphony orchestras. The sixth orchestra, the Sydney Symphony, had been incorporated as an ABC subsidiary in February 1996.

During 1996–97, the Corporation prepared to restructure the ownership of Australia Television and its assets, in line with a Government announcement in July.

The Government also announced it would reduce its financial commitment to public broadcasting and sought independent advice on the Corporation – the Review of the Role and Functions of the ABC by Mr Bob Mansfield.

When Mr Mansfield presented his report in January, he re-affirmed the importance of the ABC in the evolving multi-channel environment:

‘There is little evidence that the market will provide the breadth and mix of services offered by the ABC on a national basis.’ one 1 July 1996 • Donald McDonald AO appointed ABC Chairman. • Announcement by Senator the Hon Richard Alston, Minister for Communications and the Arts, of a $11m cut to ABC base funding in 1996–97 and a further $55m pa cut for the triennium starting 1997–98. • Government announces a Review of the Role and Functions of the ABC to be conducted by Mr Bob Mansfield. • Thirtieth anniversary of Playschool. • ABC Online service voted ‘Best Australian Website’ at AusWeb ’96. • Death of Alan McGilvray, the voice of cricket.

August • Coverage of Atlanta Olympics by ABC Radio networks and Paralympic Games on television and radio. • Thirty-fifth anniversary of Four Corners, Australia’s longest running Current Affairs program. • Relaunch of ABC Online marking its first twelve months of operation. events • Morning news program First Edition ceases production due to budget cuts. September • Adelaide Symphony Orchestra undertakes its first international tour to Hong Kong, China, Korea and Singapore. • ABC Board announces radio programming cuts to take effect from January 1997. • Managing Director announces new structure bringing together Radio and Television News and Current Affairs within a single portfolio. October • Barbara Scott from western NSW, named Rural Woman of the Year. • Sydney Symphony Orchestra tours Japan and significant Taiwan. • 100 000 attend ABC open day at the Sydney Cricket Ground. • ABC makes formal submission to the Mansfield Review.

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November March • Federal Government announces funding of • Parliamentary and News Network is extended the ABC Science Development Project for a to Darwin – NewsRadio is now heard in all range of science broadcasting and online capital cities and Newcastle. activities. • Inaugural Andrew Olle Scholarship, to nurture • The 1996 Boyer Lecture Series, The View From young journalistic talent within the ABC, The Bridge: Aspects of Culture, by Pierre awarded to Bronwyn Adcock from Radio Ryckmans, is broadcast on Radio National. Current Affairs. • Radio Australia temporarily expands Tok Pisin December broadcasts due to crisis in Papua New Guinea. • Board announcement of new One ABC • Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performs with structure, replacing media-based divisions the Three Tenors in their only Australian with National Networks, Regional Services, concert. News and Current Affairs, Program Production and three support portfolios. April • ABC and Cultural Ministers Council reach • The first ABC Science Week includes diverse agreement on major restructuring of the ABC science programming on ABC radio, television orchestral network, including formation of and online networks. Symphony Australia. • Stage Two of Triple J’s regional expansion May project is completed. • 1997 Federal Budget provides some relief • Final episode of G.P. after its eighth season from funding cuts announced in July. on ABC Television • ABC confirms that Federal Budget means staffing will need to be reduced by a further January 1997 700 positions in 1997–98. • The report of the review of the ABC by Mr • Announcement of changes to Television Mansfield, The challenge of a better ABC, is programming resulting from 1996–97 budget released. cuts. • ABC Contemporary Music awarded ten Golden • Cessation of Radio Australia’s Thai Guitars at the Country Music Awards. rebroadcasts due to budget cuts. • New radio line-ups include eight new Radio • Report of the Senate Inquiry into the Role National programs and a new line-up on and Future of Radio Australia and Australia Metropolitan Stations. Television released, recommending Australia Television not be sold and Radio Australia’s February operations continue. • Broadcast of Frontier, a ABC Television documentary series with a companion double June CD-Rom and a website which included • Final broadcasts of Radio Australia’s French moderated live forums. and Cantonese services and closure of Cox • Swoon II debuts at Number One on the ARIA Peninsula transmitter facilities due to budget Classical Chart. cuts. • ABC makes formal submission to Senate • Fiftieth anniversary of independent ABC news Committee on amendments to service. Telecommunications Bill.

96–973 servicesabc

National Networks Regional Services • Metropolitan Radio stations in nine cities. Television • Regional Radio with 39 regional stations Australia’s national television service carried and 10 smaller studio facilities. on over 600 transmitters, and the leading producer of drama, documentaries, children’s • Television production and transmission and education programs. centres in all State capitals, Canberra and Darwin. Radio • Radio National, a specialist spoken word News and Current Affairs network. • Australia’s most authoritative and • ABC Classic FM, a network devoted to independent television, radio and online classical music and performance. news. • Triple J, an FM youth network featuring • Leading current affairs programs on Radio new, especially Australian, music. and Television including AM, PM, 7.30 Report, Lateline, and Four Corners. • ABC NewsRadio on the Parliamentary and News Network, a continuous news and • Separate 7.00pm Television news bulletins current affairs service, with live broadcasts produced in each State and the Northern of both Houses of Federal Parliament when Territory. sitting. • More than 450 local, regional, State and national news bulletins on radio every day. Multimedia • Australia’s most extensive network of • ABC Online, a dynamic Internet service. overseas correspondents. • Development of CD–Roms and other interactive media. Concerts • Six symphony orchestras employing around International Services 450 musicians and providing more than • Radio Australia, an international radio 700 performances a year to over a million service broadcasting by short wave and people, along with radio and television satellite, in English and five other audiences. languages, to Asia and the Pacific. • Australia Television, the international Enterprises television service available to over 30 • 26 ABC Shops, 96 ABC Centres and a mail countries and territories in Asia and the and telephone order service. Pacific*. • Production of books, classical and contemporary recordings, audio cassettes, videos, multimedia and licensed products, and music and magazine publishing.

The ABC reached agreement to transfer Australia Television to the Seven Network effective from 1 August 1997. The ABC will continue to provide news and other programming to Australia Television.

4 corporate profile summaryfinancial

Financial Outcome 1996–97 In August 1996 the Government announced a $10.8 million (two per cent) permanent reduction in the ABC’s 1996–97 base funding. The One ABC structure aproved by the Board in December 1996 enabled a number of reshaping initiatives to be implemented which contributed towards operating efficiency savings in 1996–97. Notwithstanding its severely constrained budgt position, the ABC maintained liquidity throughout the financial year and operated within the limlits of its total sources of funds and parliamentary appropriation. Financial Outlook 1997–98 Effective 1 July 1997 the Government applied a further permanent reduction of $55 million to the ABC funding base. The process of reshaping and cost reduction will continue in 1997–98 and beyond. It is expected that a number of reforms in the management of procurement, human resources, marketing and payroll will result in savings of some $8 million per annum beginning in 1997–98 — part of the total of $28 million in savings to be achieved by decisions flowing from the One ABC restructure.

Operating revenue Operating expenses Revenue from independent sources

Revenue from Government 74% Interest 3% Sales of goods and services 86%

National Transmission Agency 8% Grants 2% Net gains from disposal of assets 1% Independent Sources 18% Depreciation and Amortisation 4% Interest 7% Suppliers 44% Other 6% Employee related 46%

5 Five Year Analysis ABC ABC ABC ABC ABC 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 $'000 $'000 $'000 $'000 $'000 OPERATING Cost of Services (a) 707 106 719 807 698 700 688 180 670 943 Operating Revenue 131 777 126 504 122 889 100 959 90 067 Net Cost of Services (b) 575 329 593 303 575 811 587 221 580 876 Revenue from Government (a) 588 112 597 736 587 563 602 220 575 668

FINANCIAL POSITION Current Assets 142 743 149 602 127 361 104 691 127 530 Non-Current Assets 505 071 504 163 475 094 473 902 436 680 Total Assets 647 814 653 765 602 455 578 593 564 210 Current Liabilities 206 381 123 187 96 924 86 122 135 113 Non-Current Liabilities 142 962 236 965 239 088 237 780 187 698 Total Liabilities 349 343 360 152 336 012 323 902 322 811 Total Equity 298 471 293 613 266 443 254 691 241 399

RATIOS Current Ratio (c) 0.69 1.21 1.31 1.22 0.94 Equity (d) 46% 45% 44% 44% 43%

(a) Includes transmission services supplied by National Transmission Agency. (b) Net cost of services is total operating expenses including transmission services, less operating revenue. (c) Current assets divided by current liabilities. (d) Equity as a percentage of total assets.

6 abc board corporate profile Donald McDonald, AO , BCom Appointed Chairman for a five year term on 24 July 1996. Mr McDonald is a Fellow of the Senate of the University of Sydney and Chairman of The Really Useful Company (Aust) Pty Limited. He is a member of the Board of the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, Chairman of the Cultural Commission for the Sydney Olympic Games and Chairman of the State Opera Ring Corporation in From left: Brian Johns, Kirsten Garrett, Donald McDonald, Russell Bate, Wendy Silver, Diana Gribble and John Bannon. Insets: Janine Walker, Ian MacPhee South Australia. Diana Gribble AM Hon. J.C. Bannon BA, LLB Hon. Ian Macphee AO, LLB, MA Appointed Deputy Chair for a Appointed a Director for a five Appointed a Director for a five five year term from 27 June year term from 24 July 1994. year term from 9 December 1995. Mr Bannon is currently 1994. Ms Gribble is a Director of undertaking post-graduate Mr Macphee is a consultant to Text Media Group, a Board research on the Federation of Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Member of Cinema Papers and Australia at Flinders Chairperson of Monash a member of the Advisory University, South Australia. University’s Graduate School Board of the Centre for of Government, a member of Philosophy and Public Issues, Russell Bate the Federal Government’s University of Melbourne. Appointed a Director for a five Advisory Council on year term from 20 December Multicultural Affairs and Brian Johns AO 1995. AusAID’s Advisory Council and Appointed Managing Director Mr Bate is Managing Director on the Board of CARE for a five year term from 17 of Sun Microsystems Australia Australia. March 1995. Pty Ltd and draws on over 20 Wendy Silver BA, B Soc Wk Mr Johns is a Director of Open years of IT experience. Net, a member of the Advisory Appointed a Director for a five Board of the Centre for Kirsten Garrett year term from 1 July 1994. Philosophy and Public Issues, Appointed staff-elected Ms Silver is the Chief University of Melbourne. He is Director on 15 June 1996 for Executive Officer of a Council Member of the a two year term. Relationships Australia (WA) Australian National Gallery, Ms Garrett had been Deputy Janine Walker Grad Dip Bus Board Member of the National staff-elected Director on the Institute of Dramatic Art ABC Board since 1988. She is Appointed a Director for a (NIDA), Council Member of the Executive Producer of three year term from 9 June the United States National Radio National’s Background 1991 and re-appointed for a Academy of Television Arts Briefing, which she joined in three year term from 1 July and Sciences (NATAS), 1988. 1994. Chairman of the Visual Arts Expert Group, AUStrade and a Retiring Members member of the International Mark Armstrong BA,LLM Institute of Communications’ Appointed Chair for a five year Editorial Panel for the Global term from 24 July 1991. He Report Series. retired on 23 July 1996.

7 organisation oneABC structure

Minister for Federal Communications and the Parliament Arts

ABC Board National Advisory Council

Managing ABC Chief of Staff Director Development Janet Clayton Brian Johns General Manager Ian McGarrity

Regional National News and Program Services Networks Current Affairs Production

Head: Head: Head: Head: Sue Howard Andy Lloyd-James Paul Williams Don Reynolds

Target, commission Commission and Gather, analyse, Create and produce and deliver services schedule network package and programs to satisfy to meet local programs to meet present news & schedule as audience needs national audience current affairs to commissioned needs and meet identified interests audience needs across the country

Human Technology Finance & ABC ABC Concerts Resources Strategy and Business Enterprises Development Services Head: Head: Head: General Manager: Director of Music: Jacquie Hutchinson David Sharland (a) Russell Balding Terry Moloney Nathan Waks

Management of Plan and coordinate Manage ABC finance human resources the technical and provide and industrial environment business support reform services

ABC Executive members (a) indicates acting

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ABC executive

Brian Johns AO, Managing in Adelaide and has been a Jacquie Hutchinson, Head Director presenter on Radio National, Human Resources Brian Johns was appointed Classic FM and 3LO. Most Jacquie Hutchinson joined the Managing Director in March recently, she was Manager ABC in 1995 as Federal Head 1995. Regional Radio and 3LO in Television Human Resources. Victoria. Prior to this he was She has extensive experience Chairperson of the Australian Andy Lloyd-James, Head in senior management Broadcasting Authority and National Networks positions in higher education, Managing Director of the public sector unions and Andy Lloyd-James joined the industrial relations Special Broadcasting Service ABC in 1967 and became a from 1987–92and Publishing commissions. In addition she producer and executive has a research and Director of Penquin Books producer in Documentaries and from 1979–87. consultancy background in Features. In the early eighties women’s employment and work Paul Williams, News and he became Head of Television place reform. Current Affairs Features. In 1988 he was appointed Head of Television Russell Balding, Head Finance Paul Williams joined the ABC at SBS and in 1994 he initiated and Business Services in 1968 as a rural radio and became General Manager Russell Balding joined the ABC reporter in Queensland. He of SBS Independent, the went on to produce a number as General Manager Finance in independent commissioning early 1996. Prior to this he of documentaries including A wing of SBS Television. In Big Country and Heartlands and was Finance Director with the 1996 he rejoined the ABC as NSW Roads and Traffic worked as a field producer, the Head of Television Drama. Supervising Producer, and Authority. He has also held Executive Producer for the Don Reynolds, senior finance positions in the Four Corners and Lateline Head Program Production NSW Department of Housing and Department of Health. programs. He was executive Don Reynolds is an experienced producer for the Gold Walkley international film and television David Sharland, Acting Head winning Labour in Power producer and manager. Before Technology Strategy and series. In 1995 he was joining the ABC, he ran his Development appointed Head of Television own production house, News and Current Affairs. David Sharland joined the ABC Tasman, out of London since in 1993. Initially appointed as Sue Howard, Head Regional 1995. Prior to that he worked Head Radio Finance, David was Services with the Grundy Organisation later appointed as General in London and was Head of Sue Howard began working in Manager Radio Technology and Production and Co-production Services. radio in 1980 at Adelaide with Television New Zealand University’s 5UV where she and Chief Executive Officer and He replaced Peter Loxton as was Breakfast presenter for Head of Production for South acting Head when Peter several years. She joined the Pacific Pictures, TVNZ's separate became ill in December. ABC in 1986 as an announcer drama production subsidiary.

Brian Johns Paul Williams Sue Howard Andy Lloyd James Don Reynolds Jacquie Hutchinson Russell Balding David Sharland

9 statement by directors

his has been a year of momentous change for the ABC — change Twhich will reverberate into the next century. Key to the change is an organisational structure which responds to creative and budgetary needs and to the realities of the rapidly changing media environment. During the year, the Corporation underwent an external review of its role and functions (the Mansfield Review), commissioned by the Government. At the same time it had to deal with unexpected ongoing reductions in base funding — $11 million in 1996–97 and $55 million in 1997–98. Following the Government’s funding announcement, the organisational reshaping exercise, which had begun in early 1996, was accelerated. What had been intended as a four year restructure became a 12-to- 18 month exercise and critical elements of the necessary changes had to be in place by the end of the financial year. In the period leading up to the May 1997 Federal Budget, the ABC negotiated the details of a new triennial funding agreement with Government for 1997–2000, achieving some material funding concessions. Through all of this, the Corporation has ‘I was overwhelmed by the response to my call succeeded in laying out a clear and bold agenda confirming the ABC’s role as a for public submissions. The fact that 10 615 comprehensive and creative publicly-funded national broadcaster with a vital part to play individuals, groups and organisations in the future media landscape. The organisation is capitalising on its strengths: chose to put their views in writing indicates news and current affairs, regional or local services and distinctive programming. the strength of feeling many Australians have As part of the new structure, known as One ABC, the divisional walls which separated concerning the value of the ABC. Most radio and television for 13 years have been dismantled. The strength and competitive advantage of the ABC’s geographic spread has private companies would envy been recognised through the creation of the new portfolio of Regional Services. Other new the passion and loyalty which program-oriented portfolios are National Networks, News and Current Affairs, and characterises the relationship of the ABC with Program Production. The support functions are: Finance and Business Services, Human its audience – it is clearly a SPECIAL Resources, and Technology Strategy and Development. The organisational structure is RELATIONSHIP.’ leaner and more contemporary. Throughout this period, it is encouraging that Bob Mansfield, The challenge of a better ABC Volume 1: A review of the role and audiences around the country have so functions of the ABC evidently demonstrated their confidence in the organisation and the directions it is pursuing.

10 Reshaping: One ABC statement by directors While financial savings had to be identified, there were sound creative reasons for embarking on the restructure. The ABC had to reposition itself to take account of a media environment characterised by new media forms and converging technologies. It needed a structure that would ensure it could take advantage of ‘At the commencement of these opportunities, while maintaining its commitment to quality programming and strong identification with the community. the review, management The Corporation also had to review its business support services such as management of the vehicle fleet, human resources, marketing and had embarked on a payroll. The reviews identified savings of some $8 million per annum beginning in 1997–98 — part of the total of $28 million in savings to be achieved by decisions flowing from the One ABC restructure. process of internal 1996–97 Budget reshaping based on the Alongside the reshaping work, management decisions had to be made to deal with the immediate budget realities. philosophy of One ABC. I A swift response to the August 1996 Federal Budget was required as the Corporation had already commenced the new financial year. fully agree with this Within days of the Budget, the Board had endorsed a strategy which included the business support services review, a 15 per cent approach and believe the reduction in senior executive numbers and general staff reductions. The Board was unable to avoid having to make some cuts to radio organisational changes and television production though it was determined that the impact on programs and audiences was to be minimised. announced in December The necessary staff losses in 1996–97 were achieved through voluntary redundancies which numbered 345. 1996 are a definite Notwithstanding its severely constrained budget position, the ABC maintained liquidity throughout the financial year and operated step in the right within the limits of its total sources of funds and parliamentary appropriation. direction.’

Review of the ABC’s Role and Functions Bob Mansfield, The challenge of a better ABC Volume 1: A review of the role and functions of the The ABC greeted the review, conducted for the Government by Mr Bob ABC Mansfield, as an opportunity to restate the case for a comprehensive public broadcaster and to set out an agenda for the future. The ABC made two formal submissions. The first stressed the enduring value of the national broadcaster and the strength of public support for its services. It mapped the reshaping plans and indicated that the severity, timing and abruptness of the announced funding cuts had made the process and the potential long term benefits more difficult to achieve. A second submission towards the conclusion of the review provided an update on the reshaping work, detailing the creative benefits of the restructure and the savings identified under One ABC. The submission also outlined the Corporation’s plans for property rationalisation, digitisation and the implications for future funding needs. The review attracted an extraordinary level of public interest and response with 10 600 submissions being made. In his report, Mr Mansfield acknowledged that Australia had been well served by the ABC over a long period and concluded that ‘a strong and effective ABC is still greatly valued by the people of Australia’.

11 Mr Mansfield endorsed the reshaping direction and recommended base funding for domestic services of around $500 million per annum. He suggested measures to assist a digital upgrade and to fund redundancies. Significantly, he stressed the need for long term certainty about funding. The ABC welcomed the Report’s recognition of the national broadcaster’s central importance to Australians and the need for funding certainty. However, some aspects of the report raised critical issues for debate: the level of in-house television

Rachel Maza as Marnie Kennedy in production, the future of international broadcasting services and the Frontier, the compelling documentary ABC’s responsibilities under its Charter. series on Australia’s 150 year land war. The ABC believes that the outsourcing contestability model which allows for internal producers to compete, provides the most effective way of ensuring that programs are produced efficiently and are of value to ABC audiences. It is important for the ABC to retain a strategic presence in the international broadcasting arena and the Board has taken decisions to ensure that this is the case. A non-prescriptive Charter continues to serve the ABC and its audiences well. There is no publicly articulated demand to change it. Mr Mansfield noted that the vast majority of submissions did not mention the issue of perceived bias in the presentation of issues. However, the Board has a statutory responsibility to ensure that the gathering and presentation of news and information is accurate and impartial, and has initiated a regular reporting regime to monitor performance in this area. The Board has responded formally to the Government on Mr Mansfield’s recommendations. Triennial Funding Agreement In its submissions to Government for funding in the new triennium commencing in 1997–98, the ABC argued strongly for base funding of $525 million to maintain its existing domestic and international services. This submission took account of the savings identified under the One ABC restructure. The Board submitted that it would have to consider options unpalatable to audiences if inadequate funding was provided. It was argued that short term assistance was required if the $55 million cut were to proceed in full. Some concessions were gained in the form of short term or one-off funding relief. Orchestras In December 1996, following earlier decisions by the Board, the Cultural Ministers’ Council — comprised of Arts Ministers from State,

12 Territory and Commonwealth Governments — announced an historic statement by directors agreement regarding the future of the ABC symphony orchestras. Under this agreement the other five ABC orchestras and the former ABC Concerts Division will follow the example of the Sydney Symphony in becoming subsidiary companies of the ABC. These developments will enable the orchestras to build a stronger sense of identity, local community ownership and responsibility. Under the corporatisation plan, the orchestras will remain closely associated with the ABC, but they will have for the first time their own Boards of Directors with complete responsibility for their artistic and financial affairs. Productive synergies with the ABC, including through Classic FM and the ABC Classics CD label, will be not only maintained but enhanced. Both the Melbourne and Adelaide Symphony orchestras were incorporated from 1 July 1997, with the remaining orchestras to follow as their individual circumstances permit. The former ABC Concerts Division was also incorporated as Symphony Australia from 1 July 1997, to provide national coordination and central services to the orchestras. International Broadcasting 1996–97 has seen a significant shift in focus for the ABC’s international broadcasting activities. In 1995 the Board determined that the ABC would not divert further of its base funding to the satellite television service, Australia Television. Additional Commonwealth funding was subsequently obtained to assist the continuation of the service for Donald Hazelwood, Co- Concertmaster, Sydney three years from 1996–97. Symphony Orchestra since Expressions of interest from the commercial sector for involvement 1965. in Australia Television were sought in December. A successful restructuring outcome with continuing involvement by the ABC was anticipated with the ABC to remain a supplier of quality programs, particularly news and current affairs. The Seven Network was the successful bidder and news production, presentation and transmission will continue from the ABC’s Darwin premises. In the ABC’s triennial funding submission, a level of base funding was sought to maintain the full range of Radio Australia language services, which would continue a great international broadcasting tradition. It was made clear that if adequate base funding was not provided, the Board would have to set appropriate priorities. Prior to the announcement of the Federal Budget, the Government indicated it was prepared to fund, in addition to the ABC’s base appropriation, a reduced Radio Australia service. This would have consisted of English language and Tok Pisin services delivered by satellite and short-wave. The Board decided to build on this funding to include Bahasa Indonesia, Mandarin, Khmer and Vietnamese language services. Regrettably, the level of programming and services to all regional audiences could not be maintained and French, Thai and Cantonese language services were discontinued. In a difficult funding environment, the ABC has been able to maintain a critical strategic involvement in international

13 broadcasting in the region. There is potential to enhance the future role of Radio Australia through, for instance, collaboration with the education sector in delivering services internationally and such options will be actively pursued. National Transmission Network While the ABC is responsible for the content and delivery of its programs, it has not controlled the delivery and transmission of services, as that has been the responsibility of the National Transmission Agency (NTA). The Government has decided, in principle, to sell the national transmission network and commissioned a scoping study to investigate options for achieving a viable sale. It is anticipated that the sale of 550 transmission facilities, managed by the NTA, will take place by the middle of 1998. These facilities transmit programs both for the ABC and the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). Potentially, the sale of NTA facilities and the transfer of transmission funds to the broadcasters will enable the ABC to exercise greater control over service levels and the planning of new services. It will involve amendment to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983. ABC Chairman, Donald McDonald, introducing the inaugural Andrew Olle Media Lecture given by David Retirement of Director Williamson in November. Queensland based director Janine Walker left the Board on 30 June after six years. Janine brought to the Board an understanding of broadcasting as a former ABC program maker and she made an outstanding contribution to Board deliberations through her commitment to strong local programming and the values of public broadcasting. The future With the restructuring of the organisation now firmly underway and a new triennial funding agreement secured, the ABC has a firm basis on which to develop its services into the new millennium. The Board thanks all creative and support staff for continuing to provide audiences with quality programs and services. The ABC has continued its tradition of excellence throughout a period of intense activity and change which could not have been achieved without the extraordinary performance of staff throughout the organisation.

Donald McDonald Diana Gribble Brian Johns John Bannon Russell Bate Kirsten Garrett Ian MacPhee Wendy Silver Janine Walker

14 & news and current affairs currentnews affairs

In June 1997 the ABC celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its independent news service. The ABC’s News and Current Affairs operations underwent significant changes this year. Radio News Current Affairs and Sport were merged with Television News and Current Affairs as part of the One ABC restructure. Considerable progress was made in restructuring ‘The view that the the portfolio with marginal impact on output. Paul Williams was appointed Head of the new portfolio. Australian democratic

Programs and Services process would be In the first half of the financial year, News and Current Affairs had immeasurably impaired to reduce its workforce to meet the first round of budget cuts. More than thirty editorial positions were lost from Television newsrooms without the existence of and current affairs programs around Australia and the early morning half-hour news program First Edition was taken off air in August. A smaller number of editorial positions was lost from Radio News and the ABC’s news and Current Affairs areas. The number of senior executives will reduce from 33 to 22. information services Reuniting Radio and Television News and Current Affairs had a positive impact on the services. There has been a steady was consistently put to interchange between radio and television journalists, which has encouraged cooperation and an increase in output especially in the me. The role of the ABC news services. Coverage of the Sandline crisis in Papua New Guinea and the coup in Zaire demonstrated the benefit of a combined ABC in informing Australians News and Current Affairs service. ABC News in Perth provided national television and radio coverage of the dramatic rescue of and thus enabling them yachtsmen Thierry Dubois and Tony Bulimore, including a live television broadcast of their welcoming ceremony at Fremantle. to fully participate in Radio Current Affairs main programs AM, PM, and The World Today continued to produce a good audience response. Under its new Australian public and management structure, Radio Current Affairs is continually monitoring the relevance of structures, style, and typical content of political life is, I believe, these three programs. On television, Australian Story has achieved critical success. Four one of the fundamental Corners reporter-led format proved highly popular with the audience. Stories on native title issue, the banking industry and the defence Black Hawk disaster were acclaimed. justifications for the The highlight of the year for Radio Sport was the outstanding ABC.’ coverage of the Atlanta Olympic and Paralympic Games. Nationally, the highlights were the continued success of Grandstand and Bob Mansfield, The challenge of a better ABC coverage of major football codes, test cricket, and a wide range of Volume 1: A review of the role and functions other sports. of the ABC The year ended with News and Current Affairs providing round-the- clock coverage of the Hong Kong ‘handover’ on radio and television.

15 ●Moscow London●●Brussels Beijing● ●New York ●Jerusalem ● Washington● ●Amman Tokyo New Delhi● ●Hong Kong ●Hanoi ●Bangkok ●Nairobi Jakarta● ●Port Moresby

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● ABC Bureaus and Correspondents

International Coverage In January, News and Current Affairs began a review of its overseas operations to redistribute its resources in line with current editorial demands. The London Bureau was reduced in favour of the Brussels Bureau as the new hub for European coverage. Bangkok is likewise being enhanced as a hub for Asian coverage, taking over from the Singapore Bureau which has been closed and the Hanoi office which will close in late 1997. There have been minor changes in the operation of a number of smaller bureaus where outsourcing of some services has been trialed. North American operations will be reviewed in 1997–98. News and Current Affairs is also working with other broadcasters and agencies to reduce the costs of international production. Examples included the coverage of the Hong Kong handover which was produced using facilities shared with other broadcasters and Four Corners, which completed its first large co-production with the UK’s Channel Four on the handover. On-line Service ABC News and Current Affairs began the first stage of what will be a major expansion of its contribution to ABC Online. ABC News Online is being built around the existing news group in Brisbane where an Online Editor has been appointed to oversee editorial quality and to develop new or expanded services. The new service, specially crafted for the Internet, will be launched in the new financial year. The service makes use of existing radio and television news and current affairs sources as well as audio from the Radio News D–Cart system and some television graphics. Ultimately it will incorporate video as part of a fully integrated

16 Internet service and showcase the ABC’s Regional operations. news and current affairs

Audiences Audience numbers for News and Current Affairs programs generally held up well against those of the previous year. The most controversial audience issue remained the 7.30 Report which became a national program during the previous year. Audience figures for the last half of 1996–97 were virtually the same as those for the corresponding period for the previous year. However audience movement varied around the country with increases in Melbourne and Perth, losses in Sydney and Brisbane, and Adelaide remaining stable.

Resource Management During the year, ABC News and Current Affairs began a consultative process to plan for the transfer of relevant Resources and Production Resource staff from the Television and Radio divisions to the new portfolio. The staff categories include field camera crews, editors, directors, news graphics staff and some studio crews. The intention is to give more creative independence and responsibility to the ABC’s program teams and to provide staff with broader career options. It also acknowledges the emerging differences in the production methods and technology used by News and Current Affairs on the one hand, and general programming on the other, i.e. the difference between the immediate, more process- driven nature of daily news and current affairs, and the more varied and pre-planned nature of general television programs. A key outcome will be the development of expanded career paths.

Future Directions The effects of the restructure are most apparent within News and Current Affairs where collocation of radio and television operations has seen newsrooms brought together physically. This has occurred in Perth and Brisbane. Other States are at various stages in moving towards collocation. The major development will occur in Sydney where it is proposed that Television News and Current Affairs operations will move from Gore Hill to join with radio operations at the Ultimo centre. News and Current Affairs has decided to trial a fully digital field and editing operation in one State and wherever possible to avoid further purchases of analogue equipment. ABC News and Current Affairs is looking to build a cross--media platform for a 24 hour news gathering capability covering local, State, national and international news to serve a new range of program needs. Specific initiatives this year included research and development and initial funding for an expanded Online service, and technological research on a possible pilot of a regional television news service.

17 regional services

Regional Services embodies the ABC’s commitment to localism and to providing services which respond to the needs of the diverse State regional and rural audiences throughout Australia. This commitment was reinforced in the Mansfield Review which confirmed the importance of the ABC ‘maintaining a regional presence‘ and providing ‘programming with a regional focus’. ‘The provision of regional Around Australia, ABC Regional Services responds to this commitment through: based services should not • a local radio network of nine Metropolitan Stations and 49 Regional Stations and outposts; be regarded purely as a • local Television sport, general programming and coverage of important events in each State and Territory; community service • specialist Rural Radio broadcasting; • indigenous broadcasting and support to indigenous media obligation…The ABC could associations and communities; • marketing the ABC and representing the ABC at all levels of the not adequately reflect the community; and • supporting local ABC production Australia-wide through extensive plurality of Australian views State and Territory resources. Regional Services aims to represent and reflect the whole of if it operated out of capital Australia through its local, regional and rural presence, not just by providing services to these communities but also by being part of cities alone.’ community life.

Bob Mansfield, The challenge of a better ABC The value of connecting with the community has been evidenced. Volume 1: A review of the role and functions of the throughout the year by the level of community support for the ABC ABC demonstrated in the response to the Mansfield Review, and the ABC’s Picnics in the Park and Open Days held in all States and Territories. Highlights of these community events during 1996–97 include: • the fiftieth anniversary of the ABC in the Northern Territory where more than 1000 people attended a celebratory concert featuring local musicians, dancers and actors. The concert was broadcast live on 8DDD and Territory Radio, with highlights of the event televised later in the week; • the sixtieth anniversary of the ABC in Orange in NSW which was celebrated with a traditional dinner dance attended by members of the community, special guests, and staff. The following day, the Orange studios were opened to the public during Michael Close’s Breakfast program, followed by a Picnic in Robertson Park, featuring Bananas in Pyjamas and local artists; • the sixtieth anniversary of ABC Radio broadcasts from Kalgoorlie, now known as the ABC Goldfields/Esperance, which was marked by opening the studio to the community and broadcasting nostalgic music and interviews highlighting the years gone by; and

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• the ABC’s 1996 Rural Woman of the Year Award won by Barbara Scott, a wool garment manufacturer and sustainable agriculture farmer from Coonabarabran in western NSW. Ms Scott was chosen from more than 250 entrants Australia-wide. Local radio – program source Per cent Programs and Services 100

Local Radio 80 As part of the strategy to manage a reduced budget, changes to the programming framework and presentation line-ups on Metropolitan Stations were introduced at the commencement of 1997. The 60 changes focused on maintaining local programming in the key Breakfast, Morning and Drive periods and involved a greater sharing 40 of programs with Regional Stations in each State.

The most significant of these changes were: 20 • a single local Morning program (combining two shifts into one);

• a new Early Afternoon program broadcast State-wide on 0 Metropolitan and Regional Stations; 1996 1997 1996 1997 Metropolitan Stations Regional Statioms • a new Evening program around Australia, with a separate Evening program for Western Australia. Local State National 1997 also saw changes to some Local Radio presenters: Richard Glover took over from Jennie Brockie on 2BL in Sydney to present the new Morning program, and Simon Royal replaced Keith Conlon and Matthew Abraham on the Morning program on 5AN in Adelaide. Local Radio farewelled long-time Breakfast presenters, Bob Cure from 7ZR Hobart and ■ Darwin Peter Dick from 4QR Brisbane, and introduced former Triple J presenter Angela Catterns to ◗ Kununurra Local Radio audiences in the ● Cairns new Evening program, with ●Broome Ted Bull entertaining the ● Townsville Evening audience in ●Mt Isa ● Karratha Western ● Mackay Australia. On ● Longreach ●Alice Springs weekends, ●Rockhampton Kevin ◗ Gladstone Naughton ●Bundaberg ◗Maryborough replaced ●Maroochydore Frank Crook Toowoomba● ■ Brisbane ●Gold Coast on the ● Geraldton ●Lismore Saturday and ◗Grafton Kalgoorlie ● ◗ ● Coffs Harbour Sunday Evening ● Tamworth ●Kempsey ◗Pt Augusta Broken Hill Dubbo● Perth■ ● ● Muswellbrook programs. Pt Pirie ● ■Newcastle Pt Lincoln Orange ◗ Esperance ● Renmark● ■ ● Bunbury ●Mildura Sydney A decision was Adelaide■ ●Wollongong Canberra■ also made to cease ● Albany Wagga Wagga ● ◗Nowra Horsham ● ●Shepparton ◗ ✦ Albury Bendigo ● the Friday night ●Bega ● Mt Gambier ■Melbourne trotting program ● Sale● ABC Local Radio Warrnambool ◗Traralgon broadcast on Regional ● Regional Radio Studios ◗ Regional Studio outposts Radio to four regions in ■Metropolitan Stations ● Burnie ●Launceston Western Australia at the Coverage area

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19 end of 1997. This decision was based on the need to cater for the broader audience in Western Australia, a large proportion of which indicated their disinterest in racing or trotting information in a Statewide regional survey conducted in mid- 1996. This decision attracted adverse reaction from trotting organisations, local councils and local politicians. Local Television Around Australia, sport fans continued to follow their home teams in a range of local sports covered by ABC Television in addition to the national coverage of major sports such as cricket. During the winter months, South Australians, Western Australians and Tasmanians were able to tune into their local Australian Rules football competitions, while in Queensland, Northern Territory and New South Wales Rugby League and Rugby Union were broadcast. At other times of the year, the efforts of the Tasmanian Devils in the National Basketball League were appreciated by their community, Victorians kept up to date with local VFL and other sports fixtures and results in a Saturday afternoon local sports program, and Queenslanders supported their local Table Tennis and Netball competitions. A new initiative called Snapshot commenced in Peter Gooch, Queensland Regional Queensland in July. This co-operative venture between radio and Radio and Cathy Border, 4QR television staff in the State provides a one minute showcase of Brisbane combined talents to present the Drive program from Charleville community festivals and events happening throughout Queensland. during the 1997 floods. Presented by ABC radio and television personalities, Snapshot is broadcast each weekday just prior to the 7.00pm News on ABC Television. Program Highlights The coverage of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games on ABC Local Radio was a major highlight of the year. A team of 30 radio commentators, production and technical staff provided sixteen hours of live comprehensive coverage and summaries of at least 50 events each day for Metropolitan and Regional Stations. The ability to provide immediate live coverage of events ahead of the scheduled commercial television coverage was recognised by the Australian public in the considerable favourable reaction to the ABC’s Games broadcasts. To complement the Radio coverage a large Olympic Games website was developed. Two of the Radio team remained in Atlanta to work with colleagues to provide ABC-Television coverage of the Paralympics. The ABC’s strength as a local and national broadcaster able to cover emergencies and provide vital information to the community in times of need, was displayed on several occasions during the year. In the Northern Territory, Cyclone Rachel passed close to Darwin, necessitating warnings and local broadcasts overnight. Bushfires in Victoria involved staff working around the clock to produce a comprehensive and up-to-date coverage until the fires were under

20 regional services control. In Queensland, 4QR and Regional Drive programs combined ‘There are a dozen of us to broadcast for more than eleven hours from Charleville during the flood crisis, and two cyclones threatening the eastern coast kept regional and rural staff busy with regular warnings. Widespread here, and we farm a coverage of floods in the pastoral north east of South Australia was provided by 5CK Port Pirie with Rural’s Tiffany Miller visiting Olary Property of some 4 500 and 5AN Adelaide’s Philip Satchell broadcasting from flood-affected Oodlawirra, and from Port Pirie. acres. We are too far from The ABC Local Radio/South Australian Farmers’ Federation Flood (SAFF)Appeal raised $180 000 for flood-affected families and the town to receive Country Hour and SAFF Operation Fence Fix resulted in considerable assistance being given by other primary producers to the flood- newspapers, and work affected areas. As a result of the bushfire coverage, Local Radio in Victoria hours that can range from developed its relationship with the Country Fire Authority (CFA) by hosting a two day public information campaign — Bushfire Line. 4am to midnight. So we Nearly 600 people called the CFA to discuss fire problems. The ABC depends on the reliability of transmitters to provide this have little chance to watch vital information to the community. Problems this year in Queensland and Tasmania in particular, have required ongoing Television but we have at discussions with the National Transmission Agency. The spirit of Anzac Day was captured again this year through ABC least 24 radios, and listen local television and radio coverage of marches and events. Many Metropolitan and Regional Radio Stations broadcast the National wherever we are day and Dawn Service from Canberra during their Breakfast programs and across the country, local Breakfast and Morning programs emphasised community participation and feeling about Anzac Day. night. All these radios are ABC Television covered Dawn Services, marches and other Anzac Day events around the country, with special Anzac Day segments and tuned to the ABC, either to archival footage. Commemorating the first anniversary of the Port Arthur tragedy on 1 the Country Service or to May involved wide community consultation. ABC Local Radio and ABC Television broadcast the ecumenical service from Port Arthur Radio National. Thanks to and the church service from Hobart in the evening. 3LO Melbourne was host broadcaster for the Aboriginal the ABC we remain Reconciliation Convention held in Melbourne in May. Numerous live interviews, music and crosses were made available to Local Radio informed, entertained and stations across Australia, as well as the ABC’s national radio networks and News and Current Affairs programs, providing aware. The programs help extensive ABC coverage of the opening and closing ceremonies and issues arising from the Convention. with our farming, our The ABC’s local coverage of these and other events throughout the year, reinforced the integral role it plays in the life of Australia’s health, our travel and our diverse communities. Regional Services Online dreams.’

Taking advantage of the opportunities offered by online access, Submission from rural NSW in Bob Mansfield , Regional Services offers a broad menu of services to the online The challenge of a better ABC Volume 2: A report on submissions received by the review of the role audience. and functions of the ABC ABC’s Metropolitan Radio Stations 2BL Sydney, 3LO Melbourne, 2CN Canberra, 4QR Brisbane and 7ZR Hobart can be accessed through ABC Online, providing program schedules, presenter and other information ranging from weather, to sports broadcasts and

21 associated links to other sites. The Bush Telegraph, Rural Radio’s website provides a daily rural news service compiled from the ABC’s National Rural News which is broadcast each weekday on The Country Hour. The site also includes program summaries for The Country Hour, Countrywide and Rural Reporter and links to other rural information on the Web.

Future Directions Over the next three years Regional Services will increase the amount of local programming on radio and television, emphasising the ABC’s role as a regional as well as national broadcaster, and increase audience access through online The team at ABC Local Radio, initiatives. Goldfields-Esperance, celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of broadcasts from Localism on television will develop through a layered approach Kalgoorlie (6GF). which incorporates the ABC’s image, its responsiveness to special Back row, from left: Suellen Jerrard, Tom Murrell, John Bowler, Kim regional events and through building a platform for new, ongoing Hutchinson. Front row, from left: local television programs. George ‘Rip’ Hayhow (local identity), Irene Montefiore, Brad McCahon. Local identification initiatives — the planned extension of the one minute Snapshot initiative introduced in 1996 in Queensland, to each State and Territory commencing in September 1997. It also includes a series of Regional Radio promotions for broadcast on ABC Television. Special event coverage — an additional 12 new special events identified throughout Australia for coverage in 1997–98, maximising the involvement of radio and television in each State and Territory. Events may be broadcast both locally and nationally. Contributing to national programs — encouraging the use of more local elements in national programs. Local program initiatives — the development of new local programs. An approach to increasing localism on radio is being developed by each State and Territory with the aim of minimising the degree to which audiences are dislocated from normal programming on their local Metropolitan and Regional stations during the summer period. In the past the Sounds of Summer season on Local Radio stations across Australia ran for a period of five weeks, each station maintaining a local Breakfast program only, with a special nationally networked format across the rest of the day. This year, Regional Services aims to reduce the Sounds of Summer period from five to four weeks, and extend local programming where possible. The extent to which these approaches for increasing localism on television and radio can be implemented will depend on the level of funding available.

22 The consolidation of the ABC’s marketing and audience research regional services resources into a single unit within Regional Services will further strengthen the ABC’s ability to respond to diverse audience needs. A State-based focus will be introduced to online activity, providing access to a range of information on Metropolitan and Regional services in each State and Territory. The Bush Telegraph will be further developed over the next year to contain an up-to-the-minute market information service. The 1997 Rural Woman of the Year Award was launched in Canberra in May. At the launch, National Editor Rural, Lucy Broad, announced that the ABC would be considering a change of focus for 1998. Since the Award was established in 1994, the ABC has had a major impact in raising the awareness of the contribution of rural women across the country, and in highlighting many examples of the difference rural women have made in their industries or communities. In this time the external environment has shifted and there is now much wider recognition of the role of rural women. For 1998, consideration is being given to a focus on rural and regional youth which would promote leadership, raise awareness of issues of youth unemployment, youth suicide and the exodus of young people to the cities, as well as promote the use of younger voices in ABC programs.

Broadcaster Terry Lane at Melbourne Day in the Park held in 3LO’s Ian Mannix capturing the ANZAC spirit in Melbourne. March.

23 radio & television audiences Radio in regional areas and the total national Audiences — Radio ABC Local Radio audience is 3 882 000 (down The overall national weekly audience reach for 0.2 per cent). In Sydney, 2BL’s weekly reach the ABC’s radio services increased by 2.0 per decreased to 504 000, with its share steady on cent to an annual average of 6 389 000, once 7.4 per cent. In Melbourne, 3LO’s weekly reach again a record. This reflected strong audience increased to 675 000 and its share rose to 11.0 growth in the national networks. per cent. In Brisbane, 4QR’s reach decreased to The ABC aggregate share remained steady in 246 000 and its share to 9.3 per cent. In Sydney (19.1 per cent), Brisbane (24.3 per Adelaide, 5AN’s reach decreased slightly to cent) and Perth (24.5 per cent). It increased 167 000 and its share to 7.6 per cent. Perth’s significantly in Melbourne (to 20.7 per cent), 6WF’s reach was down slightly to 231 000 as Newcastle (to 22.0 per cent), Canberra (to 46.2 was its share to 9.6 per cent. In Hobart, 7ZR’s per cent), Darwin (to 47.1 per cent) and Hobart reach increased slightly to 75 000 and share (to 47.9 per cent) and is lower in Adelaide increased to 26.4 per cent. Canberra’s 2CN’s (20.6 per cent). reach increased to 89 000 and its share to 17.1 per cent. In Newcastle, 2NC’s reach increased to Metropolitan Radio’s weekly audience reach in 77 000 and its share to 10.0 per cent. In the nine cities is 2 086 000, marginally down Darwin, 8DDD’s reach increased marginally to 26 (by 0.9 per cent) on the 1995–96 figure. The 000 and its share to 24.7 per cent. Regional Radio reach of 1 337 000 is down by 0.2 per cent. However, there is a sizeable Radio National’s overall national weekly reach audience of 543 000 who listen to Metropolitan increased marginally (0.9 per cent) to 887 000. The network’s reach increased slightly in

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24 metropolitan areas (to 659 000) but decreased and 72 per cent, a level maintained since 1991. radio and television audiences slightly in regional areas (to 228 000). The four-weekly reach for the five cities has ABC Classic FM’s national weekly reach increased been maintained at between 88 per cent and 90 significantly to 990 000 (up 8.3 per cent). This per cent. increase was stronger in metropolitan areas (8.9 ABC Television’s overall (6am to midnight) five- per cent) than regional areas (6.3 per cent). city audience share increased to 14.9 per cent Triple J’s national weekly reach grew by 4.5 per in mid-1997, with the evening (6pm to cent to 2 147 000. This growth was stronger in midnight) share averaging 15.0 per cent. Each regional areas (6.4 per cent) than in of the five cities has maintained or improved its metropolitan areas (2.1 per cent). overall and evening share levels compared with the same time last year, with Perth and The strongest growth shown by an ABC network Melbourne recording the largest increases. was NewsRadio which increased its national weekly reach to 397 000 (up 44.9 per cent). ABC Television attracts a particularly strong audience share for its children’s programming. During the hours from 8.30am to 10.00am and Audiences — television 3.00pm to 6.00pm Monday to Friday, 46 per ABC Television’s weekly audience reach for the cent of viewing by 0-4 year olds and 35 per five cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, cent of viewing by 5-12 year olds is on ABC Adelaide and Perth ranged between 70 per cent Television.

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1996 MID JUNE 1997 Program 5 Cities Program 5 Cities Audience Audience ‘000 ‘000 1. Keeping Up Appearances 1411 1. Heartbeat 1551 2. Pride and Prejudice 1401 2. The Bill – Saturday 1475 * 3. McFeast: Breasts 1347 3. Pie in the Sky 1347 4. Riverdance the Show 1326 * 4. ABC News – Monday 1193 5. Hamish Macbeth 1302 5. Hetty Wainthropp Investigates 1192 6. Pie in the Sky 1301 6. Ballykissangel 1177 7. The Bill – Saturday 1284 7. The Bill – Tuesday 1169 8. Heartbeat 1263 8. Vicar of Dibley Easter Special 1137 * 9. 7.30 Report Budget 96 1219 * 9. ABC News – Tuesday 1093 10. Mr Bean 1139 * 10. Late Edition News – Saturday 1089 * 11. ABC News – Monday 1115 11. One Foot In the Grave 1073 12. Keeping Up Appearances Xmas Special 1106 * 12. Frontline 1057 * 13. Late Edition News – Saturday 1102 * 13. ABC News – Wednesday 1042 14. Royal Scandal 1089 14. Next of Kin 1038 15. Thin Blue Line 1068 15. Thin Blue Line 1036 16. Fantastic World of Michael Crawford 1055 * 16. ABC News-Thursday 1022 17. Fawlty Towers 1042 17. Rumpole of the Bailey (9.30pm) 1016 * 18. ABC News-Tuesday 1036 18. Princess Margaret Special 1006 19. Dr Who the Movie 1022 * 19. ABC News – Sunday 992 * 20. ABC News – Sunday 1012 20. Edinburgh Military Tattoo 987

*Australian Content The above table lists the most popular programs transmitted by ABC Televion in the calendar year 1996 and up to June 1997 for the five capital cities, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.

26 networksnational national networks

The One ABC restructure brought together for the first time all the ABC’s national and international electronic outlets into one portfolio. National Networks is responsible for the commissioning, purchasing, scheduling and promotion of all programs broadcast ‘The most important aspect on the ABC’s national domestic television and radio networks, its international television and radio services, and multimedia and of the ABC in my view is that online services — Network Television, Radio National, ABC Classic FM, NewsRadio, Triple J, Radio Australia, Australia Television and it provides a comprehensive ABC Multimedia. Brought together into one portfolio, the editorial content of these networks can be shaped from a single One ABC service to all Australians. Its vision thus ensuring a genuinely comprehensive, innovative, radio and television services quality output nationally which complements local and regional services. provide news and current The purpose of drawing these networks together is to focus the organisation on the creation and expression of ideas and program affairs, information and concepts, rather than on the means of delivery. By encouraging cross-media programming, National Networks will maximise the entertainment to Australians value of the intellectual capital of the ABC, the ideas and wherever they reside in expression of its program contributors. The structural barriers between Television and Radio have been removed and the role of Australia, and to all age, Multimedia greatly enhanced. cultural and social groups. Network Television We are all linked by these The network continued to give priority to distinctive programming which reflects the regional and cultural diversity of the services in spite of the community. geographical and social differences that divide us. The ABC helps to maintain a cohesive society.’

Bob Mansfield, The challenge of a better ABC Volume 1: A review of the role and functions of the ABC

Ruth Cracknell recording her role in Frontier, a compelling documentary series on Australia’s 150 year land war.

27 ABC Television sought to commission, acquire and schedule programs to achieve greater immediacy and engagement with current issues. Priority was also given to the development of programs for younger audiences. Changes to the structure and operations of ABC Television announced in December resulted in the appointment of seven commissioning editors, and the development of new commissioning procedures for in-house and independent producers. Arts Arts programs provide a showcase for Australian cultural achievement. The ABC’s commitment is unmatched and the ABC again provided a strong line-up of programs this year. Opera Australia’s controversial production of Verdi’s Nabucco, directed by Barrie Kosky was simulcast with ABC Classic FM. The fortieth anniversary of the Australian Opera was marked by a special program which featured archival recordings from many of the productions recorded by ABC Television. The remarkable success of Australian-born conductor Simone Young was profiled in The Young One, and screened prior to her appointment as Artistic Director of Robert Hughes , author and presenter of American Visions Opera Australia. Lorin Maazel returned to Australia after an absence of more than twenty years to conduct concerts with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Sydney and at the Brisbane Biennial. A performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 was simulcast live with ABC Classic FM. Other significant live music broadcasts included the final of the ABC’s Young Performer of the Year Award and the final performances from contestants in the Sydney International Piano Competition. Both concerts were simulcast with ABC Classic FM. The fourteen part Access All Areas, presented by Paul Grabowsky and Jaslyn Hall took listeners on a journey through performances and discussion of an eclectic mix of music styles. Music of the Twentieth Century, a seven part international co- production, featured Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in a series which explored the qualities distinguishing concert music of this century. Australian audiences were first to see the outstanding American

Eight young filmmakers on their way to travel the world, making mini documentaries for ABC TV’s Race Around the World. Back row, from left: Ben Davies, Bentley Dean, John Safran, Olivia Rousset, Scott Herford, Kim Triall. Front row: Claudia Rowe, Daniel Marsden.

28 Visions, an eight part documentary series on the national networks history of American art presented by social commentator, historian and art critic Robert Hughes. The six part series A History of British Art presented by critic Andrew Graham-Dixon, linked history, politics, architecture and literature to tell the story of Britain’s cultural life. Documentaries Budget reductions resulted in a decline in the number of independent documentaries commissioned under the ABC’s accord with the Film Finance Corporation. Nevertheless the ABC’s documentary output had a significant impact. For Somebody Now, Film-maker David Goldie Political conflict was powerfully recorded in Rats in the Ranks as (pictured above with Brad) tracks down some of the street kids from his acclaimed film film-makers Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson recorded the events Nobody’s Children, to find out where they are leading to the mayoral election for a Sydney inner city council. In now, and what’s happened to their lives since Billal, Tom Zubryki followed the adjustment of a family whose he last spoke to them. teenage son was left permanently brain damaged following a cross cultural conflict. The film was awarded best documentary at the 1996 Australian Film Industry Awards. In Somebody Now David Goldie revisited the street kids from his 1991 award winning Nobody’s Children and explored the way each had survived. Frontier, a three part documentary series, provided the first television account of the history of tension between indigenous Australians and European settlers for control of the land from 1788 to 1938. A companion web site was developed to coincide with the series and a double CD–Rom was released. The Human Race documented the extraordinary endurance of three men from different cultures as they trekked 500 kilometres across the Kimberley in northern Australia. In another story of remarkable endurance, Susie is a Fish recorded marathon swimmer Susie Maroney’s attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. A River Somewhere featured Frontline’s Rob Sitch and Tom Gleisner on their journey around the world in pursuit of their passion, fly- fishing. A highlight of overseas documentaries seen during the year was Troublesome Creek — a Midwestern, a multi-award winning documentary which provided a personal account of the fate of rural America. Indigenous programs In July, NAIDOC Week was celebrated with the return of Kam Yan, a series made by indigenous broadcasters and dealing with issues of concern in indigenous communities. Also featured was Ochres, a performance of the Bangarra Dance Theatre and My Life as I Live It, a documentary by Essie Coffey, a Murrawarri activist and country and western singer turned film-maker. During the year, the Songlines series promoted the achievements of indigenous composers and performers. Michelle Tuahine, presenter for Australia’s black music program Songlines with Manduwuy Yunupingu, lead singer of Yothu Yindi.

29 Drama The multi-award winning series G.P. ended in December after eight seasons. Fallen Angels, a twenty episode series, set in a community legal centre on the fringe of a large city commenced in February. A highlight of the year was Simone de Beauvoir’s Babies, a four episode series co-produced with Artist Services, about a group of women in their thirties who after a twenty year school reunion, make a pact to each have a child. Amongst overseas drama productions, the BBC productions Ballykissangel and Pie in the Sky along with Hamish Macbeth from BBC Scotland gained strong audiences. The outstanding contribution to television drama made by the late British writer Dennis Potter was celebrated in a season which featured his final works Karaoke and its sequel Cold Lazarus. Children’s programs Playschool celebrated its thirtieth birthday in July with a special one hour edition Everybody Sing, along with the re-screening of some of the program’s most memorable episodes. Children’s Week in June showcased some of outstanding new series produced or acquired by the ABC. These included a new series of Bananas in Pyjamas and Magic Mountain, a new series for young children filmed in China as a co-production with China Central Television and Southern Star Entertainment. The Wayne Manifesto, a series for teenagers, based on the real and imagined adventures of a twelve year old, was commissioned from Artist Services and produced out of the Brisbane studios. Youth programs As part of a three year strategy to attract younger audiences, Recovery was introduced in early 1996, and in early 1997 the network commenced screening the internationally successful drama series Heartbreak High at 6.00pm four nights a week. It has been successful in attracting a large young audience to the timeslot. In the refreshingly different Race Around the World series, eight ABC Television Australian content Aust content 6am–midnight Aust content 6pm–midnight Per cent Per cent Per cent

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30 young film makers, selected from a field of 15 000, travel the world national networks making mini-documentaries of their adventures. Comedy A third series of the multi-award winning Frontline again proved popular, as did the Friday evening panel show Good News Week. Roy Slaven and H.G. Nelson continued to attract a strong Saturday evening following for Club Buggery. Breasts, presented by Elle McFeast, received awards in Australia and internationally for its entertaining and effective treatment of a sensitive subject. Science and Talks During Science Week in April the ABC highlighted the achievements of Australian science and discussed science issues across programs ranging from The 7.30 Report to Roy and H.G.’s Club Buggery. Quantum presented a five part special series What’s Your Poison? which examined the origins, effects and social history of nicotine, caffeine, marijuana, alcohol and ecstasy. Good News Week – a lively and satircal First Wednesday, a national forum for the discussion of issues and show taking a look at the world of news and ideas was introduced in April. Presented by Radio National’s Peter current affairs. From left: Mikey Robbins, Thompson, the monthly series invited audiences to debate Paul McDermott and Julie McCrossin. contemporary topics which included youth unemployment and media diversity. 2BL presenter Mike Carlton hosted Timeframe, a series about significant turning points in Australian life since World War 2. Topics ranged from the introduction of polio vaccination and oral contraception, to the damming of Lake Pedder and the 1967 referendum on Aboriginal citizenship. In the Home Truths series a diverse group of Australian families recorded their own experiences over twelve First run programs months. The series offered insights on relationships and Per cent family life which were then 60 discussed on Radio National’s Life Presenter Geoffrey Burchfield looks at alcohol Matters program the following for the ABC series Whats your Poison? morning. 40 Sport A highlight was the extensive coverage of the 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta. Tennis coverage included the Hopman Cup from Perth. The Australian Open Table Tennis Championship in Brisbane 20 was covered in September, whilst women’s sport included coverage of the final of the Women’s National Basketball League. Nightly reports of the 1996 Cycle Classic followed riders on their 1200 kilometre ride through NSW, and golf highlights included play from 0 the Kooyonga Open from Adelaide and the Terrey Hills Challenge in 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 Sydney. First run Programs 6am to Midnight

31 Radio National During the year there was speculation about the impact of budget cuts on ABC Radio Networks, particularly Radio National. The Board and Management however recognised the strength, complementarity and audience loyalty to the existing radio mastheads and supported their maintenance, despite severe budget pressure. Radio National has a strong focus on national and international news and current affairs and offers regular specialist programs on such topics as health, the law, science, religion, the arts, business and education. The network exploits a diverse range of radio forms including documentaries, features, drama and specialist music programming. The year saw a consolidation of specialist program resources and a ‘... I left school at 14 to substantial review of the schedule on Radio National, driven by creative and financial priorities. The 1997 schedule has fewer, but work in a factory. For me, better resourced, programs. The new programs include Airplay, a weekly showcase for radio drama; Melisma, music of the 20th century; Poetica, poetry from listening to the ABC gave Australia and around the world; The Comfort Zone, exploring the cultural significance of architecture and design, food, gardens and me the education and travel; and Arts Talk, looking at the arts in their historical, political and social context. The network’s commitment to coverage of knowledge of the world no religious issues was demonstrated by the inclusion of Religion Report in the 8.30am line-up, and the introduction of The Spirit of commercial radio bothered Things, looking at spiritual meaning in people’s lives. In June, Radio National extended its programming to include the about. Now I am a devotee weekend overnight schedule, which had previously relayed Radio Australia programs. of Radio National, no Radio National continued to make a leading contribution to the national political, cultural and social debate with special series and frenetic ‘modern’ music and public forums during the year. This began with Late Night Live forums about the future of the ABC in Townsville, Perth, Launceston a great comfort in the wee and Canberra. In April, Robert Dessaix began a 13 part series, Rethinking Australia: Intellectuals and the Public Culture. Arts Today small hours of long nights.’ hosted a major live forum, simultaneously in Melbourne and Sydney, on Australia’s changing cultural landscape. Submission from rural NSW in Bob Mansfield , The Author and sinologist Pierre Ryckmans presented the 1997 Boyer challenge of a better ABC Volume 2: A report on submissions received by the review of the role and Lectures, The View from The Bridge — Aspects of Culture, provoking functions of the ABC considerable controversy and media attention. In November the Radio Science Unit successfully obtained from the Federal Minister for Industry, Science and Technology a grant of $1.83 million over three years for science broadcasting activities. So far this funding has been used to appoint three trainee science broadcasters; for a series of fellowships for scientists to work in the Science Unit; for the ABC’s Broadcaster Jaslyn Hall with Willie Nelson for successful participation in the ABC TV’s Access All Areas, a new music documentary series. Jaslyn also broadcasts inaugural national Science on Radio National and Triple J.

32 Week; and for the first of the national networks ABC’s online gateways, The Lab. Highlights of music programming included special broadcasts of The Music Show from the Huntingdon Music Festival and the Sydney Opera House and extended live coverage from WOMADELAIDE featuring 150 musicians from 25 countries. The Music Show, Sunday Concert, The Planet and Melisma presented special programs from the Brisbane Biennial. Australian Music week in November was celebrated with a series of five concerts broadcast in the evenings and interviews with Australian musicians and composers were featured on the Breakfast program. Award winning Hindsight Radio Producer, Bill Bunbury (based in Perth). A highlight was the drama series Losing Paradise, an international co-production between the ABC, BBC Wales and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation which won a gold medal at the 1997 New York Radio Festival. This innovative program used ISDN circuits to record performers simultaneously in Cardiff, Toronto and Perth.

ABC Classic FM ABC Classic FM, Australia’s national classical music network broadcasts a wide range of classical music as well as new music, jazz and performance. The Sydney International Piano Competition, in July and August, was a major commitment with almost every session broadcast live from the NSW Conservatorium or the Sydney Opera House. This two week international musical event, held every four years, caught the imagination of audiences around the country. This was followed almost immediately by the Fourth World Symposium of Choral Music held in Sydney, which brought choirs from around the world to the network’s listeners. In July, ABC Classic FM and ABC Television simulcast the national finals of the Young Performer of the Year Awards. The event was hosted by ABC Classic FM’s Margaret Throsby, with commentary from Christopher Lawrence and composer Carl Vine. Australian Music Week in November was another highlight. Programming in this nation-wide celebration emphasised the enormous range and depth of Australian music. ABC Classic FM broadcast musical highlights from festivals around the country — including Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Townsville, Melbourne and Darwin. For the first time Australian audiences were able to hear operas in the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast Series from New York. ABC Classic FM broadcast ten operas in the series. The first, the double bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci featured Australian

33 conductor, Simone Young. One of the orchestral highlights of the year was the simulcast, with ABC Television, from Brisbane of the Sydney Symphony, conducted by Lorin Maazel, performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. ABC Classic FM also broadcast a major Australian series on the history of twentieth century music, Illegal Harmonies, written and presented by composer Andrew Ford. More than two years in the making, each of the ten 90 minute programs looked at the works of particular composers in a social, historical and technological context. The network maintained its commitment to new music with John Crawford’s New Music Australia giving exposure to more than 200 artists during the year. ABC Classic FM’s Computer Composition Award was announced in November during a live broadcast of New Music Australia from Melbourne’s Iwaki Auditorium. The award went to 29 year old Melbourne composer, Steve Law, for his work Urbania. The network broadcast all the performances from the annual Sydney Spring Festival of New Music and Margaret Throsby’s exclusive interview with the Festival’s special guest, Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. Quito, a contemporary music drama about a young schizophrenic Timorese musician who escaped to Darwin just prior to the 1975 Indonesian occupation, was broadcast on Soundstage in May. The Meinmuk brought together the work, with book and music by Martin Wesley-Smith and book and extraordinary talent of the Top End. Over 4 weeks 15 bands and solo artists recorded lyrics by Peter Wesley-Smith, was the ABC’s entry in the Music music in nine languages, including English, category of this year’s Prix Italia. on the Central Arnhem coast. In November, the network’s prestigious audio arts program The Listening Room was invited to take part in a festival entitled The Reflective Space in Melbourne. It presented Cinema for the Ears, a special concert for radiophonic works in the Kino cinema and Stockhausen Revisited live from the ABC’s Iwaki Auditorium.

NewsRadio ABC NewsRadio provides a comprehensive, informed, relevant national and international 24 hour continuous news and current affairs service on the Parliamentary and News Network (PNN) when Parliament is not sitting. Launched in August 1994, NewsRadio is the only service of its kind in Australia. PNN expanded its transmission during the year to include Darwin (on 102.5 FM), taking the service to listeners in and around all capital cities and Newcastle. Programming innovations included the introduction of the Newline news program from Radio Netherlands, now heard each morning. Later in 1997, NewsRadio will carry programs from other international broadcasters. These new programs build upon NewsRadio’s Worldwide segments which are presented each half hour. Additional programming from the ABC’s Rural department included a ten minute bulletin of Rural News scheduled at lunchtime on weekdays, a weekly segment with Rural Editor, Lucy Broad, and a tailored 10 minute Rural program produced for NewsRadio on weekends. This has enabled more listeners in capital cities to hear

34 quality ABC specialist material about rural Australia. national networks Particular emphasis was placed on developing weekend programming. A new summer afternoon format was introduced and regular NewsRadio updates and features are now heard on Saturday and Sunday nights. In winter, NewsRadio provided the most extensive AFL coverage on Australian radio. This coverage has been widely welcomed in a number of centres unable to get AFL commentary anywhere else on radio. It also enabled ABC Radio to provide its listeners with AFL commentaries when its Metropolitan stations were carrying the Test Cricket broadcasts from England. NewsRadio continued to develop its financial coverage, with more detailed information on weekday mornings and new segments at the weekend. Coverage of science and technology was also increased with an emphasis on developments from the online world. NewsRadio also launched its own website as part of ABC Online. PNN continued to provide Australian radio’s only coverage of the proceedings of Federal Parliament.

Triple J Broadcasting to 2.2 million listeners, Triple J provides young Australians with a balanced mix of innovative and accessible music together with information and news. The network has a particular emphasis on Australian music and the recording of new artists and aims to reflect, and contribute to, a sense of national identity for the emerging generation. Stage Two of Triple J’s regional expansion program was completed in December, bringing the network to 44 areas throughout regional Australia. Triple J had a major revamp of its line-up at the start of 1997 with a new breakfast program featuring Mikey Robins and former Doug Anthony Allstar and host of ABC Television’s Good News Week, Paul McDermott, and a new drive time show, The Ladies’ Lounge, featuring Helen Razer and Melbourne comedian Judith Lucy. The network focussed on a number of significant community events during the year, including NAIDOC Week, Reconciliation Week, World AIDS Day and World Environment Day, with a diverse range of programming, features and guest presenters. Triple J continued its strong support of the arts during the year, with programming initiatives centring on events such as the Melbourne Comedy Festival. The network maintained its commitment to Australian contemporary music with the broadcast of a minimum of 35 per cent Australian music performance, recording and live broadcast of Australian artists and the presentation of Australian Music Month in November. The Unearthed project discovers musical talent in regional areas Triple J’s Unearthed competition visits Coffs Harbour. Unearthed travelled throughout which do not normally fall under the music industry spotlight and Australia searching for Australia’s best highlights the lifestyles, stories and characters of regional centres. undiscovered talent. The project continued to be highly successful and is being well received by young people nationally. Fifteen new regional bands have been ‘unearthed’ by Triple J during the year, with the network also broadcasting to the nation from six regional centres, Perth and

35 Canberra as part of the initiative. Schedules are in place for Unearthed to continue well into 1998. Effective audience interaction and network promotion continued with Triple J’s Hottest 100 New Music Poll attracting over 250 000 entries and the Triple J World Wide Web Site receiving over 30 000 hits per week.

Radio Australia Radio Australia contributes a unique service to Australia by providing a long established and respected voice into Asia and the Pacific in English and other languages of the region. The role of Radio Australia was raised in independent reviews during the year. The Mansfield Review recommended that the requirement for the ABC to broadcast programs to audiences outside Australia should cease. In February, the Senate referred the matter of the role and future of Radio Australia and Australia Television to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee, which presented its report on 5 May. Significant cuts flagged to program production and transmission budgets for 1997–98 required the ABC to review and redefine Radio Australia’s role as an international broadcaster. In the May Budget statement, the Federal Government announced provision of a production budget of $4.7 million to provide English Language and Tok Pisin programming only. In order to maintain programs in Bahasha Indonesia, Standard Chinese, Khmer and Vietnamese, the ABC Board decided to provide an additional $1.6 million from its domestic budget allocation. The total budget of $6.3 million, previously $13.5 million, requires a reduction in staffing of more than half (to 68) and significant reductions in English and foreign language output. Reduced budget allocation for short-wave transmission (from $7 million to $2.5 million) is sufficient to operate the Shepparton transmitter site in Victoria, mainly directed to the Pacific, and two small transmitters at Brandon, Queensland, serving Papua New Guinea. The closure of the Cox Peninsula transmitter site near Darwin on 30 June 1997 severely downgraded Radio Australia’s coverage of Asia, particularly in Indochina, the Malaysia and Thailand. Programs and Services English Programs, News and Current Affairs A revised news and current affairs format was introduced in October which provided a mix of ten and five minute bulletins offering a choice of news on world, Australian, Asian and Pacific issues. A new current affairs program, Dateline, introduced in January, improved business and political coverage with more frequent live to air broadcasts On 30 June 1997, Radio Australia’s daily English output, combining the resources of News and Current Affairs and English Language units, was reduced from 24 to 18 hours on weekdays and 17 hours at weekends. However, the service maintained its 24 hour presence on short wave by relaying a greater proportion of Radio National programming.

36 Pacific national networks In response to a political crisis in Papua New Guinea, Tok Pisin broadcasts were expanded in March with a new one-hour morning broadcast on short-wave. This was to keep listeners informed of fast-moving developments, particularly with PNG’s own network experiencing serious breakdowns. Radio Australia’s service, supplementing an existing three-hour nightly broadcast, was retained in response to positive feedback from the region. On 27 June the French service, established in 1940, was closed due to budget reductions. South–East Asia The Executive Producers of the Vietnamese and Khmer Language Services conducted broadcast journalism training courses in Hanoi and Phnom Penh as part of the AusAID-funded ABC Mekong Regional Broadcasting Development Project. The Vietnamese Service represented Radio Australia at an inaugural Australian Trade and Cultural Exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City in January. The Indonesian Service provided live coverage of Indonesia’s national Parliamentary Elections in May for the Indonesian and English language broadcasts. In May, Thai rebroadcasts to local radio stations across Thailand ended and on 30 June, the Indonesian Service halved its live daily programming to two and a half hours due to budget reductions. North Asia A Radio Australia reporter was sent to China in March to cover the Australian Prime Minister’s visit. In April a member of the Cantonese service travelled to Hong Kong with the producer Hanh Tran (far right), Executive Producer, Radio Australia Vietnamese Service, with Aboriginal dance of Radio National’s weekly feature Indian Pacific to report on troupe outside the Australian Expo and Trade Show attitudes of Hong Kong people to the impending return of the held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in January. colony to China. The North Asia unit produced a special program of Australian music to mark Australia Day which was subsequently carried on China National Radio, Radio Tianjin and the Pearl River Economic Radio in Guangzhou. Distribution of the Chinese version of the Australian Music Show was expanded to 20 stations in China. On 29 June the Cantonese Service broadcast its final program and short wave broadcasts in Standard Chinese were reduced to two and a half hours of original material each day due to budget reductions. Future Directions In the wake of the budget cuts, Radio Australia is undertaking the challenge of re-defining and re-building itself. Utilising modern digital production facilities at the ABC’s Melbourne Southbank complex and substantially increased multi-skilling, Radio Australia’s staff continue to maintain a viable core service to Asia and the Pacific and beyond. It continued to produce an English

37 Language service, supplemented by the best of the ABC’s domestic radio information programs, 24 hours a day seven days a week, and services in Tok Pisin, Bahasa Indonesia, Vietnamese, Khmer and Standard Chinese. The ABC has asked the Federal Government to explore ways to re- open some transmitter capacity at the Cox Peninsula site, to re- establish its reach into Asia. Radio Australia is discussing initiatives with the tertiary education sector to develop educational programming for target markets in Asia. It is hoped this involvement will provide access to programming not otherwise available as well as funding for additional transmission time. Radio Australia is also looking at other avenues to attract new audiences by increasing its successful presence online with services in English and several Asian languages, and exploiting the availability of its programs to overseas re-broadcasters via the Palapa satellite which it shares with Australia Television. Some joint program initiatives are being followed up with cooperating radio stations, particularly in China. Audiences In October, Radio Australia and Australia Television co-funded audience studies in two cities of Indonesia through academics from the University of West Sydney and the Universities of Surabaya and Medan. Positive feedback was received from both cities. Data on audiences in four Indian States became available from the BBC World Service in May. It estimated an audience of 589 000 regular weekly listeners to Radio Australia’s English broadcasts. In April and May, the first ever survey of Cambodia was undertaken in collaboration with a number of other stations. Preliminary findings indicated a weekly audience of approximately 140 000 listeners to Radio Australia’s Khmer service as well as over 60 000 listening in English and a small number in other languages (Vietnamese and Chinese). In 1996, Radio Australia received 97 683 letters from listeners worldwide.

Australia Television Australia Television was established in 1993 as the ABC’s international television service. It provides English language programming reflecting Australia’s image, capabilities and perspectives, free-to- air via satellite, and through rebroadcast and cable networks to viewers in 33 countries and territories in Asia and the Pacific. All programs are Australian productions, sourced from the ABC, SBS, Australian commercial networks and independent producers, with Australia Television also producing specialist programs, including its highly acclaimed regional news. Funding for the service has been provided through Parliamentary appropriations, supplemented by revenue from sponsorships and sub-leasing of satellite transponder capacity. During January, the Mansfield Report recommended that Australia Television should be either sold or closed down.

38 The subsequent Senate Committee Inquiry into The Role and Future national networks of Radio Australia and Australia Television reported in May that the service is a success, should not be privatised and that government funding should be maintained. Programs and Services The year saw significant program changes on Australia Television. In August transmission hours changed from 12:00 – 03:30 to 09:00 – 01:00 (HK time). The eight hours of downtime, previously occupied by CNBC, was taken up in October by TVSN. News and Current Affairs programming from the ABC, SBS and international news agencies represents 34 per cent of total programming. Emphasis shifted to more live news and a greater proportion of non-ABC programs giving greater variety and depth. During daylight saving, Australia Television presented five live news bulletins each day. Access to the resources of the ABC, commercial networks, Optus Vision and numerous independent producers enables Australia Television to present the most extensive coverage of Australian sport seen on any one channel. The highlights of the sporting broadcasts were during September and October with all finals of AFL, ARL, NBL, Rugby Union, Water Polo, WNBL, Ice Hockey, Table Tennis, SANFL, VFL, WAFL and Superbikes. There was extensive coverage of the Melbourne Cup in November and the Sydney to Hobart yacht race on Boxing Day. Other sports regularly shown on Australia Television were various motor racing events including the full Auscar/Nascar series, ARL State of Origin matches and full ‘A’ league Soccer season including most Socceroo Internationals. Australia Television launched its Independently produced programs introduced to the line-up this website in August. year included The Great Outdoors, Healthy Wealthy and Wise and Rex Hunt’s Fishing World. World of Style, produced specifically for Australia Television, showcased the Australian fashion industry. Here’s Humphrey appeared for the first time, supplementing an already strong children’s program line-up. Programs produced by Australia Television included a nine part series called Australia on a Plate, on Australian cuisine, restaurants and wineries which debuted in January 1997. The 1997 International Business Asia Awards were covered by Australia Television with news presenter Rosemary Church. Stan Coster: An Era Has Ended, a tribute to a great Australian songwriter was broadcast exclusively on Australia Television. The Asia Focus program interviewed important visitors from Asia and the Pacific.

39 Specials included the Prime Minister’s address to the Asia Society and the Deputy Prime Minister’s address to Business Asia. In association with AusAID and the Papua New Guinea Government, Australia Television presented Lakautim Bus — the case for better forest management in Papua New Guinea. On 14 February, Australia Television and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School presented World Telly, a live one hour cultural exchange between young people in Australia and Fiji. Audiences In 1996 the service migrated to the new generation Palapa C2 satellite which increased coverage to reach from India to Western Samoa and Beijing to the north. The audience base increased with 40 new rebroadcast agreements signed in the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Taiwan, India, Indonesia and the Pacific. Australia Television is now carried on over 500 cable networks. Through rebroadcast agreements, Australia Television is now available, either as a full or partial service, to subscribers in 33 countries and territories compared to ten in 1996. Availability in hotels also increased, from 300 hotels last year to 500 hotels in 1997. Asia-based cruise operator, Star Cruises has made Australia Television’s service available to guests on its six ships. The year also saw Australia Television’s program guide published in an increasing number of local language and English magazines and newspapers. Viewers are now also able to receive fortnightly programming via e-mail. Program information, updated daily, is also available by accessing a fax poll service. Future Directions In early July 1997 it was announced that the Seven Network will purchase the ordinary shares in Australia Television International Pty Limited. The Seven Network has guaranteed to maintain a quality Australian content-based service of 16 hours a day for at least the next four and a half years. The Seven Network will contract the ABC to provide the same News and Current Affairs and general programming currently provided to Australia Television. It will add its own catalogue of programming to the service. The new arrangements will come into effect on 1 August 1997.

ABC Multimedia ABC Multimedia manages the ABC Online network, which includes The Lab (the new science online service) and the Online News service. ABC Multimedia is also responsible for the infrastructure and policy development of the ABC’s multimedia activities and for the management of a range of multimedia projects. A major highlight of the year was the relaunch of ABC Online in August. This event confirmed the ABC’s newest network as an integral and central part of the Corporation’s output and marked a year of operation. The event was designed to highlight the range of content available on the service and to raise the profile of ABC Online.

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Over the last twelve months, requests for information from ABC Online rose from approximately 125 000 to as many as 600 000 The Lab is the web site of ABC Science Online, a accesses per week. unit which was created in early 1997 under a three-year special purpose Grant from the An important innovation unveiled at the August launch was the Department of Industry, Science and Tourism. Explore Your Interests section of ABC Online. Explore Your Interests The Lab: www.abc.net.au/science has been designed to interpret and package the massive amount of material available on the Internet specifically for Australian audiences. Also featured at the launch was the popular ABC Online News service. By June, the Online News service was accessed approximately 100 000 times each week. An enhanced version of this service is being developed for launch later in 1997. Another major focus for ABC Multimedia this year has been the development of online ‘gateways’. The objective is to provide a means of packaging and presenting the ABC’s online content in a manner that is relevant and compelling to different audience groups or subject interests. The ‘gateways’ will complement the existing structure of ABC Online consisting of over 50 program or network web sites. The first of these gateways to go into production was The Lab, the ABC’s online gateway to science. The Lab was made possible by a three year grant from the Federal Government announced in November. Production commenced in March and preparations were underway for launch in July 1997. ABC Multimedia has been actively pursuing opportunities to develop online services through co-production arrangements or other collaborative relationships. Projects made possible by co-funding arrangements in 1996–97 were Frontier Online (with the Council for

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Aboriginal Reconciliation) and Tourism Online, a pilot co-production with Open Learning Australia involving a radio and online cross- media production. Frontier Online was an initiative linked to the acclaimed television documentary series Frontier. Frontier Online provided a unique opportunity for the program-makers, the audience and an expert panel to debate issues raised in the television series through a ‘live’ online discussion. The Frontier Online forums produced a high standard of public discussion. Software especially created for the project will be further developed and used for other audience forums on ABC Online. ABC Multimedia continued to coordinate the development of multimedia resources designed to add value to existing ABC products and services. New online presentations were set up for a range of locally-produced ABC programs, and existing sites were continually updated and improved. Popular new presentations included web pages for What’s Your Poison (a series of Quantum specials), Songlines from the Indigenous Programs Unit, and Timeframe. A Frontier CD-ROM was released and production continued on three CD-ROMs funded under theFederal Government’s Australia on CD initiative: Real Wild Child, Ingenious and Tales from the Kangaroo’s Crypt. These titles will be released commercially next year. Following the closure of ABC Enterprises’ New Media department in June, agreement was reached on a relationship between ABC Enterprises and ABC Multimedia to facilitate the ABC’s continuing involvement in this area. A number of activities were designed to strengthen the infrastructure for the Corporation’s participation in multimedia. These included implementing new operational arrangements for the hosting of ABC Online, developing the capabilities for the ABC to commence testing streaming audio on the Internet and the incorporation of ABC Multimedia requirements into the planning for capital works.

42 ABC Multimedia identified and facilitated training opportunities for national networks web developers and graphic artists within the ABC, and investigated collaborative training options involving the AFTRS, RMIT and several Co-operative Multimedia Centres. An ABC Web Developers’ Conference was held in Sydney in November and provided an important opportunity to share skills and to discuss future directions. Other collaborative projects undertaken included the use of the Optus Cable Modem Trial to test a broadband version of the Behind the News website (streaming video to selected schools), and involvement in a research project with the CSIRO and its partners whereby a prototype film and video archiving system known as ‘FRANK’ was tested by ABC Television Archives. Planning has also commenced for the establishment of ‘push’ channels for ABC online content.

I consider that the ABC should explore ways of disseminating information more widely and become more focused on the need to interact with its audience. The ABC’s online service is a good start in this direction and the specialist broadcasting areas of the ABC lend themselves well to this additional channel of distribution.’

Bob Mansfield, The challenge of a better ABC Volume 1: A review of the role and functions of the ABC

43 program production In December, the ABC Board endorsed a new organisational structure which resulted in the establishment of Program Production – a production house to create and produce commissioned programs, other than News and Current Affairs, to satisfy broadcast schedules. The establishment of this portfolio with its Head being a member of the Executive was a clear reflection of key One ABC principles – production of content as a core ABC business and program led management. Sue Spencer agreed to act in the new position of Head of Program Production from December until a permanent appointment could be made. Don Reynolds was appointed in June.

Programs and Services The new portfolio brought together, in the first instance, television program production departments and relevant parts of the Sydney and Melbourne branches. This has enabled Program Production to meet the commissioning needs of National Networks and to provide production resources to other ABC output portfolios and external producers. The portfolio has two main components. The first is the production Callan Mulvey and Nina Liu with crew on the skate competition set for Heartbreak arm with responsibility for production of drama, comedy, education, High. science, sport (events), arts, entertainment, music, youth, children’s, documentaries, specials, religion, business, natural

44 history and indigenous programs. program production The second is the production resources arm with responsibility for resources in Sydney and Melbourne. Production resource services include production operations, production services, production facilities, technical services, research services and library services. In addition, the portfolio’s transmission resource services provide master control operations for production and transmission of ABC Television in New South Wales. Staff One of the major tasks in 1997 was to separate production staff and facilities for general programs (i.e. to form part of Program Production) from staff and facilities dedicated to the production of News and Current Affairs programs. By June, the two portfolios had reached agreement on the movement The Wiggles make an appearance on the set of of categories of staff and facilities. Childrens Hospital, an ABC Like other portfolios, Program Production must reduce the number Drama production. of staff due to budget cuts. One in four of the 1200 staff will leave. This reduction is being addressed in such a way as to maintain a skills base appropriate to the needs of the Corporation. Facilities Program Production is reassessing facilities and the extent of upgrading required to meet the challenges and opportunities of digital production and transmission. Funding The funding arrangements of the former Television Division applied to Program Production in 1996–97 and will continue to do so in 1997–98. From 1998-99 on, funding will be vested with Regional Services and National Networks who will commission Program Production and News and Current Affairs to provide the programs they require for their schedules. Independent producers will have the opportunity to compete with Program Production for a proportion of the general program commissions.

Future Directions Program Production’s priorities are to manage the necessary staff reductions, upgrade facilities, improve production processes, develop effective relationships with program and production resource customers and expand relationships with co-production partners, while producing valued programs. To achieve this a business plan will be developed which sets out the basis for sustainable production hours which contribute to the diversity of ABC programs.

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Enterprises accured profit ABC Enterprises extends the role of the ABC by licensing or $ millions producing, marketing and retailing quality consumer products which 10 relate to ABC programming and services. These activities assist in fostering and developing Australian talent and creativity and make a valuable financial contribution to the Corporation. 8 In 1996–97 ABC Enterprises more than doubled its financial return to the Corporation. All production areas performed strongly and 6 achieved above budget trading results. Poor trading generally in the retail industry began to have an 4 impact on ABC Shops in the second half of the financial year.

2 Products and Services Over 560 products related to ABC programming activities were 0 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 released and a total of 78 awards were won — 42 for creative excellence and 36 for business performance (see appendix 8) Enterprises cash contribution to ABC Retail $ millions Two new ABC Shops were opened in 1996–97 bringing the total to 10 26, and several shops were refurbished. The installation of electronic systems to replace manual methods of stocktaking and processing stock has increased efficiency and reduced costs. At the 8 end of June there were 96 ABC Centres in suburbs and rural towns throughout Australia. 6 ABC Retail has a number of sales peaks each year; two ABC for Kids months, Mothers Day, two Sales, Fathers Day and Christmas. 4 Catalogues are distributed for most of these events, generating shop sales as well as a high volume of home deliveries through a 1300 telephone service. Orders may also be placed through electronic 2 mail on the ABC Shops World Wide Web site.

0 Books 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 Books were published on a variety of subjects such as cricket, Enterprises revenue gardening and cooking, children’s favourites Play School, Bananas in Pyjamas, and educational series Sing. Books associated with programming activities included Les Hiddins’ Bush Tucker Man: Stories of Exploration and Survival, and the 1996 Boyer Lectures, Pierre Ryckman’s The View from the Bridge. Of the 55 books released in 1996–97, 49 (89 per cent) were by Australian authors. Audio ABC Audio produces Australian works, provides a showcase for Australian writers and actors and is the Australian distributor for the BBC Radio catalogue. The 121 Audio titles in 1996–97 included spoken word versions of Tim Classical Music 1% Winton’s Cloudstreet, David Malouf’s Johnno and Patrick White’s Voss. Licensing 11% Other releases included popular radio characters such as Triple J’s Video 13% Sandman performing This is My Surfboard, a collection of Stephanie Contemporary Music 8% Dowrick’s commentaries from Family Matters and an audio cassette of Audio 3% the 1996 Boyer Lectures. Trade Publishing 7% Retail Sales and Marketing 57%

46 Video enterprises ABC Video is the largest producer of videos in Australia and is video distributor for Film Australia, Opera Australia, the Australian Ballet, the BBC and many independent producers. The best seller of ABC Video’s 129 releases for the year was The Wiggles Wake up Jeff , selling in excess of 217 000 copies. Four of the top ten music videos on the ARIA charts in June were ABC Video titles – two Wiggles titles, Wild Rhapsody and Floral Suite. Television programs were the source of videos such as The Problem with Men, A River Somewhere, the ballet The Merry Widow, and the opera Nabucco. Contemporary Music Highlight of the year for ABC Contemporary Music was ABC Country music artists winning ten of the top awards at the Tamworth Country Music Festival. The Wiggles Wake up Jeff won an ARIA award for Best Children’s Album (see appendix 8). Contemporary Music released 58 titles for the year in the categories of Country, Jazz, Children’s and Contemporary, with 96.5 per cent of the releases by Australian artists. These included a CD featuring music from the television program Songlines and a collection of music from the Top End, Meinmuk. Best seller of the year was the Triple J Hottest 100 Volume 3 with over 170 500 units sold. Music Publishing The success of Kookaburra who stole the moon at the Scottish Children’s Festival and international representation of the musical work Bananas in The Sun Music collection was performed by Pyjamas were the highlights of the year. ABC Music Publishing Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, David Porcelijn, Conductor. The illustration Sun continues to acquire rights in music used on ABC television and Music by John Coburn (1989) was radio as well as being well represented in releases through ABC commissioned by Boosey and Hawkes to celebrate the 60th birthday of composer Peter Music. Sculthorpe. Classics ABC Classics released 28 new titles, 93 per cent being Australian compositions and/or performances. Titles included the highly acclaimed Sun Music, a Peter Sculthorpe collection performed by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. In addition to winning an ARIA award for Best Australian Classical Recording, ABC Classics won two Gold records, for Yvonne Kenny’s Simple Gifts and Swoon. Swoon 2 quickly rose to the top of the ARIA classical charts and after its release, sales of the original Swoon collection also rose, bringing it to second place on the charts. The two albums remained at number one and two in the ARIA classical charts for 12 weeks. The Swoon albums were produced in collaboration with ABC Classic FM.

47 Magazine Publishing Publication of J Mag and a number of children’s magazines was discontinued during 1996–97. Magazines such as Consuming Passions and the ABC Cricket Book are continuing. New Media Six CD-ROMs were released. Ingenious, Tales from the Kangaroo’s Crypt, Australia Through Time and Real Wild Child were developed as part of the On Australia project. Bush Tucker Man and Frontier were created from ABC television programs. Future CD–ROM projects will be managed through ABC Licensing. Licensing ABC Licensing is the business unit of ABC Enterprises responsible for the Bananas in Pyjamas domestic and international licensing program. Corporate logos are licensed to third parties for the creation of products such as clothing, toys, games, dinnerware, nursery goods, manchester and stationery. All products are subject to rigorous product approval processes. Products manufactured under licence include Triple J, Club Buggery and Heartbreak High apparel, Play School and other children’s ancillary product. Bananas in Pyjamas merchandise has now been released in eighteen countries by over 200 licensees, with another ten countries launching products in the coming year. In Australia 50 licensees release approximately 200 Bananas in Pyjamas and Play School products or ranges of merchandise each year. ABC for Kids The ABC for Kids logo is used to identify the range of children’s books, music, videos and ancillary product as well as touring concerts which feature characters from children’s television programs. The range is being further developed with the addition of new children’s programs and performers. Sales & Distribution In additional to selling ABC products in ABC Shops, Centres and in traditional retail stores, Enterprises has been developing other distribution methods. Sales of bulk orders of products to book clubs and other specialised networks increased significantly. ‘It was generally recognised that activities such as ABC shops provide a means of extending the ABC’s relationship with its audience and at the same time, generate useful additional revenue for the ABC.’

Bob Mansfield, The challenge of a better ABC Volume 1: A review of the role and functions of the ABC 48 concerts concerts

The close of the financial year and the commencement of the new year saw moments of great historical significance for the ABC’s six orchestras. On 30 June, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Pty Ltd was launched by South Australian Minister for the Arts, the Hon. Diana Laidlaw. On the following morning, Victoria’s Premier and Minister for the Arts, the Hon. Jeff Kennett, launched the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s new corporate identity. Both orchestras followed the example of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, incorporated in early 1996, in forming as independent subsidiary companies wholly-owned by the ABC. A new company, Symphony Australia Holdings Pty Ltd, was launched in Sydney on 4 July 1997 by the Commonwealth Minister for the Arts, Senator Richard Alston. From 1 July 1997, the new company takes over the functions of the former ABC Concerts Division, providing national programs and services for the whole orchestral network. The other ABC orchestras in Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland will become ABC subsidiary companies within three years, but until then, remain part of the Symphony Australia company. The launches were the culmination of an intense planning and logistical effort during the first six months of 1997, in which many new administrative systems were developed, including payroll and information technology, enabling the orchestras to operate with greater autonomy. Corporatisation is the culmination of a long debate, going back over almost twenty years, about the orchestras’ relationship to the ABC. In December, the ABC, the Commonwealth Government and the six State governments agreed upon the new subsidiary company arrangement as a means of providing the orchestras with significant independence, while retaining continuing relationships to the ABC and a strong identity as an orchestral network.

Programs and Services

Concert Performances Budding cellist for the Queensland The concert activity of the orchestras encompasses the many forms Symphony Orchestra. and genres of orchestral music, from classical to contemporary. At one end of the spectrum, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) opened 1997 with three highly successful projects in popular vein, performing with singer Shirley Bassey in spectacular outdoor concerts in WA and SA; supporting Split Enz in their national ‘ENZSO’ tour; and collaborating in Adelaide’s WOMAD festival of World Music. The ASO also explored the music of the contemporary avant garde in

49 Violinist Michael Johnson in Hobart its East-West Festival initiative under Chief Conductor David during filming for ABC Television’s Porcelijn. The Festival program was a new component in the Mother Goose orchestra’s substantially revamped packaging of all its annual concert series. In his new position as Chief Conductor of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (TSO), David Porcelijn directed the orchestra in a strong program of contemporary music by Australian and overseas composers in a new series of Music of the 20th Century. The Festival of Perth provided the opportunity for the West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO) to perform with the famous percussionist Evelyn Glennie. Other performance highlights reflected the specialist expertise of Chief Conductor Vernon Handley in Vaughan Williams’ Fourth Symphony and Principal Guest Conductor Vladimir Verbitsky in Prokofiev’s Sixth and Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphonies. The Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO) headlined its 1997 season with a concert performance of Wagner’s Die Walküre under Chief Conductor Edo de Waart. Other major performances included the Australian premiere of Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony conducted by Mark Elder and the visit by the great international conductor Lorin Maazel, in a program featuring Mahler’s Fifth Symphony,

50 simulcast from the Brisbane Biennial Festival across Australia on concerts ABC Television and ABC Classic FM. Concert attendances The Melbourne Symphony (MSO), conducted by Simone Young, gave Attendances ('000s) the Australian premiere of Strauss’s Die Frau Ohne Schatten, the 1200 highlight production of the 1996 Melbourne Festival, and also performed with the Three Tenors in their only Australian concert. 1000 The appointment of Markus Stenz as the orchestra’s new Chief Conductor, provides an exciting future direction and has focussed 800 international interest on the orchestra. The Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO) featured prominently in 600 the Brisbane Biennial Festival of Music in May/June, giving the Australian premiere performance of the Korngold opera Die Tôte 400 Stadt, and presenting the centre-piece concert of the Festival’s Composers’ Week, featuring works by Nigel Westlake and Carl Vine, 200 conducted by the composers. 0 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 Access and development Paid The orchestras maintain active programs to encourage young Free Schools Australian instrumentalists, vocalists and conductors, and provide opportunities for Australian composers. The range of the orchestras’ development programs is now detailed in the Symphony Australia Handbook. Flautist Andrew Day was nominated 1996 Young Performer of the Concerts Year for his performance of the Nielsen Flute Concerto in the Young No. of concerts

Performers Awards Grand Final with the MSO conducted by Michael 800 Halasz. Leif Sundstrup was named 1996 Young Conductor of the Year following the Conductors Mastercourse led by Professor Noam 700

Sherriff working with the MSO. 600 In 1996, the WASO and QSO completed composer residencies with Roger Smalley and Nigel Sabin respectively. Sixteen new works were 500 commissioned under a substantially revamped commissioning 400 program, supported by the Australia Council. 300 Each orchestra tours within its State, bringing professional musical performances to country areas. In 1996, the QSO again undertook 200 its renowned annual train tour to regional centres in the State, 100 under international conductor En Shao. The WASO travelled to the far north of their state to give performances in Port Hedland, 0 Karratha and Broome, covering 6000 kilometres in three days. The 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 WASO also expanded the range of its access activities through the Free Schools Paid work of its new Education Chamber Orchestra, which also recorded its first CD for ABC Enterprises with presenter Benita Collings. International Touring, Recording and Broadcast The orchestras reach national and international audiences through their numerous touring and recording projects, as well as broadcasts through ABC Classic FM. The ASO undertook its first international tour in 1996, visiting Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and China. The orchestra’s concert in Beijing under Chief Conductor David Porcelijn was simulcast to a huge audience on Chinese television and radio. Shortly after the ASO’s tour, the SSO toured Japan, performing under Chief Conductor Edo de Waart before the Japanese Crown Prince and Princess in a concert featuring a work by Australian

51 composer G.J. Koehne, recorded and televised by the Japanese public broadcaster NHK. The growing international recognition of the ABC Classics recording label is strongly supported by the orchestras. In 1996–97, the SSO released three major recordings with Edo de Waart of works by Takemitsu, Schoenberg, Sculthorpe and Vine. The ASO released an important recording of the Sun Music West Australian Symphony Orchestra’s Education series of Peter Sculthorpe, complemented by the TSO’s recording of Chamber Orchestra. Back row, from left: Jane Geeson, Michael Waye, Sean Priest, Prue Ashurst the composer’s works for small orchestra. (Coordinator), John Ford, Oliver McAslan, Jim The TSO collaborated with ABC Television to produce a well-received Mann, Tim White. Middle row: Lorna Cook, Christine Reitzenstein, Rachael Kirk, Jane Atkinson, documentary on the Mother Goose Suite of Maurice Ravel, Anne Henderson, Cameron Broo. Seated: Leanne investigating this central work of twentieth century repertoire Glover and Bill Stewart. through the eyes of international conductor and pianist, Howard Shelley. The ABC Board has backed this decision by Audiences The efforts of the orchestras to attract new and younger audiences agreeing to transfer the through new programming and marketing strategies have been outstandingly successful. current allocation of $32 In 1997 the WASO introduced a ‘Classic Attitude’ club for younger concert goers, based on the highly successful model developed by million to the orchestras. the MSO, to a strong response. Two new concert series were also introduced by the WASO: Encounter, appealing to listeners under This is a generous and 35, and Morning Symphony, providing for the needs and tastes of older audiences. Each of the orchestras pays great attention to the life-style patterns and needs of audiences, presenting concert series far-sighted decision by the at appropriate times and frequency. The introduction of Internet websites by the WASO and the ASO also ABC Board. It means that points to a new direction in the marketing of orchestral music. States and local Resource Management communities can start to In their preparation for corporatisation, the orchestras focused attention on the development of long-range plans for their future, take increased based upon individual three-year budget forecasts. Significant attention has also been given to the provision of responsibility for the national services and programs through Symphony Australia as effectively and efficiently as possible. future development of These planning and review processes have ensured that the orchestras are now securely positioned and operating at a scale orchestras from a sound appropriate to available income. In 1996–97, several of the orchestras, especially those in the larger States, improved the levels financial base.’ of income derived from box office and corporate sponsorships.

52 concerts Future Directions The new structure for the orchestral network and the process of corporatisating each of the orchestras represent some of the most significant changes in their history. The process will take up to three years to complete, affecting nearly every aspect of the operations of the orchestras. It is widely agreed that the new structure will provide opportunities for the orchestras to establish stronger relationships with the communities they serve. This is reflected in the membership of the Boards appointed by the ABC to manage the new orchestral The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra with Chief companies, which provide a mix of expertise and ties to local Conductor and Artistic Adviser, David Porcelijn. infrastructure, including State Governments. The Boards will play a Photo: Peter Whyte vital role in assisting the orchestras to manage the new level of self-government and responsibility which corporatisation entails. Over the next three years, the orchestras in Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland will lay the ground-work for their own independent incorporation. From 1 July 1997 Commonwealth funding for the orchestras is to be provided through the Department of Communications and the Arts, not through the ABC budget appropriation. This Commonwealth funding will be maintained and indexed for inflation, providing essential financial security. Nevertheless, the future development of the orchestras will depend significantly on their ability to open up new markets and extend their audience base.

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53 resourceshuman As a result of the One ABC restructure and the recommendations of the Business Support Review, service functions that directly relate to the management of the work force have been consolidated into one Corporation-wide service. The Human Resource portfolio has responsibility for: • Human Resource Policy; • Training and Development; • Employee Relations; • Equal Employment Opportunity; • Occupational Health and Safety; and • Remuneration and Payroll. The restructuring of these services has resulted in immediate savings through streamlining processes, removing duplication and amalgamating the different Human Resource departments that previously reported directly to individual Divisions. Every State branch of the ABC has dedicated professional Human Resources support located on site and specialist expertise is spread across the States. In February two project teams were established to implement recommendations of the Business Support Review. The process re- engineering project team is working on a number of initiatives designed to improve the effectiveness of current people management systems. Major projects include: • Reward and Remuneration; • Leadership and Management; • Managing Workforce Requirements; • Developing Skills and Performance; and • Conflict Management. This work is directly linked to the work of the Human Resources project team and involves the implementation of a new Human Resource Management Information System which will further enhance efficiency and workforce planning and management within the ABC.

Employee Relations With the budgetary restrictions announced by the Government, the ABC commenced its planning for the downsizing of staffing consistent with the ABC Enterprise Agreement 1996–98. This agreement, certified by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, provided the framework by which considerable organisation change would occur within the ABC concurrent with reductions in staffing and services. The principal aim of the Enterprise Agreement is to encourage work force stability and provide direction to staff in light of uncertainty

54 about work and job security. It also provides ABC management with human resources an agreed framework to work in partnership with its unions — the CPSU, MEAA and APESMA — to implement change, rather than divert energy to resolving industrial conflict. Employee Relations, as part of the Human Resources portfolio, was one of the first departmental amalgamations under the One ABC concept from the former Television and Radio Divisional structures. A Work force Planning Unit (WPU) was established in July to manage the significant downsizing resulting from restructuring. Besides overseeing the process of redundancies, the WPU has been building a skills database to assist in redeployment, retraining and in developing a more strategic approach to work force planning.

Equal Employment Opportunity Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) has continued to be ABC policy since its adoption in 1980. Action programs have been developed and implemented since 1988. In December the EEO Annual Report on implementation of the 1993-97 EEO program was presented to Parliament. The program was extended a further year from its previous end date of 1996 due to the reshaping process being undertaken by the ABC. Progress against targets included: • 29 per cent women in Senior Executive positions (target 35 per cent); • 14.9 per cent staff of non-English speaking background (target 18 per cent); • 1.1 per cent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff (target 2 per cent); and • 2.4 per cent staff with disabilities (target 5 per cent). Major activities this year included: • development and implementation of the ABC’s Disability Action Plan required under the Commonwealth Disability Strategy. The plan was forwarded to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in January. It sets a target of five per cent for staff Andrew Dolberg and Vince Maher from the with disabilities and other objectives and strategies with Perth mailroom. appropriate monitoring and evaluation processes; • completion of training for Workplace Harassment Contact Officers, management seminars and provision of information to all staff about the policy on prevention of workplace harassment; • implementation of strategies to encourage women to enter and retain management positions, including the completion of pilot mentoring programs, participation in discussion and network groups and the provision of developmental programs; • provision of initiatives to support and

55 staff profile 1996–97

ABC Staff 1987–1997 Staff by Gender

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Concerts TV Production & Transmission

*includes Enterprises, program support, Information Technology and Administrrative staff

For detailed statistics see Appendix 4

56 encourage women in engineering with scholarships and the human resources Macquarie University Young Women in Physics Program; • cultural diversity and cross-cultural awareness training; and • collation and distribution of information on English language improvement opportunities.

Occupational Health and Safety The Occupational Health and Safety Unit (OH&S) provides an advisory and consultancy service to the Corporation on occupational health and safety, workers compensation and rehabilitation case management. Projects included: • implementation of a national Employee Assistance Program; • upgrade of the Corporation’s occupational health and safety and workers compensation claims management information system; • re-accreditation by Comcare Australia of the ABC Health and Safety Representatives Course; • pilot project to reduce the risks associated with field work in ABC Television in Queensland; • training courses for health and safety representatives; and • internal OH&S audit of the ABC’s Hobart facility. There were 297 OH&S incidents reported during the year. Twenty two incidents were reported to Comcare Australia under Section 68 of the Occupational Health and Safety (Commonwealth Employment) Act 1991. There were 178 claims for worker’s compensation claims accepted by Comcare Australia costing approximately $413 086.

Staff Development The ABC continues to support its production and administrative functions through a wide range of in-house training and development activities. These include classroom-based training, on-the-job training, craft skills forums, coaching and mentoring, facilitation of work place- based discussions, the administration of traineeships, seminars, placements and a variety of other activities. ABC trainers are also called on to provide training externally in Australia and overseas. External trainers and training organisations are occasionally used to assist with training, mostly in non-broadcasting areas. The adoption of the One ABC management structure resulted in the former Radio and Television Training units merging as ABC Training and Development towards the end of the year. ABC Training and Development is providing support services while the ABC undergoes major changes in broadcasting, management and technology. The former ABC Radio Training unit won the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association’s top award for Effectiveness in Training, for its training package on field editing for radio journalists. The former NSW Television Training unit won a prize in the same competition for its single-camera operation course.

57 finance and business services

As part of the One ABC restructuring process all financial management, accounting, procurement and property management services across the Corporation were consolidated. These functions were brought together with the Legal and Copyright and Information Technology departments to form the Finance and Business Services portfolio which provides support services to all portfolios. The Corporation’s financial management, procurement and accounting services functions are central to the re-engineering of business support which is taking place over the next two years. The complete structure for these functions will not be resolved until new processes are designed and new enabling technologies introduced. Finance and Business Services provided professional financial and business services management advice and support to the Corporation. In addition, the portfolio assisted with several major initiatives including the incorporation of the ABC Melbourne and Adelaide symphony orchestras and Symphony Australia, the Senate inquiry into international broadcasting and the sale of Australia Television. Advice and assistance covered legal, financial, property and technology issues associated with these initiatives. The renegotiation of the Corporation’s triennial funding arrangement with the Commonwealth was undertaken in the context of the previously announced cuts to base funding. Finance and Business Services also completed a number of specific projects associated with the reshaping strategy: • the Business Support Review (BSR), a major review of business support services to identify priority areas for re-engineering. With the involvement of representatives of output areas and ABC practitioners, the BSR identified savings of $5.4 million per annum achievable with new finance, accounting, procurement and property management processes and the use of new technology; • an Information Technology (IT) review based on an independent assessment and stakeholder consultation. It identified a range of principles and strategies for more cost-effective and responsive management IT function; • a review of the Corporation’s asset portfolio identified surplus or under-utilised property assets estimated value of $14 million – the revenues from which will be put towards investment in new digital technology; • development of a strategy for the rationalisation of accommodation and collocation of News and Current Affairs at

58 Collinswood South Australia; finance and business services • restructuring of financial management information to reflect the new One ABC portfolio structure; • identification of savings of $870 000 as part of a review of communications expenditures – the review also noted additional savings of $130 000 can be expected to be achieved following deregulation; and • a trial of electronic purchasing systems estimated to generate significant savings in the ABC’s procurement functions. As part of the portfolio’s ongoing support services, FBS: • managed the construction of new studios at Wodonga to replace the old facilities at Albury; • completed the Corporation’s 1995–96 financial statements, which were unqualified by the Australian National Audit Office; • developed and implemented a new computerised system for television transmission planning, scheduling and library and improved the reliability of hardware and software for the ABC’s News and Current Affairs systems; and • successfully defended or settled a number of defamation proceedings, including the Bellino v ABC retrial, Bailey v ABC and Mitchell v ABC.

Information Technology Services A Review of Information Technology was undertaken which required substantial input from the staff and management of the department. The recommendations of the Review were approved by the Board in April and will be progressively implemented. A new group, Information Technology Services (ITS), will give emphasis to the development of operational and security standards and will work closely with the new Technology Strategy and Development portfolio on both standards and technology strategy for the Corporation. Aside from the review, ITS was involved in a number of initiatives: • working with Television, new systems for television transmission planning, scheduling Roy and HG, ready to ‘help’ with the and library systems were restucturing! implemented and the reliability of News and Current Affairs systems improved; • development of Intranet services to enable the ABC to take advantage of Web technology for

59 publishing and distributing information both internally and externally; and • installation of optical fibre backbones and new switching equipment into all major city sites as part of the ongoing upgrade of the Corporation’s network infrastructure.

Legal & Copyright Services The Legal and Copyright department continued to provide a full range of legal advice, representation and assistance to the Corporation, including 24 hour advice to program makers. A number of defamation proceedings were successfully defended or settled. This year Legal and Copyright Services was involved in complex commercial contracting matters such as the sale of Australia Television. The department was also involved in issues such as news coverage of the Atlanta Olympics based on ‘fair dealing’ provisions of the Copyright Act, amendments submitted to the Senate Committee in relation to Telecommunications Bills and the legal and copyright aspects of online projects.

Property Management A review by the Asset Portfolio Working Group resulted in steps towards a Total Asset Management Plan for the Corporation and linkage between the Corporation’s asset portfolio and major investment in technology. The review identified surplus and under-utilised assets for disposal or rationalisation which it is estimated will generate $14 million for investment in new technology. The actions approved by the Board in December are being progressively implemented, with the first asset realisation, a vacant site in Kununurra Western Australia, in May. Significant work on marketing strategies for Broadcast House in Melbourne, a disused property, and the Frenchs Forest studios in Sydney was undertaken. A study of the Collinswood South Australia building was undertaken in order to rationalise the site and develop a ten-year maintenance plan. Connection of Ripponlea and Southbank to the National Electricity Grid generated savings of 11 per cent in energy costs. Essential safety and emergency power services were effected at Gore Hill and Ultimo. As part of a five year plan for regional properties, improvements were carried out at the Muswellbrook and Tamworth premises and new studios were constructed at Wodonga from savings achieved by relocating from Albury.

60 finance and business services Finance The Finance group includes the Corporate Treasury, Accounting Operations, Administration and Supply and Procurement groups. These functions are the subject of the Business Support Review which reported to the Board in February. The review submitted a detailed business case on which, with other support services, savings equating to some $8 million per annum over the next three years are expected to be achieved through re-engineering of business support processes and the use of new technologies. Implementation is underway. Initiatives that did not require new enabling technology were implemented during the year. ABC Federal and NSW finance areas were merged to eliminate duplication and consolidate all financial processing areas. The overall level of staff skills was increased through a specific departmental training strategy. The former Accounts Payable areas in Television and Radio were merged in February-March, providing the basis for further rationalisation of processes and staffing provisions. The Finance areas have contributed significantly to the establishment of the new portfolio structures through projects such as the establishment of a new General Ledger based on the One ABC structure.

61 technology strategy & development

The Technology Strategy & Development (TS&D) portfolio provides the ABC with the opportunity to plan and coordinate the technical environment across the Corporation. This ensures that efficient and cost-effective technology can be introduced in an integrated manner for use in the production and delivery of quality services to audiences of all media. This approach recognises the growing convergence of broadcasting, communications and computing. The need for the ABC to respond to the revolution occurring in broadcasting and communications technology was highlighted in the Mansfield Review. The Review recognised that the ABC needs to achieve the efficient and creative benefits of digitisation through a significant investment in new technology based on centralised strategic planning. Over time, the ABC will adopt digital technology in a strategic manner in order to maintain its position as a creative mainstream broadcaster in a rapidly changing broadcasting industry. The major functions of TS&D are primarily strategic, facilitating the development of a total technology strategy, technology capital budgets and technical policies applicable across the Corporation. The portfolio also has overall management of major central technology systems and internal digital transmission and program distribution networks.

Review of Operations Transmission facilities The ABC does not own or operate the transmitters which carry its domestic television and radio and international radio programs. They are currently operated by the National Transmission Agency (NTA). The Federal Government has indicated that this situation will change in the future, with the ABC being provided with funding for transmission and the NTA transmitter network being sold. Following significant outages in transmission due to major storms in North Queensland and the Sydney area during the summer of 1996–97, an ABC–NTA Working Group was established to develop strategies to improve reliability of transmission systems in severe storms and cyclones. Analysis of critical paths and delivery systems both within the ABC and those that interact with the NTA resulted in the development of improved policies and procedures, as well as the upgrading of some program transmission systems. During the year, the NTA established 35 new radio transmitters for the ABC. These include twelve for Radio National and eleven for Triple J, including 2 self-help services. This brings to 673 the total number of transmitters carrying ABC radio programs. There are currently 627 transmitters broadcasting ABC Television programs,

62 with the NTA establishing 13 new television transmitters this year. technology strategy and development Remote Area Broadcasting Services TS&D provided strategic advice to assist the ABC’s contract negotiations for the introduction of a new digital satellite delivery platform for the Remote Area Broadcast Services (RABS). This should allow for a cost-efficient digital platform for delivery of the ABC’s radio and television services to remote listeners and viewers. The ABC chaired the industry technology group that sought to ensure that existing levels of service to remote areas are retained. Digital production equipment A trial of digital broadcast audio equipment for Regional Radio stations commenced in 1996 and recommendations have been made for future installations. These trials were conducted in the new Orange and Albany premises and included the ABC’s D-CART technology and Dalet, a commercial PC-based system. The trials confirmed the benefits of using digital editing equipment in regional stations A replacement program for ageing analogue reel-to-reel and ‘The ABC needs to plan and cartridge equipment in the regional radio studios commenced. Digital mini-disk equipment is being introduced for studio and field provide for technological recording uses. change, primarily the Digitisation of television transmission and presentation digitisation of production, Following the purchase of the digitally equipped Frank Dixon Building from Australian Information Mediain December 1995, major post-production, modifications were undertaken during 1996–97 to enable ABC Television Master Control and Transmission to move into the transmission and archives’ complex. On 5 November, test transmissions were carried out with the ABC being the first free-to-air broadcaster to originate programs Bob Mansfield, The challenge of a better ABC from a fully digital complex. From July 1997, all ABC Television Volume 1: A review of the role and functions of the programming from Sydney is being transmitted from this new digital ABC installation utilising the latest in digital videotape and automated presentation. Online services News from Radio Australia was progressively made available in text form on ABC Online in French, Tok Pisin, Chinese and Bahasa Indonesian. The production of the French, Chinese and Indonesian services is fully automated, with Chinese news appearing in traditional and simplified Mandarin scripts. In 1997, the Real Audio system for live audio streaming of ABC radio programming on ABC Online was implemented. It was initially used to provide live audio on the Radio Australia site from the radio coverage of the Hong Kong handover to China. Improved Triple J – television simulcasts The Triple J Time Zone Delay system was commissioned in June with lip synchronisation for television simulcasts. This allows Triple J to transmit time corrected programs into different time zones, eliminates duplication of audio preparation and reduces operational costs.

63 ABC developed technology Following cessation of international marketing arrangements with the BASYS company, and a review of ABC-DIGITAL operations, the ABC sought an external licensee to continue the direct marketing of digital technology to new and existing clients in the Australian and international broadcasting industries. The ABC expects to finalise a licensing agreement for its digital technologies, including the D–Cart and D–Radio systems, early in the 1997–1998 financial year. Under the agreement, the licensee will take over responsibility for manufacturing, marketing, distribution, sales and support of ABC–Digital products, and will pay a royalty to the ABC on sales. Currently, ABC–Digital continues to Perth Open Day provide support to existing overseas broadcasters under agreed service contracts. Telecommunications de-regulation During the last year, the ABC contributed to the debate on proposed changes to the telecommunications regulatory regime to take effect on 1 July 1997. The ABC, as national broadcaster, has a unique position in the telecommunications area and sought to minimise any adverse impact resulting from the changes.

Future Directions

Development of ABC Technology Strategy Work is progressing on developing an ABC strategic digital technology plan for the next five years, based on overall output plans. The plan will take into account programming requirements, regional technology needs, industry directions, regulatory and audience changes, developments in broadcasting technology and changes in the market place. It will encompass the ABC’s planned move along with other free-to-air broadcasters to digital delivery technology and the need to replace analogue production technology with digital equipment as it reaches the end of its useful life. The Mansfied Review highlighted the need to develop a digital strategy covering the digitisation of production, post-production, transmission and archives, as well as rationalisation of property and maximum use of assets. Mr Mansfield recommended that all future capital replacement needs be consistent with the digitisation strategy. Moves to digital transmission systems The ABC remains actively involved in industry working parties and advisory groups preparing reports on the establishment of digital transmission systems. During the last year, the ABC participated in the Digital Radio Advisory Committee reporting to the Minister for Communications and the Arts, the ABA’s Digital Radio Broadcasting Task Force and the ABA’s Specialist Group for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting.

64 corporate corporate management management

As part of the One ABC restructuring, a number of existing corporate support functions gathered together as a portfolio group, reporting to the Chief of Staff in the Managing Director’s office. These functions include the day to day operations of the Managing Director’s office, liaison with the Chairman’s office and the Board Secretariat. The Group also includes Corporate Policy, Corporate Strategy and Corporate Affairs

Corporate Policy ‘In 1995, the Canadian Government Corporate Policy represents and protects the ABC’s interests in the industry and legislative commissioned a similar review of the and regulatory environments, and provides policy advice and assistance within the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Corporation. following a call for public submissions, Reviews and Legislation received 150. The current review of the Telecommunications Legislation Major legislative changes to telecommunications ABC’s role and functions received more regulation took effect on 1 July 1997. Corporate Policy coordinated the ABC’s submissions to the than 10 000. Department of Communications and the Arts on the draft legislation and appeared before the Senate Select Committee on the Telecommunications Bills. I was delighted with this response, Inquiry into the Role and Future of Radio Australia particularly as many submissions were and Australia Television In February, following Mr Mansfield’s review of from young people, the elderly and the the role and functions of the ABC, the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References disabled - people who may not have chosen Committee conducted an Inquiry into the Role and Future of Radio Australia and Australia Television. Corporate Policy undertook liaison to participate in public meetings. I am work and assisted in preparation of the ABC’s submissions. The Committee’s majority report satisfied that the review drew submissions recommended that Australia continue to operate international broadcasting services to the Asia- from a broad cross-section of Australians.’ Pacific regions and that such services continue to be associated with the ABC but with Bob Mansfield, The challenge of a better ABC Volume 1: A review of the role and functions of the ABC separately identified funding. Senate Select Committee on Community Standards on the Portrayal of Violence in the Electronic Media Corporate Policy attended hearings and provided an ABC response to the Senate Select Committee on Community Standards’ Report on the Portrayal of Violence in the Electronic Media. The Senate had referred to the Committee matters arising from submissions to the

65 Committee of Ministers on the Portrayal of Violence, established by the Prime Minister in May 1996 following events in Port Arthur. Corporate Policy also participated in discussions with the Department of Communications and the Arts on violence on television and the V–Chip. Editorial Policies Corporate Policy commenced coordination of a comprehensive review of ABC Editorial Policies to address structural and editorial changes resulting from the One ABC restructure and to review complaints handling procedures, program standards and policies. The ABC Editorial Policies manual was last reviewed in 1995. Policy Development Amongst other things, Corporate Policy also assisted in: • consultation and negotiation with the Department of Communication and the Arts regarding retransmission of free-to-air television services on pay television channels; • attendance at Steering Group meetings and discussions regarding the proposed sale of the national transmission network by the Office of Asset Sales; • preparation of ABC Television’s Submission to the Review of Commonwealth Assistance to the Film Industry (the Gonski Review); You too can be B2 – Melbourne Day in • the preparation of a submission by National Networks to the the Park, March. Australian Broadcasting Authority’s investigation into Australian Content on Pay Television; and • discussions and formulation of an ABC response to the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997.

Corporate Strategy Corporate Strategy assists the office of the Managing Director in strategic development, planning and communications. It aims to enhance the positioning, performance and public profile of the ABC. This includes management of the Corporation’s media relations. Corporate Plan Working closely with portfolio areas and subsidiaries, Corporate Strategy developed the 1997–2000 Corporate Plan, reflecting the new One ABC structure and a focus on providing distinctive program content. Organisation Change The Corporate Strategy area has a significant role in assisting with organisational change. This included development of the One ABC strategy, incorporating

66 corporate management various elements of organisation change within an overall statement Independent Complaints of corporate direction, and communication of this direction to Review Panel external and internal stakeholders. The unit worked with The Independent Complaints consultants to design the new organisation structure. Review Panel (ICRP) reviews Following the announcement of the new structure in December, the written complaints alleging serious unit supported the Managing Director and new Executive by bias, lack of balance or unfair facilitating, monitoring and reporting on the change process and treatment arising from ABC working with critical groups in the Corporation. broadcasts. Complainants may seek Corporate Strategy worked closely with the Finance and Business a panel review once the ABC’s Services portfolio in preparing the Corporation’s triennial funding normal complaints procedures have submission to Government. been completed and if the complainant is dissatisfied with Mansfield Review the ABC’s response. ICRP findings In July, the Government appointed Mr Bob Mansfield to conduct a and recommendations are carefully review of the role and functions of the ABC. A small team was considered by the ABC, particularly established to liaise with Mr Mansfield and to prepare the when updating the ABC’s Editorial Corporation’s formal submission to the Review, made in December Policies. 1996. The ICRP consists of Ted Thomas, Throughout the period of the Mansfield Review, the ABC continued Convenor, Margaret Jones, Deputy to pursue its comprehensive agenda of organisation reshaping, Convenor, Professor Michael seeking to address issues of creative direction and resources Chesterman, Stepan Kerkyasharian management. The Corporation kept Mr Mansfield informed about the AM, Julianne Schultz and Bob major elements of reshaping. Johnson. Members of the Panel have been appointed for their A further formal submission, One ABC: The Vision – and the knowledge of or experience in Decisions, was made in December outlining progress on reshaping. It journalistic ethics and practice, included an outline of the new structure approved by the Board on media operations and program 9 December. production, complaints handling Mr Mansfield’s report to the Minister for Communications and the and other review processes. Arts was released on 24 January. In its sixth year of operation the ICRP received eighteen requests to Corporate Affairs review complaints. Many of the requests did not meet the Panel’s ABC Corporate Affairs is responsible for the relationship between the criteria as they had not been dealt ABC and the broader Australian community. with by the ABC or involved This is done through analysis of phone calls to ABC switchboards, matters outside the Panel’s area of the monitoring of mail coming to the Board and senior responsibility. The ICRP accepted management, the tracking of media coverage about the ABC and two requests for review and research into ABC audiences and community attitudes. completed two reviews commenced The ABC’s National Advisory Council, Members of Parliament, civic in the previous reporting period. A leaders and community groups, such as the Friends of the ABC, also third review commenced in the provide a wealth of information about how Australians relate to previous year was abandoned by their ABC. the complainant. It was pleasing that the Mansfield report noted the very special The four reviews completed during relationship between the ABC and the community. It is one the ABC the year were requested by the carefully nurtures and values deeply. National Association of Forest Industries, Bankers Trust Australia Corporate Affairs joined with local ABC Managers to run another Limited, North Forest Products and series of open days. Thes allowed hundreds of thousands of Forest Industries Federation (WA) Australains to see their ABC at work while meeting their favourite Inc, and Mr Andrew Casey. personalities and program-makers. Public feedback from these days Summaries of the findings are set is invaluable in fine-tuning services. out in Appendix 12. The four largest Open Days were at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Melbourne’s Myer Music Bowl, the Brisbane Botanic Gardens and

67 Rosalie Park in Perth. In addition over a dozen smaller open days were held in regional centres. During the past year two notable changes occurred in the way the audience related to the ABC. First, community concerns about the ABC’s funding overtook all other issues. There were far fewer complaints about programming than there had been for many years — even though audiences rose. Second, the past year saw the emergence of electronic mail as a quick and effective way of communicating with the ABC. E-mail traffic increased by over 50 per cent during the past year and continues to increase. Fewer people now write letters and e-mail is starting to replace the fax, as it becomes more available. Even so, it is the telephone that still allows most people — approximately 1000 people on an national history challenge The National History Challenge, an ABC initiated community event established with the History Teachers’ Association of Australia, attracted over 5000 entries in 1996, its inaugural year. The challenge promotes the learning of history in schools and fosters enthusiasm for research through primary sources. Students from Years 5–12 were invited to submit entries, on a given theme, in the form of essays, museum displays, performances or audio visual presentations. Following the 1996 regional and state judging, finalists were flown to Canberra for judging and the Awards Presentation at Parliament House. The theme for the 1977 Challenge was ‘civil rights and responsibilities in our history’. The number of schools which submitted entries doubled. The Australia Foundation for Culture and the Humanities again provided principle funding of $105 000. DEETYA also gave major support with a grant of $25 000. Others contributing in to the operation of the Challenge were the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, State and Territory Education Departments, Catholic Education Commissions, Independent School Systems, Australian Archives, the Australian Historical Association, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, the Australian War Memorial, Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Curriculum Corporation, Murray Darling Basin Commission, National Library of Australia, National Maritime Museum, Parliamentary Education Office, the Powerhouse Museum, SBS and Sovereign Hill Historical Park. The ABC continued to provide substantial in-kind support through on-air promotions and program content on both Radio and Television, development of a web site and operational and marketing assistance. Home page of the 1997 National History Challenge Website

68 average day — to make contact with the ABC. corporate management Telephone comments, letters and email The following is a summary of the major concerns of callers to ABC switchboards (matters generating more than 300 calls). • Protests about Federal Government funding cuts to the ABC and loss of programming: 6589 calls. • Enquiries of comments about sport on the ABC: 4349 calls. • Complaints about transmission breakdowns: 1262 calls. Public Opinion of the • Enquiries about how to enter Race Around the World: 1022 calls. ABC • Comments about Sounds of Summer programming on Radio: 1016 In May just prior to the Federal calls. Budget, a Newspoll survey • Enquiries/thanks for ABC Open Days in Sydney, Melbourne and revealed that seven out of ten Perth: 894 calls. Australians were opposed to the • Praise for/requests for repeat or video of Riverdance: 693 calls. Federal Government's proposed $55 million base level funding • Enquiries about/praise for ABC Classic FM coverage of the Sydney cut to the ABC in 1997–98. Less International Piano Competition: 657 calls. then ten per cent of those • Complaints about/concern that industrial action taken by staff sampled supported the budget over budget cuts was the wrong thing to do : 545 calls. reduction. • There were 538 calls about the 1997 Sydney Gay and Lesbian The poll also found that 71 per Mardi Gras on Television 377 about the ABC not screening the cent of Australians would be parade and 151 about the Elle McFeast Mardi Gras special. concerned over reductions to ABC • Reaction to Pauline Hanson interview on Lateline : 413 calls. programs and services. • Complaints about accidental re-screening of an episode of Waiting The poll was taken over the for God two weeks in a row: 320 calls. weekend of May 2-4. Opposition • Praise for ABC coverage of 1997 Anzac Day Marches: 317 calls. was highest amongst Democrat voters with 92 per cent opposed • Enquiries about withdrawal of Tap Dogs special: 305 calls. to the budget reductions.Over 60 During the year, ABC Corporate Relations handled 7584 letters per cent of Coalition voters were written to senior management and the Corporation in general, as opposed to the financial cut, well as 3398 emails addressed to the Corporate website. while 68 per cent of the same The major areas of concern were: group were either ‘very • Possible loss of Radio Australia: 130 (42 emails) concerned’ or ‘somewhat concerned’ over reductions in the • Future telecast of Sydney Gay and lesbian Mardi Gras: 112; ABC's programs or services. The • Cancellation of the repeat Quantum program on immunisation: 84; figures were 80 per cent and 74 • The ending of Rugby League broadcasts: 59. per cent respectively for ALP voters. Corporate Relations received 673 letters and 230 emails in supporting of maintenance of Government funding levels while 102 people provided the Corporation with a copy of their submission to the Mansfield Review. Apart from those listed above, the largest proportion of emails sought information on programming matters. Publishing Printed material distributed to Parliamentarians and community groups ranged from the impact of budget cuts, to the ABC’s position on the outsourcing of television program production and the recommendations of the Mansfield report.The ABC’s Annual Report 1995–96 again won a Silver Award for Reporting Excellence in the 1997 Annual Report Awards.

69 national advisory council

The National Advisory Council (NAC) is recommendations included the need for the ABC established under the ABC Act. The ABC Board to reflect and enhance the national identity and seeks the broadest range of community advice cultural diversity of Australia from the Council and for this reason the public Following the release of Mr Mansfield’s report is invited to apply for membership. Invitations Council prepared a paper for the Board for membership were broadcast on ABC concerning changes to the ABC Charter. Television, ABC Radio and ABC Online. Council considered executive responses to their The twelve members of Council are appointed various recommendations on program matters for a three year term. Appointments are and on occasions thanked program makers for staggered so that a small group of new members clear and comprehensive responses. joins each year. This year Jillian Crowe and Troy Dean of Melbourne, Audrey Tremain from Dubbo Some of the areas where Council made NSW, Matthew Draper from the ACT and Lesley recommendations and received executive Bangama Fogarty of Perth joined the Council responses included: (i) The impact of the reduction of funding for Quantum which has meant the inclusion of more overseas material. The ABC has responded that the new Commissioning Editor will review Quantum to ensure it maintains a high standard. (ii) Recovery and the importance of involving regional and rural viewers. The ABC indicated that resources will be reallocated to enable live broadcasts from regional areas (iii) Violence in cartoons was raised and is undergoing further consideration by ABC programmers. (iv) On-air promotions were discussed, as the original concept of including ordinary Australians was suggested by the Advisory Council. (v) The need for more quality Australian National Advisory Council, Front row from left: Jillian Crowe, Jo Gemmell, Aimee Heuzenroeder, Betchay Mondragon, Audrey Tremain, Alex Pucci, Robin Stuart programs and the need to maintain core Harris (Convenor). Back row from left: Matthew Draper, Troy Dean, Giovanni activities was raised. Carsaniga, Lesley Bangama Fogarty. Missing: Mark Anderson. Programs commended included Radio National The ABC Board’s National Advisory Council Breakfast, First Wednesday, Good News Week, the Subcommittee now regularly meets with the Elle McFeast Specials, , Rage, Recovery, The Convenor of the Council, Associate Professor Human Race, Australian Story, Heartbreak High Robin Stuart-Harris. and Songlines. Regional Radio, Triple J, On the day Council was meeting in Darwin in coverage of the Hong Kong handover and Port July 1996 the Minister for Communications and Arthur anniversary programming were the Arts announced funding reductions to the specifically commended. ABC. Council issued a public statement opposing Council strongly supports the One ABC structure these budget cuts and the proposed changes to with its emphasis on regional listeners and the ABC Charter. viewers. Council especially voiced its concerns Council’s submission to the Mansfield Review for the welfare of staff during the current argued that the ABC should continue to provide reductions to the ABC’s workforce due to budget innovative, comprehensive services and its reductions. budget should not be reduced. Other

70 The About Your ABC Website, which is maintained and monitored by corporate management ABC Corporate Relations, continued to expand and attract a substantial audience. The 1995–96 Annual Report, the Corporate Plan, ABC submissions, speeches and media releases were added to the site. Special sub-sites were also established on the ABC’s Future, the One ABC restructure and ABC Funding. A site for the National Advisory Council was also developed to allow extra community feedback on ABC programming. Corporate Relations developed the Australia Television Web site which was launched as part of the anniversary relaunch of ABC Online in August. A site was again developed for the National History Challenge and launched in early 1997. The Intranet Steering Committee, an inter-portfolio group formed to focus attention on the development of ABC Intranet services, was initiated by Corporate Relations in early 1997. Complaints As stated earlier, the past year was remarkable in that there were relatively few complaints lodged. Even so there is no room for complacency. Both the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA) and the Independent Complaints Review Panel accepted some new complaints and finalised a range of matters unresolved at the end of the last financial year. Australian Broadcasting Authority If a complaint is covered by the ABC’s Code of Practice and a listener or viewer is not satisfied with the ABC’s response to that complaint he or she can refer the complaint to the ABA. Twenty-two complaints were investigated by the ABA during the year. The ABA found against the ABC in six matters. One involved the lack of suitable warning and classification before a segment of the King Street Newtown documentary was shown in Backchat, another was based on balance in a Mediawatch segment and four complaints failed to receive satisfactory responses within the sixty day period as required under Section 8 of the ABC Code of Practice. Freedom of Information The Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) gives the public the right to access documents held by the ABC. Schedule 2 Part 11 of the Act gives the ABC exemption in relation to program material. The ABC received eight requests for access under the FOI Act. Six requests were granted access in part with further access granted on internal review. Two requests involved program material which is exempt under Section 2 Part 11 of the FOI Act. Categories of Documents The ABC holds documents under three broad categories: • general records including correspondence, reports and minutes of meetings relating to ABC policy, program development, external relations and internal management, program transmission documents, reports on audience reaction to ABC programs and publicity on programs and ABC program activities;

71 • records subject to copyright including scripts and transcripts of programs (also subject to availability, recorded programs and other recordings; • articles available for purchase, including merchandise from ABC Shops, and selected ABC program material. As noted above, program related material is exempt under Schedule 2 Part 11 of the FOI Act. Requests for Access Written requests for access to material under the FOI Act, including the $30 application fee, should be addressed to: The Managing Director Australian Broadcasting Corporation GPO Box 9994 in your State or Territory capital. Requests can also be addressed to the Managing Director and lodged at the nearest ABC office (details of which can be found in appendix 22). Formal requests under the FOI Act will be acknowledged within 14 days of receipt, and applications will be processed within 30 days.

72 Australian Broadcasting Corporation Financial Statements 30 June 1997

Independent audit report 74 Statement by directors 75 Operating statement 76 Statement of assets and liabilities 77 Statement of cash flows 78 Schedule of commitments 79 Schedule of contingencies 79 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements 1 Statement of significant accounting policies 80 2 Expenses and revenues 84 3 Economic dependency 85 4 Subsequent events 85 5 Goods and services expenses 86 6 Interest expense 86 7 Operating revenue from independent sources 87 8 Revenues from government 87 9 Extraordinary items 87 10 Abnormal items 88 11 Debt 88 12 Provisions and payables 89 13 Equity 89 14 Financial assets 89 15 Non-financial assets 91 16 Cash flow reconciliation 94 17 External financing arrangements 94 18 Remuneration of directors 95 19 Related party disclosures 95 20 Remuneration of officers 97 21 Remuneration of auditors 97 22 Trust funds 98 23 Controlled entities 98

financialstatements ABC annual report

Independent Audit Report Auditor-General for Australia Australian National Audit Office GPO Box 707 CANBERRA ACT 2601 INDEPENDENT AUDIT REPORT To the Minister for Communications and the Arts

Scope I have audited the financial statements of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for the year ended 30 June 1997. The financial statements include the consolidated financial statements of the economic entity comprising the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the entities it controlled at the year’s end or from time to time during the year. The statements comprise: • Statement by directors; • Operating Statement; • Statement of Assets and Liabilities; • Statement of Cash Flows; • Schedule of Commitments; • Schedule of Contingencies; and • Notes to and Forming Part of the Financial Statements. The members of the Board are responsible for the preparation and presentation of the financial statements and the information they contain. I have conducted an independent audit of the financial statements in order to express an opinion on them to you, the Minister for Communications and the Arts. The audit has been conducted in accordance with Australian National Audit Office Auditing Standards, which incorporate the Australian Auditing Standards, to provide reasonable assurance as to whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. Audit procedures included examination, on a test basis, of evidence supporting the amounts and other disclosures in the financial statements, and the evaluation of accounting policies and significant accounting estimates. These procedures have been undertaken to form an opinion whether, in all material respects, the financial statements are presented fairly in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards, other mandatory professional reporting requirements (Urgent Issues Group Consensus Views) and statutory requirements so as to present a view which is consistent with my understanding of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s and the economic entity’s financial position, the results of their operations and their cash flows. The audit opinion expressed in this report has been formed on the above basis.

Audit Opinion In accordance with subsection 63M(2) of the Audit Act 1901, I now report that the statements are in agreement with the accounts and records of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the economic entity, and in my opinion: (i) the statements are based on proper accounts and records; (ii) the statements present fairly in accordance with applicable Accounting Standards and other mandatory professional reporting requirements the financial position of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the economic entity as at 30 June 1997 and the results, their operations and their cash flows for the year then ended; (iii) the receipt, expenditure and investment of moneys, and the acquisition and disposal of assets by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation during the year have been in accordance with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation In our opinion the statements show fairly for the Corporation and its controlled entities,

(a) operating result for the financial year ended 30 June 1997; (b) financial position as at 30 June 1997; and (c) cash flows during the financial year ended 30 June 1997.

The statements have been made out in accordance with the Guidelines for Financial Statements of Commonwealth Authorities issued by the Minister for Finance.

Signed in accordance with a resolution of the directors.

DONALD MCDONALD BRIAN JOHNS Chairman Managing Director 24 September,1997

75 ABC annual report

Operating Statement for the year ended 30 June 1997

Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 Notes $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 NET COST OF SERVICES Operating expenses National Networks 224 157 203 333 225 153 205 424 Program Production 146 518 155 302 146 518 155 302 News & Current Affairs 163 973 175 288 163 973 175 288 Regional Services 117 263 126 714 117 263 126 714 Concerts 64 037 57 978 54 199 57 079

Total operating expenses (before abnormal items) 2 715 948 718 615 707 106 719 807 Operating revenues from independent sources National Networks 67 773 62 456 66 645 59 683 Program Production 25 499 24 429 25 499 24 429 News & Current Affairs 8 393 8 500 8 393 8 500 Regional Services 15 202 13 072 15 202 13 072 Concerts 27 160 22 231 16 038 20 821

Total operating revenues from independent sources 2 144 027 130 688 131 777 126 505 (before abnormal items)

Net cost of services (before abnormal items) 571 921 587 927 575 329 593 302

Gain or (Loss) on abnormal items 10 (3 078) 22 331 (3 078) 17 648

Net cost of services 574 999 565 596 578 407 575 654

REVENUES FROM GOVERNMENT Parliamentary appropriations received Division 151–1-01 Domestic Service – operating 499 738 500 635 499 738 500 635 Division 811–1-01 Domestic Service – capital 9 700 5 264 9 700 5 264 Division 151–1-02 Radio Australia 13 494 13 887 13 494 13 887 Division 151–1-03 Australia Television International 8 280 2 450 8 280 2 450

8A 531 212 522 236 531 212 522 236 Resources received free of charge 8B 56 900 75 500 56 900 75 500

Total revenues from government 1,2 588 112 597 736 588 112 597 736

Surplus or (deficit) of net cost of services over 13 113 32 140 9 705 22 082 revenues from government

Gain or (Loss) on extraordinary items 9 – 1 044 – –

Surplus or (deficit) of net cost of services after 13 113 33 184 9 705 22 082 extraordinary items

Accumulated surpluses at beginning of reporting period 160 692 127 508 173 726 151 644

Accumulated surpluses at end of reporting period 173 805 160 692 183 431 173 726 The accompanying notes form an integral part of these statements.

76 financial statements

Statement of Assets and Liabilities as at 30 June 1997

Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 Notes $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 DEBT Loans – Borrowings 11A 202 256 222 221 191 457 204 422

Total debt 202 256 222 221 191 457 204 422

PROVISIONS AND PAYABLES Employees 12A 126 827 119 404 125 045 117 828 Suppliers 12B 37 029 38 980 32 841 37 902 Other 12C 0 810 0 101 00– 00–

Total provisions and payables 164 666 158 485 157 886 155 730

Total liabilities 366 922 380 706 349 343 360 152

EQUITY Reserves 13 115 040 120 337 115 040 119 887 Accumulated surpluses 13 173 805 160 692 183 431 173 726

Total equity 288 845 281 029 298 471 293 613

Total liabilities and equity 655 767 661 735 647 814 653 765

FINANCIAL ASSETS Cash 14A 9 802 20 475 3 418 3 305 Receivables 14B 86 181 80 107 86 953 91 533 Investments 14C 00– 00– 0 250 0 250

Total financial assets 95 983 100 582 90 621 95 088

NON FINANCIAL ASSETS Land and buildings 15A 343 520 345 442 343 322 345 230 Infrastructure, plant and equipment 15B 145 504 149 023 143 935 147 429 Inventories 15C 53 023 50 101 53 023 50 101 Intangibles 15D 00– 0 450 00– 00– Other 15E 17 737 16 137 16 913 15 917

Total non-financial assets 559 784 561 153 557 193 558 677

Total assets 655 767 661 735 647 814 653 765

Current liabilities 112 467 142 980 206 381 123 187 Non-current liabilities 254 455 237 726 142 962 236 965 Current assets 106 704 157 985 142 743 149 602 Non-current assets 549 063 503 750 505 071 504 163

The accompanying notes form an integral part of these statements.

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Statement of Cash Flows for the year ended 30 June 1997 Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 Notes $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 Inflows Inflows (Outflows) (Outflows) CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES Cash received Parliamentary appropriations 531 212 522 236 531 212 522 236 Sales of goods and services 127 473 115 514 115 447 112 300 Interest and bill discounts 9 745 10 935 9 036 10 174

Total cash received 668 430 648 685 655 695 644 710 Cash used Employees (328 106) (285 989) (317 707) (311 702) Suppliers (293 652) (331 966) (283 600) (291 704) Interest and other financing costs (23 086) (34 734) (23 086) (34 698)

Total cash used (644 844) (652 689) (624 393) (638 104)

Net cash provided from operating activities 16 23 586 (4 004) 31 302 6 606

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES Cash received Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment 4 692 13 382 4 676 13 382 Government bonds 0 00– 10 633 0 00– 10 633 Repayment of loan – Arnbridge Pty. Limited 0 00– 0 00– 6 900 0 00– Repayment of loan – Australia Television International 0 00– 0 00– 3 957 0 00– Sales tax refund on property, plant and equipment 0 039 1 794 0 00– 0 00–

Total cash received 4 731 25 809 15 533 24 015 Cash used Purchase of property, plant and equipment (11 211) (32 060) (11 010) (35 590) Bills of exchange/promissory notes (7 556) 0(760) (7 556) 0(760) Payments to controlled entities 0 00– 0 00– (14 933) (3 086) Repayment of borrowings (7 000)

Total cash used (25 767) (32 820) (33 499) (39 436)

Net cash from investing activities (21 036) (7 011) (17 966) (15 421)

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES Cash received Proceeds from debt 0 00– 13 342 0 00– 7 809

Total cash received 0 00– 13 342 0 00– 7 809 Cash used Repayment of debt (13 223) 0 00– (13 223) 0 00–

Total cash used (13 223) 0 00– (13 223) 0 00–

Net cash from financing activities (13 223) 13 342 (13 223) 7 809

Net increase (decrease) in cash held (10 673) 2 327 0 113 (1 006) Add cash at 1 July 20 475 18 148 3 305 4 311

Cash at 30 June 9 802 20 475 3 418 3 305 The accompanying notes form an integral part of these statements.

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Schedule of Commitments as at 30 June 1997

Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 Notes $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 BY TYPE

CAPITAL COMMITMENTS Plant and Equipment 2 176 1 450 2 176 1 450

Total capital commitments 2 176 1 450 2 176 1 450

OTHER COMMITMENTS Operating leases 14 448 15 624 14 033 14 994 Other commitments (a) 64 185 70 427 63 898 70 427

Total other commitments 78 633 86 051 77 931 85 421

Total commitments payable 80 809 87 501 80 107 86 871

Commitments receivable (10 587) (10 127) (8 137) (10 127)

Net commitments 70 222 77 374 71 970 76 744

BY MATURITY One year or less 23 923 42 188 25 857 41 973 From one to two years 16 362 21 056 16 176 20 824 From two to five years 26 381 13 319 26 381 13 136 Over five years 3 556 0 811 3 556 0 811

Net commitments 70 222 77 374 71 970 76 744

The accompanying notes form an integral part of these statements.

(a) The Corporation’s main other commitments are detailed as follows: PT Satellite Palapa $9 513 185 (1996 $12 497 182), Optus Networks Pty Ltd $28 453 830 (1996 $19 892 594), TV Program Purchases $22 448 400 (1996 $30 211 183).

Schedule of Contingencies as at year ended 30 June 1997

SCHEDULE OF UNQUANTIFIABLE CONTINGENCIES In the normal course of activities claims for damages have been lodged at the date of this report against the Corporation and certain of its officers. The Corporation has disclaimed liability and is actively defending these actions. It is not possible to estimate the amounts of any eventual payments which may be required in relation to these claims.

The accompanying notes form an integral part of these statements.

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Notes to and Forming Part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 1997

1. Statement of significant accounting policies The principal accounting policies adopted in preparing the accounts of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the consolidated accounts of the Corporation and controlled entities, are stated to assist in a general understanding of these financial statements. These policies have been applied consistently by all entities in the economic entity.

1.1 Basis of accounting The financial statements are a general purpose financial report. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with: 1) Guidelines titled Financial Statements of Commonwealth Authorities issued by the Minister for Finance in July 1997 (the ‘Guidelines’) and which require that the financial statements are prepared: (a) in compliance with Australian Accounting Standards and Accounting Guidance Releases issued by the Australian Accounting Research Foundation, (b) having regard to Statements of Accounting Concepts, and 2) the Consensus Views of the Urgent Issues Group.

The financial statements have been prepared on an accrual basis and are in accordance with historical cost convention, except for certain assets which, as noted, are at valuation. Except where stated, no allowance is made for the effect of changing prices on the results or on the financial position.

1.2 Rounding Amounts are rounded to the nearest $1,000 except in relation to: a) remuneration of directors b) remuneration of officers c) remuneration of auditors d) trust funds

1.3 Principles of consolidation The consolidated financial statements are those of the economic entity, comprising the accounts of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and controlled entities. Control exists where the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has the capacity to dominate the decision making in relation to the financial and operating policies of another entity so the controlled entity operates to achieve the objectives of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The effects of all transactions and balances between the entities are eliminated in full. Details of controlled entities are contained in Note 23. Financial statements of subsidiaries not considered to be a going concern have been prepared on a liquidation basis. No adjustments have been made relating to the recoverability and classification of the recorded assets of those subsidiaries.

1.4 Taxation The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is not subject to income tax pursuant to Section 71 of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983. Where controlled entities are subject to income tax, the economic entity adopts the liability method of tax-effect accounting whereby income tax expense is calculated based on the operating profit before income tax adjusted for any permanent differences. Timing differences which arise due to the different accounting periods in which items of revenue and expense are included in the determination of operating profit before income tax and taxable income are brought to account either as a provision for deferred income tax or an asset described as a future income tax benefit at the rate of tax applicable for the period in which the benefit will be received or the liability will become payable. Future income tax benefits are not brought to account unless realisation of the asset is assured beyond any reasonable doubt. No reconciliation is performed between prima facie tax expense and income tax payable. This is because the Corporation is not subject to income tax and its controlled entities are either exempt from tax or did not incur an income tax expense due to carried forward tax losses.

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1.5 Foreign currency transactions Revenues and expenditures relating to overseas transactions are converted to Australian currency at the exchange rates prevailing at the date of transaction, or at the hedged rate. Exchange gains and losses and hedging costs arising on contracts entered into as hedges of specific revenue or expense transactions are deferred until the date of such transactions at which time they are included in the determination of such revenues or expenses. Open hedge contracts relating to all other revenue and expenditure transactions are converted at the applicable exchange rate at balance date with exchange gains or losses being included in the operating statement. All foreign currency balances are converted to Australian currency at the exchange rate prevailing at balance date, except for liabilities which are subject to currency swap contracts for which an Australian dollar currency repayment schedule has been adopted, and such liabilities are brought to account at contract rates. Monetary assets and liabilities of overseas branches and amounts payable to or by the Corporation in foreign currencies are translated into Australian currency at the applicable exchange rate at balance date. Non-monetary items of overseas branches are translated at exchange rates current at the transaction date. Currency gains and losses are reflected in the operating statement.

1.6 Derivatives Derivative financial instruments are used by the Corporation to manage financial risks and are not entered into for trading purposes. The classes of derivative financial contracts used are interest rate swaps, forward rate agreements and forward foreign exchange contracts and options. Derivative financial instruments designated as hedges are accounted for on the same basis as the underlying exposure.

A. Interest rate swaps and forward rate agreements Interest rate swaps are entered into for the purpose of managing the Corporation’s interest rate position. Gains or losses on interest rate swaps are included in the measurement of interest payments on the transactions to which they relate. Premiums or discounts are amortised through the operating statement each year over the life of the swap.

B. Interest rate options Interest rate options are used to hedge interest rate exposures. The premiums paid on interest rate options are included in other assets and are amortised to interest expense over the term of the agreements.

1.7 Borrowings Borrowings are recorded at the amount of the net proceeds received and carried at amortised cost until the liabilities are fully settled. Interest on the instruments are recognised as an expense on an effective yield basis.

1.8 Cash For the purpose of the statement of cash flows, cash includes cash on hand and deposits held at call with banks.

1.9 Reporting by segments The Corporation principally provides a national television and radio service within the broadcasting industry. It is therefore considered for segmental reporting to operate predominantly in one industry and in one geographical area, Australia.

1.10 Resources received free of charge The guidelines for the Financial Statements of Commonwealth Authorities require resources received free of charge to be included in the Operating Statement, as both operating expenses and operating revenue. The National Transmission Agency (NTA) provides the services and operates the facilities necessary to transmit the Corporation’s programs to the public under the direction of the Minister for Communications and the Arts. ABC programs are carried on 1078 of the 1719 broadcasting transmitters accommodated on NTA facilities. The costs provided by the NTA represent an apportionment of the base cash costs which exclude depreciation, administration and overhead charges. It does not represent the cost that the ABC would incur if it were empowered to transmit ABC services direct to the public.

1.11 Allocation by portfolios In the 1995–96 financial statements revenue and expenses were allocated to the divisions of Television, Radio, Concerts and Radio Australia. As part of the ABC restructure in 1996–97, reporting is now by output portfolios. These are as follows: National Networks, Program Production, News and Current Affairs, Regional Services and Concerts. The 1995-96 allocation method of Enterprises’ revenue and expenses were split proportionally between Television – 60% and Radio – 40%. The split for 1996–97 is National Networks – 80% and Regional Services – 20%.

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1.12 Comparative figures Where applicable, prior year comparative figures have been restated to reflect the current year’s presentation in the financial statements.

1.13 Television co-productions External contributions earned in respect of the production of television programs are recorded in the operating statement.

1.14 Employee entitlements Provision is made for the Corporation’s and controlled entities’ liabilities for employee entitlements arising from services rendered by employees to balance date. The calculation of long service leave liability is based on the probability of employees reaching ten years service and the expected cashflows arising from the accrued liability. The long service leave and annual leave provision is split into current and non-current based on historical trends, except for the anticipated redundancy and associated leave payments which have been included as current. The accumulated annual leave liabilities arising from services rendered by employees to balance date are provided for on the basis of current wage and salary rates. Accumulating non-vesting sick leave is not recognised as a liability as at balance date as the sick leave taken each reporting period has been less than the entitlement accrued during the same period. As the accrued entitlement is not anticipated to result in a cash outflow in the future, no provision has been made. Accrued salaries, wages and other benefits represent amounts the Corporation has a present obligation to pay as at balance date.

1.15 Redundancies Provision is made for the Corporation’s redundancy liability for employee numbers which have been identified and can be reliably measured. The provision includes the estimated eligible termination payment. Long service leave or annual leave paid on termination due to redundancy is included in the respective provision.

1.16 Depreciation and amortisation of non-current assets Depreciation is calculated on a straight line basis to amortise the cost or valuation of each non-current asset over its expected useful life. Non-current assets are depreciated from the commencement of the monthly accounting period subsequent to the date of receipt. The cost or valuation of leasehold land, buildings and improvements is amortised over the shorter of the unexpired lease period or over its expected useful life. A review of the expected useful life of computer equipment resulted in a reduction in applicable depreciation rates. This reduction resulted in an adjustment to accumulated depreciation and a writeback of depreciation expense of $833 064

1.17 Repairs and maintenance Maintenance, repair expenses and minor renewals which do not constitute an upgrading or enhancement of equipment are expensed as incurred.

1.18 Superannuation Contributions made by the Corporation are expensed.

1.19 Consultants A consultant is defined as providing “independent expert advice to the Corporation under an assignment of limited duration”. The Corporation guidelines for the use of consultants are consistent with the Audit Act and Finance regulations and are designed to ensure the Corporation receives value for money.

1.20 Commitments Contracted revenue and expenditure items are shown in accordance with the Guidelines for Financial Statements of Commonwealth Authorities issued by the Minister for Finance.

1.21 Receivables – Bills of exchange and promissory notes Premiums or discounts are amortised through profit and loss each year from the date of purchase so that investments attain their redemption values by maturity date and income is recognised on an effective yield basis. Any profits or losses arising from disposal prior to maturity are taken to operating statement in the period in which they are realised. These assets are intended to be held to maturity and are carried at cost or cost adjusted for discounts and premiums.

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1.22 Property, plant & equipment For these financial statements, purchases of property, plant and equipment are recognised initially at cost in the statement of assets and liabilities, except for purchases costing less than $2,000, which are expensed in the year of acquisition (other than where they form part of a group of similar items which are significant in total). The $2000 threshold was selected because it facilitates efficient asset management and recording without materially affecting asset values recognised. The acquisition of property, plant and equipment free of charge or for a nominal amount are recognised initially at fair value.

1.23 Valuation of non-current assets The amounts at which non-current assets are stated in the accounts are regularly reviewed. Land and building revaluations are undertaken every three years. The last revaluation occured in June 1996.

1.24 Inventories For these financial statements, inventories are valued at the lower of cost or net realisable value. Television programs are produced for domestic transmission and include direct salaries and expenses; fixed production overheads are expensed in the period in which they are incurred. The costs of television program inventory are expensed after the first transmission; subsequent sales of residual rights are recognised in the period in which they occur. The costs of programs produced for radio are expensed as incurred. Such programs are normally broadcast soon after production, stock on hand at any time being minimal. The provision for obsolete retail stock is based on stock on hand over twelve months old and which may require discounting or disposal. Items in engineering and general stores which have not been issued for three years are provided for as obsolete.

1.25 Changes in accounting policy

A. Television program inventory The valuation of television program inventory was changed, effective from 1 July, 1997 Prior to that date the policy was to fully amortise programs following their first screening The new policy provides a revised amortisation schedule as follows: * News, Current Affairs and Live programs – 100% on first screening * Children’s, Education and Movies – Straight line over the shorter of the license period or three years * All other programs not covered above – 90% first screening and 10% second screening * Alternate Amortisation Schedule – Management may determine an alternative amortisation schedule for exceptional programs in any of the above categories for which the stated policy is considered inappropriate. If this policy had been implemented on 1 July 1996, the net result would be an increase in inventory values of $7 million with an offsetting reduction in program costs.

B. Depreciation of computer equipment The Corporation has been systematically reviewing the useful life of fixed assets. In 1995–96 the depreciation rates for plant and equipment (excluding computer equipment) were reduced and the accumulated depreciation written back as an abnormal revenue item ($30 million). In 1996–97 the Corporation reviewed computer equipment and the current useful life is estimated to be six years. The depreciation rate was reduced to reflect the average useful life, resulting in a reduction of depreciation expense by $833,064. There was no writeback for previous years.

C. Valuation of Symphony Australia’s federal music library At the end of 1996–97 Symphony Australia obtained an expert valuation of their music library by Patricia Baillee, who was recommended by the Australian Valuation Office (AVO). The AVO acted as supervisers for the project. This amounted to $20 million which has been recognised as an asset of the Corporation. Previously, it had been the policy of the Corporation to expense minor items on purchase.

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2. Expenses and revenues Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 Notes $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 Operating expenses (a)

Employee related – Remuneration 305 071 301 361 294 791 297 441 – Leave entitlements 30 458 32 305 30 133 31 675 5A 335 529 333 666 324 924 329 116

Artist fees 5B 19 130 18 294 16 915 17 606 Auditor’s remuneration 5B 0 277 0 248 0 248 0 212 Bad and doubtful debts (f) 5B 0 (73) 0 102 0 (73) 0 075 Communications 5B 9 329 9 529 9 248 9 389 Computer costs 5B 4 691 5 257 4 598 5 245 Consultants and contract labour (g) 5B 8 100 5 665 7 075 5 529 Depreciation and amortisation 5C 29 670 28 631 29 446 28 491 Debt forgiveness (e) 5G 0 00– 0 00– 0 00– 10 754 Freight 5B 2 378 2 483 2 260 2 404 Interest 6 23 237 21 172 23 237 21 136 Legal costs 5B 1 394 1 334 1 394 1 159 Loss on foreign exchange 5E 0 00– 0 661 0 00– 0 539 Loss on disposal of non-current assets (b) 5D 0 492 0 375 0 492 1 236 Materials and minor items 5B 27 629 23 878 27 402 23 690 Merchandising and promotion 5B 53 498 45 075 52 381 44 417 Transmission services (c) 5B 56 900 75 500 56 900 75 500 Operating leases and occupancy (d) 5B 17 403 18 600 17 149 18 306 Program purchases 5B 35 230 30 077 35 230 30 077 Program rights 5B 17 775 20 889 16 987 20 382 Repairs, maintenance and hire 5B 12 947 15 801 12 347 15 195 Satellite and transmission 5B 29 032 30 684 26 851 28 768 Travel 5B 19 248 19 167 18 098 18 669 Video production services 5B 3 126 3 172 3 063 3 162 Incidental 5B 9 006 8 355 6 000 6 576 Payments to controlled entities 5F 0 00– 0 00– 14 934 2 174

Total operating expenses 715 948 718 615 707 106 719 807

Operating revenues from independent sources (a) Co-production contributions 7D 8 807 9 993 8 807 9 993 Concert sales and subsidies 7D 22 117 19 347 14 381 16 118 Gain on foreign exchange 7C 0 641 0 00– 0 641 0 00– Gain on disposal of non-current assets (b) 7B 1 268 3 077 1 268 3 077 Interest and bill discounts 7A 9 667 10 977 8 946 10 216 Merchandising and promotion 7D 49 928 41 138 49 928 41 138 Program sales 7D 10 690 10 783 10 631 10 749 Radio publications 7D 0 940 1 030 0 940 1 030 Rent and hire of facilities 7D 7 870 8 464 10 096 13 218 Royalties 7D 18 250 12 030 18 250 12 030 Sponsorship and donations 7E 1 253 0 00– 0 00– 0 00– Technology sales 7D 0 675 1 615 0 675 1 615 Incidental 7E 11 921 12 234 7 214 7 321

Total operating revenues from independent sources 144 027 130 688 131 777 126 505 Total revenues from government 8A, B 588 112 597 736 588 112 597 736

Total revenues 732 139 728 424 719 889 724 241

Operating result (deficit) before abnormal items 16 191 9 809 12 783 4 434

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2. Expenses and revenues (continued) a) Operating expenses and revenues are allocated across the Corporation’s major activities and shown in the Operating Statement by activity. (b) The Corporation’s proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment $ 4 675 755 (1996 $13 382 453). (c) Transmission services received free of charge (refer Note 1.14) are detailed as follows; National Networks $34 000 000 (1996 $ 45 300 000), Regional Services $22 900 000 (1996 $30 200 000) (d) The Corporation’s rent expense total $6 986 256 (1996 $7 714 897). (e) In 1995/96 the provision for debt forgiveness included $4 754 369 for Arnbridge Pty Ltd and $6 000 000 for Australia Television International Pty Ltd (f) Bad and doubtful debts expense includes a writeback of the provision for doubtful debts $154 000 (1996 $NIL) (g) Consultants expenses $2 309 489 (1996 $2 034 467), contracted labour $4 765 511 (1995 $3 494 533) ABC only

3. Economic dependency

The Corporation is dependent upon the provision of appropriations of moneys by Parliament. In excess of 83% of normal activities are funded in this manner, and without these appropriations the Corporation would be unable to meet the terms of its Charter. (Refer Operating Statement page 4 for details of revenue from government).

4. Subsequent events

Australia Television International Pty. Limited In early July 1997 it was announced that the Seven Network would purchase the ordinary shares in Australia Television International Pty. Limited. Heads of agreement have been signed and from 1 August 1997 Seven Network assumed management control of the service. Under the agreement the ABC will take a preference shareholding and will be represented on the board.

Symphony Australia Following the divestment of Sydney Symphony Orchestra in March 1996, Symphony Australia (National Concerts Office), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra were divested in July 1997. The following companies were incorporated: • Symphony Australia Holdings Pty. Limited • Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Pty. Limited • Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Holdings Pty. Limited The Corporation will transfer the concert assets at net book value, with shares to be issued in the above companies

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5. Goods and services expenses Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 Notes $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 5A Employee expenses Basic Remuneration for services provided 305 071 301 361 294 791 297 441 Leave entitlements 30 458 32 305 30 133 31 675 335 529 333 666 324 924 329 116 5B Suppliers expenses Supply of goods and services 319 780 326 395 307 087 318 646 Operating lease rentals 7 240 7 715 6 986 7 715 327 020 334 110 314 073 326 361 5C Depreciation and amortisation Depreciation of property, plant and equipment 29 670 28 091 29 446 28 491 Amortisation of intangible assets 0 00– 0 540 0 00– 0 00– 29 670 28 631 29 446 28 491 5D Net losses from disposal of assets Land and buildings 0 053 0 179 0 053 0 179 Plant and Equipment 0 439 0 196 0 439 1 057 0 492 0 375 0 492 1 236 5E Net foreign exchange losses Non-speculative 0 00– 0 661 0 00– 0 539 0 00– 0 661 0 00– 0 539 5F Grants expense (a) Payments to controlled entities – Australia Television 0 00– 0 00– 8 280 0 00– International Pty Limited Payments to controlled entities – Sydney Symphony Orchestra Holdings Pty Limited 0 00– 0 00– 6 654 2 174 0 00– 0 00– 14 934 2 174 5G Other expense Debt forgiveness 0 00– 0 00– 0 00– 10 754 0 00– 0 00– 0 00– 10 754

(a) This is a transfer of appropriation funding from the ABC to its sudsidiaries. The revenue has been included in Australia Television International Pty. Limited and Sydney Symphony Orchestra Holdings Pty. Limited which nets out on consolidation.

6. Interest expense Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 Notes $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

Loans 23 237 21 172 23 237 21 136

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7. Operating revenue from independent sources Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 Notes $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 7A Interest Loans 0 036 0 00– 0 068 0 241 Deposits 1 447 0 704 0 726 0 704 Bills receivable 8 184 10 273 8 152 9 271

9 667 10 977 8 946 10 216 7B Net gains from disposal of assets Land and buildings 0 039 1 281 0 039 1 281 Plant and Equipment 1 229 1 796 1 229 1 796

1 268 3 077 1 268 3 077 7C Net foreign exchange gains Non–speculative 0 641 0 00– 0 641 0 00–

7D Sales of goods and services Sale of goods and services 119 277 104 400 113 708 105 891

7E Other revenues Other 11 921 12 234 7 214 7 321 Sponsorship and donations 1 253 0 00– 0 00– 0 00–

13 174 12 234 7 214 7 321

8. Revenues from government Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

8A Parliamentary appropriations 531 212 522 236 531 212 522 236

8B Resources received free of charge – 56 900 75 500 56 900 75 500 National Transmission Agency 588 112 597 736 588 112 597 736

9. Extraordinary items Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

Gain on sale of property plant and equipment 0 00– 1 044 0 00– 0 00–

Total extraordinary items 0 00– 1 044 0 00– 0 00– The provision for write down of plant and equipment is based on the estimated recoverable value of the assets.

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10. Abnormal items Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

Abnormal expenses Redundancy expenses (14 414) 0 00– (14 414) 0 00– Provision for redundancy 30 June 1996 12 376 (12 376) 12 376 (12 376) Provision for redundancy 30 June 1997 (21 040) 0 00– (21 040) 0 00– (23 078) (12 376) (23 078) (12 376)

Abnormal revenue Capitalisation of Music Library 20 000 0 00– 20 000 0 00– Writeback of accumulated depreciation 0 00– 30 024 0 00– 30 024 Debt forgiveness 0 00– 4 358 0 00– 0 00– Termination agreement fee 0 00– 0 325 0 00– 0 00–

Total abnormal items (3 078) 22 331 (3 078) 17 648

11. Debt Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 11A Loans Loans (a) 10 799 17 799 0 00– 0 00– Loans (b) 40 000 40 000 40 000 40 000 Bonds – maturity value $53,000,000 51 655 51 312 51 655 51 312 Euro Bond – maturity value $100,000,000 (b) 99 802 99 621 99 802 99 621 Bills of exchange and promissory notes 0 00– 13 489 0 00– 13 489 202 256 222 221 191 457 204 422

(a) Loans advanced by venture partners accepted by controlled entities on the condition that the loans are not callable, refer Note 19 related party and other disclosures. (b) These loans are repayable in Japanese Yen. Currency swap contracts have been undertaken to effectively remove the currency risk associated with these loans.

Loans at the reporting date are payable as follows: within one year 110 601 31 288 99 802 13 489 within one to two years 0 00– 99 621 0 00– 99 621 within two to five years 51 655 51 312 51 655 51 312 more than five years 40 000 40 000 40 000 40 000 202 256 222 221 191 457 204 422

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12. Provisions and payables Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 Notes $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 12A Liabilities to employees Salaries and wages 7 478 8 030 7 277 6 951 Annual Leave 29 694 30 523 29 235 30 349 Annual Leave Bonus 4 573 4 814 4 523 4 781 Long Service Leave (a) 50 197 50 729 49 125 50 439 Superannuation (b) 13 845 12 932 13 845 12 932 Separation and redundancy 21 040 12 376 21 040 12 376 126 827 119 404 125 045 117 828

(a) The notional value of long service leave entitlements not expected to be settled within 12 months has been discounted at 4.5%, a net discount rate determined by the Australian Government Actuary, which effectively discounts expected future cash flows at the Australian Government long term bond rate. (b) Commonwealth Superannuation liability from 1992 to 1996 for ABC employees previously regarded as not eligible to join the PSS super scheme. An amount of $6.6 million is shown as a receivable in respect of productivity contributions.

12B Suppliers Trade Creditors 24 746 30 007 23 998 29 283 Other Creditors 12 283 8 973 8 843 8 619 37 029 38 980 32 841 37 902 12C Other Provision of cessation of business – Arnbridge Group 0 810 0 101 0 00– 0 00– 0 810 0 101 0 00– 0 00–

13. Equity (consolidated)

Accumulated Asset TOTAL results revaluation EQUITY reserve $’000 $’000 $’000

Balance 1 July 1996 160 692 120 337 281 029 Surplus/(Deficit) 13 113 0 00– 13 113 Net revaluation adjustment (a) 0 00– (4 847) (4 847) Transfers to/(from) reserves 0 00– 0(450) 0(450) Changes in accounting policies 0 00– 0 00– 0 00– Balance 30 June 1997 173 805 115 040 288 845

(a) Property included in Capital Works in Progress that was subject to a valuation at 30 June 1996. Capitalised in 1996–97 and transferred to reserves.

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14. Financial assets Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 Notes $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 14A Cash Cash at bank and on hand 9 802 20 475 3 418 3 305 14B Receivables Goods and services 6 780 6 767 6 203 5 736 Accrued revenue 3 222 4 288 3 210 4 188 Controlled entities 0 00– 0 00– 12 239 23 094 Bills of exchange and promissory notes – maturity 53 510 46 331 53 510 46 331 value $53 760 564 (1996 $46 709 187) Interest rate hedging expenditure 13 899 7 482 13 899 7 482 Other debtors 8 849 15 679 8 725 15 689 86 260 80 547 97 786 102 520 Provision for doubtful debts 0 (79) 0 (440) 0 (79) 0(233) Provision for debt forgiveness – Arnbridge Pty Limited 0 00– 0 00– (4 754) (4 754) Provision for debt forgiveness – Australia Television 0 00– 0 00– (6 000) (6 000) International Pty Limited

86 181 80 107 86 953 91 533 Receivables include amounts overdue by – less than 30 days 2 958 2 294 2 843 2 278 – less than 60 days 1 540 1 354 1 495 0 979 – more than 60 days 1 327 0 867 1 272 0 517

5 825 4 515 5 610 3 774 14C Investments Shares in subsidiary at cost (a) 0 00– 0 00– 0 250 0 00– Investments in Subsidiary 0 00– 0 00– 0 00– 0 250

0 00– 0 00– 0 250 0 250

(a) Sydney Symphony Orchestra Holdings Pty. Limited was incorporated in Australia on 15 February 1996 with a paid up capital of $2. Shares to the value of $250 000 were issued to the Corporation on 30 June 1997. The Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Corporation.

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15. Non financial assets Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 Notes $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 15A Land and buildings Freehold Land – Directors’ Valuation 1996 0 113 0 266 0 113 0 266 Freehold Land – Independent Valuation 1996 84 886 84 783 84 886 84 783 84 999 85 049 84 999 85 049

Buildings on freehold land – Directors’ Valuation 1996 0 921 1 100 0 921 1 100 Buildings on freehold land – Independent Valuation 1996 272 529 269 390 272 529 269 390 Accumulated Depreciation (20 241) (14 822) (20 241) (14 822) 253 209 255 668 253 209 255 668

Leasehold Land – Directors’ Valuation 1996 0 180 0 170 0 180 0 170 Leasehold Land – Independent Valuation 1996 1 000 1 000 1 000 1 000 Accumulated Depreciation 0 (82) 0 (60) 0 (82) 0 (60) 1 098 1 110 1 098 1 110

Leasehold Buildings – Directors’ Valuation 1996 0 154 0 104 0 154 0 104 Leasehold Buildings – Independent Valuation 1996 1 632 1 346 1 632 1 346 Accumulated Depreciation 0(110) 0 (81) 0(110) 0 (81) 1 676 1 369 1 676 1 369

Leasehold Improvements – at cost 7 815 6 731 7 597 6 515 Accumulated Amortisation (5 277) (4 485) (5 257) (4 481) 2 538 2 246 2 340 2 034 Total Land and Buildings 343 520 345 442 343 322 345 230

15B Plant and equipment Directors’ Valuation 1987 27 756 30 647 27 756 30 647 Independent Valuation 1988 54 636 59 336 54 636 59 336 Accumulated Amortisation (68 265) (83 398) (68 265) (83 398) 14 127 6 585 14 127 6 585

At cost 182 761 164 639 180 526 162 584 Accumulated Amortisation (77 732) (50 795) (77 066) (50 334) 105 029 113 844 103 460 112 250

Music Library – Independent Valuation 1997 (a) 20 000 0 00– 20 000 0 00– Plant and Equipment (excluding CWIP) 139 156 120 429 137 587 118 835

Capital works in progress at cost (CWIP) 6 348 28 594 6 348 28 594 Total plant and equipment (including capital works in progress) 145 504 149 023 143 935 147 429 Total infrastructure, plant and equipment (excluding capital works in progress) 1.25C 482 676 465 871 480 909 464 065

(a) The music library previously expensed on purchase was capitalised at a value of $20 million based on an independent valuation by the Australian Valuation Office. The music library was taken up as an asset and abnormal revenue in the financial statements as at 30 June 1997.

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15. Non Financial assets (continued)

TABLE A – Movement summary 1996–97 for all assets irrespective of valuation basis (Consolidated only)

Item Land Buildings Total Other Total land and infrastructure, buildings plant & equipment

$’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 Gross value as at 1 July 1996 86 219 278 671 364 890 254 622 619 512 Additions: 103 4 509 4 612 26 805 31 417 Revaluations: ––––– Disposals: (143) (129) (272) (16 274) (16 546) Other Movements: 0 0 0 20 000 20 000 Gross Value as at 30 June 1997 86 179 283 051 369 230 285 153 654 383 Accumulated Depreciation/ Amortisation as at 1 July 1996 60 19 388 19 448 134 193 153 641 Depreciation/amortisation charge for assets held 1 July 1996 22 6 174 6 196 22 935 29 131 Depreciation/amortisation charge for additions – 66 66 471 537 Adjustment for revaluations ––––– Adjustment for Disposals – – – (11 602) (11 602) Adjustment for Other movements ––––– Accumulated Depreciation/ 82 25 628 25 710 145 997 171 707 Amortisation as at 30 June 1997 Net book value as at 30 June 1997 86 097 257 423 343 520 139 156 482 676 Net book value as at 1 July 1996 86 159 259 283 345 442 120 429 465 871

Table B – Summary of balances of assets at valuation as at 30 June,1997 (Consolidated only)

Item Land Buildings Total Other Total land and infrastructure, buildings plant & equipment

$’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 As at 30 June 1997 Gross value 86 179 275 236 361 415 102 392 463 807 Accumulated Depreciation/ Amortisation ( 82) (20 351) (20 433) (68 265) (88 698) Other movements ––––– Net book value 86 097 254 885 340 982 34 127 375 109

As at 30 June 1996 Gross value 86 219 271 940 358 159 89 983 448 142 Accumulated Depreciation/ Amortisation ( 60) (14 903) (14 963) (83 398) (98 361) Other movements ––––– Net book value 86 159 257 037 343 196 6 585 349 781

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15. Non Financial assets (continued) Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 Notes $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 15C Inventories Retail Inventory 6 425 6 195 6 425 6 195 In progress 1 357 0 389 1 357 0 389 Provision for stock obsolescence 0(267) 0(250) 0(267) 0(250)

Inventories held for sale (at cost) 7 515 6 334 7 515 6 334

TV Programs Purchased 12 617 12 991 12 617 12 991 Produced 21 024 22 078 21 024 22 078 In progress 11 841 8 458 11 841 8 458

1.25A 45 482 43 527 45 482 43 527

Engineering Inventory 0 026 0 274 0 026 0 274 Provision for stock obsolescence 0 00– 0 (34) 0 00– 0 (34)

0 026 0 240 0 026 0 240

53 023 50 101 53 023 50 101 15D Intangibles Subscription television satellite broadcasting licence Directors valuation – 1996 0 00– 0 450 0 00– 0 00–

15E Other non-financial assets Prepaid property rentals 0 196 0 140 0 196 0 140 Other prepayments 17 541 15 997 16 717 15 777

17 737 16 137 16 913 15 917

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16. Reconciliation of cash flows from operating activities to net cost of services Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

Net cash flows provided (used) by operating activities 23 586 (4 004) 31 302 6 606

Depreciation and amortisation (29 670) (28 630) (29 446) (28 490) (Increase) decrease in provision for doubtful debts 0 361 0(207) 0 154 0 00– Gain on disposal of property plant and equipment 1 268 3 277 1 268 3 077 Loss on disposal of property plant and equipment 0(492) (1 071) 0(492) (1 932) Accrued interest 0(635) 0(692) 0(635) 0(692) Valuation of music library 20 000 0 00– 20 000 0 00– Payments to controlled entities 0 00– 0 00– (14 933) 0 00– Write back of accumulated depreciation 0 00– 30 024 0 00– 30 024 Debt forgiveness (a) 0 00– 4 358 0 00– (10 754) Sales tax refund on property plant and equipment 0 039 1 794 0 00– 0 00–

Changes in assets and liabilities Increase (decrease) in receivables (3 806) 14 504 (3 321) 14 206 Increase in other current assets 1 600 9 344 0 996 9 677 Increase in other non current assets 2 340 7 297 2 265 7 373 Increase in inventories 2 922 6 109 2 922 6 109 Decrease in creditors 3 023 18 978 6 842 17 224 Increase in provisions (7 423) (28 941) (7 217) (30 346)

Operating result (deficit) before extraordinary items 13 113 32 140 9 705 22 082

Parliamentary appropriations (531 212) (522 236) (531 212) (522 236) Resources received free of charge (56 900) (75 500) (56 900) (75 500)

Net cost of services (574 999) (565 596) (578 407) (575 654)

(a) In 1995–96 the ABC provision for debt forgiveness included $4 754 369 for Arnbridge Pty Limited and $6 000 000 for Australia Television International Pty Limited. Consolidated included $4 358 467 debt forgiven by a third party.

17. External financing arrangements Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

Total facilities 194 000 207 500 194 000 207 500 Amount of facility used (193 000) (206 500) (193 000) (206 500)

Facility available 1 000 1 000 1 000 1 000

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18. Remuneration of directors ABC 1997 1996 $ $ Aggregate amount of superannuation payments in connection with the retirement of directors 13 099 8 209

Other remuneration received or due and receivable by directors of the Corporation 592 752 486 850

605 851 495 059

$ Number Number 0 – 09 999 1 1 10 000 – 19 999 5 2 20 000 – 29 999 1 5 30 000 – 39 999 – – 40 000 – 49 999 – – 50 000 – 59 999 – 1 70 000 – 79 999 1 – 90 000 – 99 999 1 – 280 000 –289 999 – 1 300 000 –309 999 1 –

19. Related party and other disclosures

Directors of the Corporation The names of chief entity directors who held office during the financial year were: Mark Armstrong (term expired 23 July 1996), Donald McDonald (appointed 24 July 1996), John Bannon, Russell Bate, Diana Gribble, Brian Johns, Ian Macphee, Wendy Silver, Janine Walker (term expired 30 June 1997), Kirsten Garrett (appointed 15 June 1996)

Directors of Controlled Entities

Australia Television International Pty. Limited The names of the directors who held office during the financial year were: Donald McDonald (appointed 18 December 1996), Diana Gribble (appointed 18 December 1996), Russell Bate (appointed 18 December 1996), Brian Johns, Russell Balding, Ian McGarrity (appointed 18 December 1996). Arnbridge Pty. Limited The names of the directors who held office during the financial year were: Donald McDonald (appointed 11 September 1996), Diana Gribble, Russell Bate (appointed 26 July 1996), Brian Johns, Ian McGarrity (appointed 26 July 1996). Sydney Symphony Orchestra Holdings Pty. Limited The names of the directors who held office during the financial year were: Leo Schofield, John Valder, Mary Vallentine, Brian Johns, Renata Kaldor, David Maloney, Deborah Marr, Michael Ullmer, Donna Tsang, Margaret Moore (appointed 19 August 1996), Colin Piper (appointed 19 August 1996), Gary Linnane (appointed 9 July 1996). Music Choice Australia Pty. Limited The names of the directors who held office during the financial year were: Brian Johns, Russell Balding.

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19. Related party and other disclosures (continued)

Controlled entities Transactions between related parties are on normal commercial terms and conditions no more favourable than those available to other parties unless otherwise stated.

Australia Television International Pty Limited There currently exists a line of credit from the Corporation for $6 637 544 which is non-interest bearing. In 1995–96 $6 000 000 was provided for diminution of this line of credit. The Corporation provided resources free of charge at a fair market value of $2 617 500 (1996 $2 822 812). The Corporation incurred no additional cost in providing these facilities and services which would otherwise not have been utilised by the Corporation. Legal, financial, taxation, accounting, secretarial and operational services amounting to $2 169 927 were provided by the Corporation to Australia Television International Pty Limited. Charges reflect fully attributed costs based on the Corporation’s transfer pricing system. Interest amounting to $36 000 was paid by Australia Television International Pty Limited to the Corporation.

Arnbridge Pty Limited In 1993–94 the Corporation received a special appropriation for the establishment of a subscription television service which had been advanced in the form of an unsecured interest free loan of $12.5 million to Arnbridge Pty Limited. On 16 July 1996 the Minister for Communications and the Arts, called for the return of $6.9 million dollars from the original appropriation. This was repaid during the year. An amount of $4 754 369 was provided for diminution of the balance of the loan in the 1995–96 year. On consolidation this amount has been eliminated. Legal, financial, taxation, accounting, secretarial and operational services amounting to $153 563 were provided by the Corporation to Arnbridge Pty Limited. Charges reflect fully attributed costs based on the Corporation’s transfer pricing system. Interest amounting to $32 351 was paid by Arnbridge Pty Limited to the Corporation.

Australian Information Media Pty Limited Due to the Memorandum of Understanding dated December 1995 between related parties and the Memorandum dated 17 September 1996 by Fairfax Multimedia Holdings Pty Limited, liabilities to other creditors will be extinguished in full and in priority to related party creditors. Any residual cash will be distributed to the related parties with the balance of any loans due to such parties being forgiven in full. During the financial year the Corporation reimbursed Australian Information Media Pty. Limited $89 780, for employee entitlements paid to AIM employees who were former employees of the ABC.

Sydney Symphony Orchestra Holdings Pty. Limited The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Corporation. In 1996-97 the company operated for a full year (1995–96 four months trading). During the year the Corporation paid cash to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Holdings Pty. Limited (SSOH) of $4 140 458. This was made up of appropriation funding $6 653 123, less payment for ABC employees and services $2 513 665. In 1996-97 the SSOH issued 250 000 $1 shares to the Corporation.

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20. Remuneration of officers Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 $ $ $ $

Included in employee related expenses is total remuneration received or due and receivable – including performance pay and accumulated benefits due to executives who retired during the year 3 028 767 1 471 093 2 863 266 1 772 239

Executives whose remuneration was between 1997 1996 1997 1996 $ Number Number Number Number

100 000–109 999 3 – 3 1 110 000–119 999 1 – 1 1 120 000–129 999 3 – 3 1 130 000–139 999 2 1 3 1 140 000–149 999 1 3 1 2 150 000–159 999 – – – 1 160 000–169 999 1 2 1 – 170 000–179 999 – – – 1 180 000–189 999 1 – 1 1 190 000–199 999 2 – 2 1 200 000–209 999 – 1 – – 210 000–219 999 – – – – 220 000–229 999 – 1 – – 240 000–249 999 1 – 1 – 300 000–309 999 1 – – 1 530 000–539 999 1 – 1 –

The Managing Director’s remuneration is included in Note 18, Remuneration of Directors.

21. Remuneration of auditors Consolidated ABC 1997 1996 1997 1996 $ $ $ $

Amounts received, or due and receivable, by the auditors for Auditing the financial statements 277 000 248 000 248 000 211 600

Total amount payable to the Australian National Audit Office for the audit of the Corporation and controlled entities financial statements. No other services were provided by the auditors.

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22. Trust funds 1997 1996 1997 1996 Notes $ $ $ $

The Corporation is trustee for foundations Ian Reed Sir Charles Moses with accumulated funds at 30 June as follows: Foundation Foundation

Revenues 32 529 29 158 0 015 0 050 Expenses (3 352) (21 379) 0 0– 0 00– Surplus for year 29 177 7 779 0 015 0 050

Fund opening balance 401 130 393 351 3 172 3 122

Fund closing balance 430 307 401 130 3 187 3 172

The foundations funds are held in authorised trustee investments.

23. Controlled entities The Corporation has nine 100% owned controlled entities, all incorporated in Australia. 1997 1997 1996 Country of Beneficial Book value of Contribution to Contribution to Incorporation Percentage held imediate chief consolidated consolidated by economic entity entity investment operating surplus operat ingsurplus gain/(loss) gain/(loss) % $ $’000 $’000 Chief Entity: Australian Broadcasting Corporation N/A – – 14 198 30 901 Controlled entities of Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Australia Television International Pty Limited Australia 100% 0 100 (3 102) 0 0141 Music Choice Australia Pty Limited Australia 100% 0 005 0 00– 0 00– Arnbridge Pty Limited Australia 100% 0 002 0 453 0 459 Australian Information Media Pty Limited Australia 100% 4 558 000 0 274 0 (603) The News Channel Pty Limited Australia 100% 4 670 236 0(355) (1 772) AIM Holdings Australia Pty Limited Australia 100% 0 002 0 00– 0 00– Equipco Australia Pty Limited Australia 100% 0 002 0 008 0 00– AIM West Pty Limited Australia 100% 2 573 272 0 00– 3 380 Sydney Symphony Orchestra Holdings Pty Limited Australia 100% 250 002 1 637 0 678 Provision for diminution of investments (11 801 512) 0 00– 0 00–

250 109 13 113 33 184

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Financial Resources Summary – Cash 1996-97 1996-97 1995-96 Cash Cash Cash Budget Actual Actual $'000 $'000 $'000 BUDGETARY (CASH) BASIS Components of Appropriation Division 151-01-01 499 738 499 738 500 635 General Activities - Domestic Division 151-01-02 13 494 13 494 13 887 General Activities - Radio Australia Division 811-01-01 9 700 9 700 5 264 Capital Works & Services - Domestic Division 813-01-01 8 280 8 280 2 450 Australia Television - International

Sub Total ABC Appropriation 531 212 531 212 522 236

Total Other Revenue 113 181 133 547 118 900

Plus cash on hand at beginning of year 3 566 3 566 8 744 less cash on hand at end of year (7 671) (7 671) (3 566)

Total ABC outlays 640 288 660 654 646 314

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contents Page 1. Television Program Analysis 101 2. ABC Radio Networks - Content Analysis 102 3. Concerts and Attendances 103 4. ABC Staff Profile 1995–96 103 5. ABC Organisation 104 6. ABC Code of Practice 104 7. Broadcasting Awards 107 8. Enterprises Awards 110 9. Other Awards 111 10. NAC Membership 111 11. NAC Recommendations 111 12. Independent Complaints Review Panel 113 13. Radio Transmitters 114 14. Television Transmitters 117 15. Radio Australia Transmitters 119 16. Consultants 120 17. Ministerial Powers 120 18. Reports on Particular Matters 120 19. Discretionary Grants 120 20. Advertising and Market Research 120 21. Audit Subcommittee 120 22. ABC Offices 121 23. ABC Shops 124

100 appendices 101 l Hours Transmitted Hours Transmitted Australian Productions All Productions 799 3 959888 4 758 4 223 5 111 56.6 58.3 1 372 7 036 1 460 8 413 7 300 8 760 96.0 100.0 Tlme Aust Tlme of Tota Prlme OtherCent Total Per Prlme OtherCent Total Per * Promotions figures are estimates. Figures are rounded to the nearest hour. Total Less Promotions GRAND TOTAL ArtsChildrensComedyCurrent AffairsDocumentaryDramaEducation 22 7 217Entertainment 47 454Features 450 53 569Movies 11 476 457 785News 63 98 23Religious 0 70.8 30.3 58 97.4 116Sport 161 674 819 21.7Transmission 75 35.9Promotions* 260 697 819 1 88 45.4 208 56 226 88.2 36 52.0 2 163 1 474 2 227 284 6 616 580 119 39 89 40 1 510 99.4 492 673 806 40 203 3 339 7 17.2 264 322 41 100.0 44 267 0 7.7 9.2 322 0.5 378 353 250 13 44.7 746 1 576 3.1 86.0 100.0 3.7 75 84.7 572 1 576 790 208 18.0 89 6.5 9.0 10 284 3 164 39 89 684 492 6 1.9 90 400 264 694 5.6 9 93 439 347 7.9 15 1.1 5.0 4.0 0.2 Television Program Analysis Program Television Appendix 1 Appendix Appendix 2 ABC Radio Networks - Content Analysis

National Networks Hours per Week Radio National Classic FM Triple J News Radio Hours % Hours % Hours % Hours %

Arts 17 10.0 4 2.4 Arts Performance 3 1.7 3 1.5 Classical Music 2 1.1 120 71.4 Comedy 1 0.4 1 0.6 Contemporary Music 126 75.2 Current Affairs 22 13.3 11 6.5 Live Music 20 11.7 2 0.9 News 18 10.6 7 3.9 5 3.1 130 77.3 Open Learning 6 3.6 Parliament 10 6.0 Radio Australia 8 5.7 1 0.6 Religious 5 3.0 2 1.1 Rural 4 2.2 4 2.4 Specialist ** 21 12.3 2 1.2 Specialist Music 34 20.2 16 10.4 16 9.5 Sport 10 6.0 Topical Issues* 27 15.9 14 8.3

Local Radio Hours per Week Metropolitan Regional Hours % Hours %

Current Affairs 12.2 7.3 13.4 8.0 News 20.8 12.4 17.1 10.2 Religious 2.9 1.7 2.9 1.7 Rural – – 6 3.2 Specialist ** 0.5 0.3 0.5 0.3 Specialist Music 2.9 1.7 2.9 1.7 Sport 12.7 7.6 13 7.9 Topical Issues* 115.9 69 112 66.9

Notes Each Network Broadcasts 168 hours per week. * Topical issues includes audience involvement eg talkback ** Specialist includes Science, Humanities etc

102 appendices 103 91 25 936 418 377 364 266 116 2294 Services 655 937 253 Total Average Total Average 1996–97 1995–96 1 009 477 Concerts Attendances Attendance Concerts AttendancesAttendance Strategy & Resources Current Services Production Networks Mgmt Business Development 066292011 302 5009101183418018 5006611621928016 200766149414012 3006461299 000430725 0 000 0000250 ances Concerts Technology Enterprises Human News and Regional Program National Corporate Finance & Total Concerts and Attend Concerts and Total 503 83 153 149 741 1029 1211 571 33 414 4887 New South Wales 30 82 153 97 292 179 799 316 33 313 as at 30 June 1996 VictoriaQueenslandSouth Australia 602 Western AustraliaTasmaniaNorthern Territory 128 8 11 8 ACT 000125561 Overseas 1 6 0 19 95 99 370 184 0 40 Appendix 4 1995–96 Profile ABC Staff Grand Total 741 New South Wales and ACT New South Wales ConcertsPaid Orchestral School ConcertsFree ConcertsTotalVictoria Paid Orchestral ConcertsSchool ConcertsFree Concerts 127TotalQueensland 210 118Paid Orchestral ConcertsSchool Concerts 52Free Concerts 87 1 654Total 1 18 456South Australia 155 360Paid Orchestral Concerts 111 383School Concerts 41 180Free Concerts 63Total 355 786 1 110383 5 338 957 120 21 908Western Australia Paid Orchestral Concerts 36 983School Concerts 225 796 50 526 29 133Free Concerts 80Total 534 4 1 882 227 794 105 10 587 32 974Tasmania 47 89 116 296Paid Orchestral Concerts 3School Concerts 10 5 000 96Free Concerts 151 701 129 1 137 18 363Total 454 1 80 800 1 11 878Australia 123 142 1 705 74 957 26 1 250Paid Orchestral Concerts 170 26 933 391 53School Concerts 4 30 000 27 91Free Concerts 1 188 18 215 61 324 959 955 1 42 599 48 000 000 30 23 158 174 7 666 77 32 524 119 701 12 000 25 000 20 140 804 39 244 1 547 89 104 217 916 284 3 155 808 000 25 17 533 1 706 674 423 9 987 105 1 157 8 005 179 1 11 276 77 84 8 957 95 482 1 233 8 005 15 102 869 499 30 000 89 848 53 787 3759 25 527 232 185 909 52 30 000 95 1 575 15 479 7 530 128 061 37 324 496 20 000 131 6 20 000 642 006 301 718 5 123 012 14 215 144 1 294 15 1 918 106 524 2369 63 188 723 384 740 12 582 53 457 Appendix 3 Appendix Concerts and Attendances Executive Engineer Trans & New Tech: Appendix 5 Brian Bailey Appendix 6 National Mgr Technical Operations TV: ABC Organisation Grant Rogers (a) ABC Code of Executive Engineer: Mike Bridle ABC Board and senior management at Practice Senior Policy Officer: Margaret Cassidy date of publication (October 1997) National Mgr AlphaTec: Brian Henebery 1 Preamble National Transmission Mgr (R): Brian ABC Board Hancock The ABC’s place in the broadcasting Chair: Donald McDonald National Mgr Comms (R): Jim Toogood system is distinctive because of its Deputy Chair: Diana Gribble Mgr Technology Research & Charter, which gives the Corporation Directors: John Bannon; Russell Bate; Development: Spencer Lieng unique responsibilities, and because of Ian Callinan: Kirsten Garrett (staff Mgr ABC Digital: James Bowden other provisions under the Australian elected); Ian McPhee; Wendy Silver Mgr Radio Business Development: Broadcasting Corporation Act, 1983, Managing Director: Brian Johns Steve Ford (a) which give the Corporation particular News and Current Affairs ABC Enterprises: responsibilities, for example, the Head News & Current Affairs: Paul Gen Mgr: Terry Moloney provision of an independent news Williams Head Retail: Don Walker service. Head News: Norman Taylor Publisher Books: Matthew Kelly The ABC Act guarantees the editorial Head Current Affairs: Lindy Magoffin Audio Head: Bernadette Neubecker independence of the Corporation’s Gen Mgr Business Affairs: Carolyn Head Contemporary Music & Music programs. The ABC holds its power to Jones Publishing: Meryl Gross make programming decisions on behalf Mgr Editorial Development & Support: Head Classics: Robert Patterson of the people of Australia, for which it Heather Forbes Head Video: Janine Burdeu is accountable to Parliament, but in Mgr Production Resources: Ian Carroll Head New Media: Ben Cardillo which by law and convention neither International Mgr: Harry Bardwell Head International & Domestic the Government nor Parliament seeks International Editor: Peter Munckton Licensing: Grahame Grassby to intervene. State Heads of News & Current Affairs: Head Sales & Distribution: Tony Jaspers David Robertson, NT; Jillian Attrill, Financial Controller: Andrew Eagleton 2 General Program Codes SA; Richard Lower, TAS; John Cameron, Corporate Management: The guiding principle in the QLD; Peter Ryan (TV), VIC; Stuart Chief of Staff: Janet Clayton application of the following general Heather (Radio), VIC; John Turner, WA. Gen Mgr ABC Development: Ian program codes is context. What is Regional Services: McGarrity unacceptable in one context may be Head: Sue Howard Gen Mgr ABC Corp Affairs: Roger Grant appropriate and acceptable in another. Gen Mgr Policy and Development: Kate Gen Mgr Strategic Communications: However the use of language and Dundas Geoff Heriot images for no other purpose but to State Branch Mgrs: Liz McGrath, ACT Gen Mgr Policy & Planning: Pauline offend is not acceptable. (Rep); Kate Miller, NSW; Tony Garde The code is not intended to ban certain Bowden, NT; Bob Wurth, QLD; Michael Human Resources types of language or images from bona Mason, SA; Rob Batten, TAS; Murray Head: Jacquie Hutchinson. fide dramatic or literary treatments, nor Green, VIC; Geoff Duncan, WA. National Employee Relations Mgr: Colin is it intended to exclude such National Networks: Palmer references from legitimate reportage, Head: Andy Lloyd-James National Human Resources Policy & debate or documentaries. Where Gen Mgr Network Television: Penny Planning Mgr: Alan Bull appropriate, audiences will be given Chapman National Training & Development Mgr: advance notice of the content of the Television Programmer: Hugh McGowan Sandy Forbes program. Network Mgr Radio National: Steven Finance and Business Services Alward Head: Russell Balding 2.1 Violence Network Mgr ABC Classic FM: Peter Financial Controller Corporate & The presentation or portrayal of James Support: Eugene Remedios (a) violence must be justifiable, or else the Network Mgr Triple J: Ed Breslin Financial Controller Content material should not be presented. Network Mgr NewsRadio: Dr. Ian Wolfe Production: Tony Coulter (a) Particular attention should be paid to Head Radio Australia: Jean-Gabriel Financial Controller Broadcasting: Sue the portrayal of violence against Manguy Crane women. Head ABC Multimedia: Colin Griffith (a) Gen Mgr, Group Audit: David Pendleton In news and current affairs programs, Program Production Corporate Chief Accountant: John violent events should never be Thomson (a) Head: Don Reynolds sensationalised or presented for their Gen Mgr Property Services: Laurie Head of Program Production: Don own sake. Reynolds Arthur (a) Gen Mgr Major Production Resources: Gen Mgr Information Technology In drama programs, the aim is not to Lynton Franzi Services: Christine Rogers see how much violence will be Mgr Television Victoria: David Barker Reengineering Project Mgr: Wayne Rosen tolerated, but how little is necessary Gen Mgr Legal & Copyright: Judith Walker to achieve honest ends without undue Technology and Strategy dramatic compromise. Head: Colin Knowles Note: This is a broad guide, it does Mgr Tech Strategy (Tech): Dilip Jadeja not indicate salary scale nor identify 2.2 Language Mgr Tech Strategy (Satellites): Dick all main position and lines of Variations of language favoured by responsibility. Winston different groups of Australians — (a) means acting. National Mgr TV Capital Works: Alex young or old, well educated or less Marhinin educated, migrants, Aborigines and

104 appendices others — are equally valid and have view. (e) Editorial staff will not be obliged their place in programs. On occasions, to disclose confidential sources 3.3 Aboriginal and Torres Strait the language of one group may be which they are entitled to protect Islander Programs distasteful to another. Use of such at all times. language is permitted provided it is Program makers and journalists should (f) Re-enactments of events will be not used gratuitously and provided the respect Aboriginal and Torres Strait clearly identified as such and language can be justified in the Islander culture. Particular care should presented in a way which will not context of, for example, fiction, be exercised in traditional matters mislead audiences. such as the naming or depicting of documentary, dramatisation, comedy (g) If reported at all, suicides will be and song lyrics. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people after death. reported in moderate terms and 2.3 Sex and Sexuality will usually avoid details of 3.4 Portrayal of Women and Provided it is handled with integrity, method. Avoidance of Stereotypes any of the following treatments of sex (h) Sensitivity will be exercised in and sexuality may be appropriate and Programs will take care to broadcasting images of or necessary to a program: acknowledge the full range of roles interviews with bereaved relatives • it can be discussed and reported in now performed by women. and survivors or witnesses of the context of news, information or Irrelevant references to a woman’s traumatic incidents. documentary; physical characteristics, marital status 4.1 News Flashes or maternity will be avoided. • it can be referred to in drama, lyrics Care will be exercised in the selection or fictional programs; Programs should not promote or of sounds and images and • it can be depicted, implicitly or endorse inaccurate, demeaning or consideration given to the likely explicitly. discriminatory stereotypes of women or composition of the audience. men. 2.4 Discrimination In producing programs using experts, 4.2 News Updates and News The presentation or portrayal of people interviewees and other talent, program Promotions in a way which is likely to encourage makers will ensure that there are News updates and news promotions denigration of or discrimination opportunities for both women and men will not appear during obviously against any person or section of the to present viewpoints. inappropriate programs, especially community on account of race, programs directed at young children. 3.5 Closed Captioning for Hearing ethnicity, nationality, sex, age, Due to their repetitive nature, there Impaired and Deaf People physical or mental disability, will be very little violent material occupational status, sexual preference Closed caption programs will be clearly included in them, and none at all in or the holding of any religious, cultural marked when program information is the late afternoon and early evening. or political belief will be avoided. The provided to the press or when 5 Promotions for Programs requirement is not intended to prevent captioned programs are promoted. the broadcast of material which is Open captioned advice will be provided Program promotions will be scheduled factual, or the expression of genuinely- if technical problems prevent so as to be consistent with the nature held opinion in a news or current scheduled closed captioning. of surrounding programs. affairs program, or in the legitimate Addresses to the nation and events of 6 Warnings context of a humorous, satirical or national significance will be dramatic work. transmitted with closed captioning. Where appropriate, the audience will The ABC will endeavour to increase the be given advance notice of programs 2.5 Privacy amount of closed-captioning or program segments which some The rights of individuals to privacy programming, as funds permit. viewers or listeners could find should be respected in all ABC distressing or disturbing. 4 News and Current Affairs programs. However, in order to provide 7 Television Program information which relates to a person’s (a) Every reasonable effort must be Classifications performance of public duties or about made to ensure that the content of other matters of public interest, news and current affairs programs This system of television program intrusions upon privacy may, in some is accurate, impartial and classification applies the Guidelines for circumstances, be justified. balanced. the Classification of Films and Videotapes issued by the Office of Film 3 Specific Program Codes (b) Demonstrable errors will be and Literature Classification. corrected in a form most suited to 3.1 Children’s Programs the circumstances. Programs having a particular classification under the Office of Film While the real world should not be (c) Impartiality does not require and Literature Classification Guidelines concealed from children, special care editorial staff to be unquestioning; may be modified so that they are will be taken to ensure programs nor should all sides of an issue be suitable for broadcast or suitable for children are likely to watch devoted the same amount of time. broadcast at particular times. unsupervised will not cause alarm or (d) Balance will be sought through the distress. presentation, as far as possible, of 7.1 Classifications 3.2 Religious Programs principal relevant viewpoints on • G — General (suitable for all ages) G programs, which include programs Religious programs may cover matters of importance. The requirement may not always be designed for pre-school and school Christianity, other traditional religions age children: and new religious movements, as well reached within a single program or as analysis and discussion of religious news bulletin, but will be achieved – are suitable for children to watch issues from non-religious points of within a reasonable period. on their own;

105 – may be shown at any time. suitable for the target audience, or a If a complainant making such an • PG — Parental Guidance (parental PG segment in an arts program could allegation does not receive a response guidance recommended for persons appear during a weekend daytime from the ABC within 42 days or is not under 15 years) program. satisfied with the response, the PG programs: There must be sound reasons for any complainant may ask the Convenor of the ICRP to accept the complaint for – may contain adult themes and departure from the time zone for a program classification. review. Further information can be concepts which, when viewed by obtained from the Convenor, those under 15 years, may require In the case of programs which are serious presentations of moral or Independent Complaints Review Panel, the guidance of an adult; GPO Box 688, Sydney, NSW 2001 or by – may be shown between social issues, they may appear outside their normal classification period phoning (02) 9333 5639 8.30 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. on If the Convenor rejects the complaint weekdays provided that a clear indication of the nature and content of the program is or if the complainant is dissatisfied 7.30 p.m. and 6.00 a.m. on any day with the outcome of the review and of the week. given both in advance of and at the commencement of the program. the complaint is covered by the ABC • M — Mature Audience programs Code of Practice, the complainant may and 7.3 Television Classification make a complaint to the Australian • MA — Mature Adult Audience Symbols. Broadcasting Authority about the programs The classification symbol of the PG, M matter. or MA program (except news, current – are programs which, because of the 8.3 Australian Broadcasting Authority affairs, general information and matter they contain or because of If a complainant: the way it is treated, are sporting programs) being shown will be recommended for viewing only by displayed at the commencement of the – does not receive a response from persons aged 15 years or over. program. the ABC within 60 days; or M programs may be shown between: The classification symbol of the PG, M – the complainant is dissatisfied with noon and 3.00 p.m. on weekdays or MA program (except news, current the ABC response; or that are school days affairs, general information and – the complainant is dissatisfied with 8.30 p.m. and 5.00 a.m. on any day sporting programs) being promoted the outcome of the ICRP review (as of the week. will be displayed during the mentioned above); and promotion. MA programs may be shown – the complaint is covered by the ABC between: 7.4 Consumer Advice Code of Practice; 9.30 p.m. and 5.00 a.m. on any day Audio and visual consumer advice on the complainant may make a of the week. the reasons for an M or MA complaint to the Australian While most adult themes may be classification will be given prior to the Broadcasting Authority about the dealt with, the degree of commencement of an M or MA matter. explicitness and intensity of program. The advice will be in a style Contact Addresses treatment will determine what can consistent with the guidelines on be accommodated in the M and MA consumer advice published by the • Australian Broadcasting Corporation classifications — the less explicit or Office of Film and Literature GPO Box 9994, in the capital city of less intense material will be Classification. your State or Territory included in the M classification and • Independent Complaints Review 8 Complaints the more explicit or more intense Panel material, especially violent Complaints that the ABC has acted GPO Box 688, Sydney, NSW, 2001 material, will be included in the MA contrary to this Code of Practice • Australian Broadcasting Authority classification. should be directed to the ABC in the PO Box Q500, Queen Victoria • X programs and unmodified R first instance. Phone complainants Building, NSW 2000 programs (not suitable for seeking a response from the ABC will television) be asked to put their complaint in writing. All such written complaints – contain material which cannot will receive a response from the ABC appropriately be classified as G, PG, within 60 days from receipt of the M or MA because the material itself written complaint. or the way it is treated renders them unsuitable for television; The ABC will make every reasonable effort to resolve complaints about – must not be shown at all. Code of Practice matters, except where 7.2 Implementation Guidelines a complaint is clearly frivolous, The time zones for each program vexatious or not made in good faith. classification are guides to the most 8.2 Independent Complaints Review likely placement of programs within Panel that classification. They are not hard The ABC has established an and fast rules and there will be Independent Complaints Review Panel occasions on which programs or (ICRP) to review written complaints segments of programs appear in other which relate to allegations of serious time-slots, for example, a PG program bias, lack of balance or unfair or segment of a program designed for treatment arising from an ABC teenage viewers could appear before broadcast or broadcasts. 7.30 p.m. if that is the time most

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Merit Award National Awards Appendix 7 • Use of Humour, Excellent Footage, 1996 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Broadcasting Presentation of Species Life History, Journalism Script, Sound Mix, Klaus Toft, Night • Best Investigative Report, Radio, Awards Of The Bogongs Stephen McDonnell, Geoff • Special Effects, Nick Hilligos, Turtle Thompson, Background Briefing: The World Great Pacific Bank Robbery International Awards • Photography, Klaus Toft, Rock Opera • Best International Report, Chris New York International Radio Festival Okomedia International Environmental Masters, Nick Greenaway, Four 1997 Film Festival, Japan Corners: The Cowards War • Best Journalistic Portrayal of • Best Investigative Report, Sally Gold Medal Ecological Problems for Children & Neighbour, Mark Maley, Four • Special Drama, Gillian Berry, Young People, Nick Hilligoss, Once Corners: The Crown Deals Producer, David Britton, Executive Upon Australia • Best Application of the Television Producer, Co-production with CBC & Bristish Radio Academy Medium to Journalism, Liz Jackson, BBC, Losing Paradise • BT Awards for Technical Innovation, Ashley Smith, Four Corners: Telling • Best Radio Feature, Ron Sims, His Story Producer, Radio National, Rose Gillian Berry, Producer, David Britton, Executive Producer, Co- • Best Coverage of a Current Story TV, Tang, Radio News, Perth, The River Sarah Henderson, Mike Swinson, Flows production with CBC & BBC, Losing Paradise 7.30 Report: Lynne’s Story Finalist • Best Coverage of a Current Story Philia Award for Radio World • Nick Franklin, Encounter-River Spirits Radio, Patrick Condren, Gun Rally Conference On Religion & Peace Series New York Film And Television • Radio Broadcasting, Stephen Festivals • Best Application of the Radio Watkins for weekly program Come Medium to Journalism, Erina Gold Medal Sunday Reddan, Radio Australia, Tahiti Riots ¥ TV Titles and Idents, Kim Hamilton, Christopher Columbus International • Most Outstanding Contribution to Saltwater Soul Film & Video Festival, USA Journalism, State Awards, Max Silver Medal Bronze Plaque Fatchen, South Australia • Original music, Original Spot/TV • Children’s section, Henderson AFI Awards Promotions, ABC TV Idents Bowman Production co-production • AAV Australia Award for Best Mini • Nature and Wildlife, Klaus Toft, Rock with ABC TV, Film Queensland, AFI -series on Television, Rod Allan, Opera & Pacific Film & TV Commission, Producer, ABC/Southern Star BANFF Television Festival, Canada Lizzie’s Library Co-production, Blue Murder BANFF Rockie Award Annual American Television • Complete Post Award for Best • Popular Science Program Category, Promotions and Marketing Conference Episode in a Television Drama Klaus Toft, Night Of The Bogongs (Promax) Series, Santo Cilauro, Producer, Tom Gleisner, Jane Kennedy, Rob Sitch, Chicago International Film Festival Silver Promax Frontline Television Productions for Silver Plaque Award • Overall second, Janie Lalor, ABC TV, Frontline: Keeping Up • Educational Television Production, Producer, Sue Lester, Executive Appearances Harry Hall, Executive Producer, Producer, ABC TV News 1996: A • First Australian Completion Bond David Barrow, Producer/Director, Promotional Campaign Award for Best Achievement in Grant Higgins & Scott Higgins, Bronze Broadcast Design Award Direction in a Television Drama, Writers, A Powerful Choice • Design, Watchout Productions, ABC Michael Jenkins, ABC/Southern Star San Francisco International Film TV News Promotional Campaign Co-production, Blue Murder Festival, USA Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) • Crowley Management Award for Best Annual Awards Screenplay in a Television Drama, Certificate of Merit Ian David, ABC/Southern Star • Nature Category, Klaus Toft, Night • Commended, Education, More Than Words: Writers Co-productions, Blue Murder of The Bogongs • Beyond Television Award for Best 22nd Tourism International Festival Of Commonwealth Broadcasting Performance by an Actress in a Milan Association Award Leading Role in a Television Drama, • Best Film, Klaus Toft, Night of the First Place Claudia Karvan, ABC/Village Bogongs • For Effectiveness in Training, ABC Roadshow Picture Television • Best Short Film, Nick Hilligoss, Radio Training, Mixing, Editing and Co-production, GP: Sing Me a Lullaby Turtle World Filing in the Field • Village Roadshow Pictures Award for Festival du Film de L’Oiseau, France Highly Commended Best Performance by an Actor in a • Cote Picarde Prize, David Luffman, • Effectiveness in Training, Sandra Leading Role in a Television Drama, Jeremy Hogarth, Bobby & The Chung, Susan Kerrigan, Francesca Tony Martin, ABC/Southern Star Banded Stilts Belli, Marcus North, Single Camera Co-production, Blue Murder International Wildlife Film Festival, Continuity Course Missoula, USA European Union Journalist Award • Best film, Best Short TV Program, • Australia, Suzanne Smith, Industrial Klaus Toft, Night Of The Bogongs Reporter, TV News

107 Australian Cinematographers’ Society Owen Craig, Quantum: Mind Switch MBF Health and Well Being Awards National Awards • Highly commended in the same • Radio Report Metropolitan, Mark Golden Tripod category, Geoffrey Burchfield, Bowling, Northern Territory, • Current Affairs, Ron Foley, NSW, Richard Corfield & Own Craig, Robourne - the Way Back Four Corners: Innocence Quantum: Report On Body Parts • Radio Report Regional, Tom • Journalist under 25, Will Berryman, Harwood, Regional Radio Distinction http://: World Wide Web Longreach, Skin Bank. • Documentaries Cinema and TV, Brendan Shaw, NSW, Bohemian The Australian Science 1996 Kellogs Awards Rhapsody Communicators’ Unsung Hero Of • Award for Excellence in Nutrition Australian Science Journalism, Claudia Taranto, two- Accreditation • Joy Mitchell, Senior Researcher, part series on food allergies for The • Mark Lamble,VIC; Brett Ramsay, Quantum Food Program. Julian Mather, Anthony Sines, QLD Australia World Wide Web Conference The Focus Producers’ Festival Awards 1997 Australian Teachers of Media (Ausweb ‘96) 1996 (ATOM) Awards • Best Australian Website in Bronze Mobie • Best Children’s Television, Peita Australia, ABC Online Bolden, Producer, Mick Connolly, • Moving Image -Education/Training, Director, Book Bug - Ben and the Australian Financial Review-Telstra Produced by ABC TV Facilities Alien Invasion Australian Internet Awards Marketing (Vic) Talking Safe Sex • Best Television Series/serial, Klaus • Best Media Website in Australia, Toft, Annette Cooper, Mark Lamble, ABC Online Royal Australian College Of General Jeremy Hogarth, Producers, Natural UN Media Peace Prize Practioners Peter Grieve Award History Unit, Wild Relations • TV Current Affairs, Liz Jackson, Four • Medical Journalism, David Hardaker, • Best Television Drama, Peter Corners: Telling His Story, Virginia Ashley Smith, Producer, Four Andrikidis, Producer and Director an Haussegger, 7.30 Report story on Corners: Chemical Straight Jacket ABC/Village Roadshow co- Aborigines in Broken Hill Highly commended production, GP - Ceremony of Finalists: • Judy Tierney, 7.30 Report: Story on Innocence • TV Current Affairs Report, Judy Irradiated Youngsters from 1940s • Best Science Documentary, Klaus Tierney, 7.30 Report - Irradiated and 1950s Toft, Producer, Natural History Unit, Kids; Mark Bowling, Australian Story, Night of the Bogongs, Australian Country Music Foundation Northern Territory team,Vietnam • Induction to Australian Country • Best Social Issues Documentary, Bikies Rosemary Blight and Mitzi Goldman, Music Hall of Fame, John Nutting, • Radio Report Metropolitan, Carole Regional Program Mgr Townsville (produced for the ABC under the Whitelock, 5AN Adelaide, Sunday Accord), Hatred and presenter of Saturday Night program, Radio Report Regional, Country on Local Radio. • Best Documentary General, Bob Zoe Wilson, 5CK Port Pirie, Tunnel Connolly, Robin Anderson, Vision Awareness, Peter Riley, National Basketball League (NBL) (produced for ABC under the Regional Radio Illawarra, Producers, Awards Accord), Rats in the Ranks Kerry O’Connor and Karen Gough, • Best TV Music Video Clip, Robert • The Gold Atom, Bob Connolly and Fluffy Slippers of Death Klein, TV producer of NBL, Coverage Robin Anderson, (produced for ABC of the local team, the Devils under the Accord), Rats in the Ranks 1997 Public Service Medal • Best TV News Story, Marcus Cheek, • Rudi Munir, Executive Producer, Logies 1997 Sports Journalist, Tasmanian Devils Indonesian Service, Radio Australia final game Gold Logie for his services to international • Induction into the Hall of Fame, broadcasting since 1956 - his Athletics Australia Award Garry McDonald contribution to encouraging • Peter Walsh, Caroline Davidson, awareness of Australia and an Radio Sport, TAS,Coverage of the Silver Logie 1997 Optus Grand Prix Series • Most Outstanding Actress, Alison international understanding of Whyte, GP Australian attitudes on world affairs National Surf Life Saving Australia • Most Outstanding Achievement in in the Asia region Media Awards News, ABC TV News Hobart Port 1996 RACO Media Award from the • Best Radio Support, Tonya Roberts, Arthur Massacre Royal Australian College of Presenter, Producers Katrina Palmer • Most Outstanding Achievement in Ophthalmologists and Trevor Chappell, 3LO Breakfast Comedy, Roy and HG, Club Buggery • Norman Swan, Brigitte Seega, The Queen’s Trust Future Perspectives • Most Outstanding Documentary, Health Report for their program on Forum for Young Adult Australians David Goldie, Somebody Now - muscular degeneration • Selected as participant, Ainslie Nobody’s Children Seven Years On Australian Federation of Aids Hodgkinson, Producer, 720 6WF Michael Daly Awards For Excellence Organisations (AFAO) Awards Perth. In Science & Technology Journalism • Best Overall Award and Best Radio Australia’s Parents Magazine • Radio, Robyn Williams Documentary, Julie Browning, • Award of Merit, The Ferals • Television News or Current Affairs, Hindsight series: Sex, Blood, Drugs Australian Caption Centre Awards Raymond Moynihan,7.30 Report, and Death • Best Overseas Program, ABC TV, • Television Feature, John Millard, • Second prize, Radio Documentary Heartbeat Hot Chips: Bits Bytes And Buddhism category, Stephen Godley, • Innovation - Science & Technology Encounter-The Carer’s Story as a Source of Competitiveness, • TV Current Affairs, Jennifer Cummins, Alexandra Smith, Cathy Johnson, Review: Positive Art & Aids Art

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State and Community Northern Territory Youth Unemployment in Northern Awards Northern Territory Media Awards Suburbs of Adelaide. Australian Capital Territory • Excellence in Radio Journalism, South Australian Rural Media J P Daley Science Awards, Canberra Mark Bowling, Radio Current Affairs Association • Excellence in TV Journalism, • South Australian Rural Journalist of Highly commended Genevieve Hussey the Year, Leight Radford, Presenter, • Tim Lee, Rural Reporter, Melbourne • Excellence in TV Pictorial, Michael SA Country Hour. New South Wales Cox Equal Opportunity Commission Awards NSW Premier Awards • Highly Commended, David (SA) • Inaugural Special History Prize, Bill Marchbanks Award for Cadet of the • Alison Caldwell, 7.30 Report: Bunbury, Producer, Social History Year, Jeremy Geia Coverage of Hindmarsh Island Bridge Unit, Hindsight: Unfinished Business Queensland Affair • Best TV Script, Ian David, ABC Australian Cinematographers’ Society Clear Speech Awards (SA) co-pro with Southern Star Awards (QLD) • Kellie Sloane, News, Leon Bignell, Television, Blue Murder Sports • Inaugural Premier’s Youth In Media Gold Award, Annie White, 7.30 Report: • Current Affairs, Anthony Sines, Highly Commended Story on Young People in Mt Druitt Australian Story: A Town Like Tara • Xavier Minniecon, Weather • TV Magazine, Anthony Sines, Justice Administration Awards (SA) Australian Cinematographers’ Society Australian Story: Sweet Dreams Awards (NSW) • Best News Story, Rose Crane, Yatala Silver Prison Riots Gold • Current Affairs, Brett Ramsay, • Documentaries Cinema & TV, Cockburn Progress Association’s Foreign Correspondent: Mexican Australia Day Award, South Australia Brendan Shaw, Arts & Ent, Drugs Bohemian Rhapsody and • For service rendered in keeping the • Music Clips, Julian Mather, Landline: town alive, 5CK Port Pirie. Laurence McManus, ACS, Bush I Am A Child Tuckerman: Into The Vilest Country Jamestown District Council Award • Dramatised Documentaries, David Highly commended South Australia Maguire, Alex Riley, Indigenous • Current Affairs, Anthony Sines, • For services to broadcasting, 5CK Unit, Black Tracker SGT Australian Story: Kerry’s Story Port Pirie • Telefeatures TV Drama and Mini- • TV Magazine, Brett Ramsay, Foreign Correspondent: Greenbriar Bunker Royal Adelaide Show series, David Maguire, Shootout at • Best Display, ABC Adelaide, Video St Anthony’s Far North Queensland Media Awards Tunnel in the Jubilee Pavilion • Best Radio News Story, Daniel Highly Commended Tasmania • TV Station Breaks/Promos, Doug Barty Sleeman, News, Macquarie Marshes • Best Investigative Radio Report and Australian Cinematographers’ Society Closer Best Radio Feature Story, Ellen Awards (TAS) • News Magazine, Doug Sleeman, McIntyre, Broadcaster • Wildlife and Nature, Campbell Miller, News, Carp Attack Queensland Older People Speak Out Natural History Unit, Rock Opera • Current Affairs, Neale Maude, Four Media Awards MBF Health & Well Being Awards (TAS) Corners: The Road To Nowhere • Electronic, Philip Williams for • Judy Tierney, 7.30 Report: Story on Law Society of NSW Media Award Australian Story: A Soldier’s Journey, Irradiated Youngsters in 1940s & • Susanna Lobez, Law Report: Legal also, Blinky Bill: Old Wombat’s Home 1950s, Tony Malkovic, News Story: Summit Under the Stars (judged to be educational for Cochlear Implant • Television Current Affairs, Murray children in the needs for care of the Tasmanian Football League Awards Hogarth, Reporter, Sue Spencer, aged) • Best TV News Story, Marcus Cheek, Producer, Four Corners: Urgent And South Australia Sports Journalist, Tassie Mariners Secret. Australian Cinematographers’ Society Season Review Catholic Church - Archbishop of Awards SA Victoria Sydney Gold Australian Cinematographers’ Society • Citation in Radio Media, Richard • TV Magazine Category, Andrew Awards (VIC) Glover, Morning presenter 2BL, in Burch, Australian Story: Tom Kruse recognition of people whose body Gold of work reflects values of truth and South Australian Youth Media Awards • Telefeatures, TV Drama & Mini Series, fairness and a genuine spirit of • Young Journalist of the Year and Clive Sell, Mercury Episode 1 service to the community. Best News Story, Interview or Silver Documentary on Radio, Sally Sara, • Documentary, Peter Nearhos, Royal Agricultural Society Rural Radio, Story on Natasha Stott • Radio Journalism, 2BL, Broadcasts Counting the Days Despoja. • Telefeatures, TV Drama & Mini by Richard Glover, Liz Heath, Mike • Best Radio Category, Simon Royal, Carlton and Bob Hughes from Series, Graham Brumley, Mercury Presenter, 5AN Adelaide, Youth Episode 12 Sydney’s Royal Easter Show. suicide and Story about a daughter Better Hearing Australia (NSW Branch) telling her parents of her Highly Commended • Clear Speech Award, Indira Naidoo homosexuality • Clive Sell, Mercury Episode 13 for News • Best News Story, Interview or Rural Press Club of Victoria Documentary on Television, Ian • Best News Story, Tim Lee, Rural Henschke for 7.30 Report: Effects of Reporter

109 Royal Agriculture Society Awards, • Best Marketing Sell Through Video, Golden Guitars Victoria Pride and Prejudice • Highest Selling Album, Lee • Best Feature, Tim Lee, Rural Multi-platinum (wholesale sales in Kernaghan’s 1959 Reporter, Melbourne excess of $1.5 million) • Vocal Collaboration of the Year, Western Australia • The Wiggles Wake up Jeff Tania & Lee Kernaghan A Bushman • The Wiggles Big Red Car Can’t Survive Australian Cinematographers’ Society • Female Vocalist of the Year, Tania Awards (WA) • The Wiggles Yummy Yummy • The Wiggles Wiggletime Kernaghan Where the Murray Meets Highly Commended • The Wiggles Wiggledance the Darling • TV Promos & IDs, Rick Harvey, WAFL • Bananas in Pyjamas Birthday Special • Male Vocalist of the Year, Graeme Summer Titles • Pride & Prejudice Connors The Road Less Travelled • TV Magazine, Rick Harvey, Gardening • APRA Song of the Year, Graeme Australia: Jarrah Forest Platinum (wholesale sales in excess Connors The Road Less Travelled of $500,000) • Album of the Year, Tania Kernaghan WA State Basketball League Award • Bananas in Pyjamas It’s Music Time • Best Regional Coverage, Bruce December Moon • ABC For Kids Favourites • Best New Talent, Tina Martyn Lying Anderson, Regional Radio Sports • Playschool Everybody Sing Presenter, Geraldton in my Bed • Wild Rhapsody • Instrumental Song of the Year, Better Hearing Australia (WA Branch) • Wallace & Gromit, A Close Shave Lawrie Minson Action Jackson • Clear Speech Award, Trevor Jenkins, Gold (wholesale sales in excess of • Video Track of the Year, Mark O’Shea ABC TV Sport $250,000) The Dreamer • Favourite Radio Voice, Peter • Benaud to Border • Producer of the Year, Garth Porter Holland, ABC TV/Radio, Afternoon • Blinky Bill Favourite Cafe Program on 6WF Victorian Country Music Awards • Wallace & Gromit, The Wrong • Best New Talent, Tina Martyn Trousers • Best Female Vocalist, Tania • The Best of Some Mothers do ‘ave Kernaghan ‘em • Best Male Vocalist, Mitchell Shadlow Appendix 8 • Sense & Sensibility • Song of the Year, Tania Kernaghan AIM 1996 Awards for Marketing & Garth Porter Where the Murray Enterprises Awards Excellence Meets the Darling (Australian Marketing Institute) - MO Awards • Best Communication Category, Pride ABC Classics • Male Country Performer of the Year, & Prejudice Graeme Connors Editor’s Choice, Gramophone • Best Retail Category, The Wiggles, • Female Country Performer of the Magazine Wake Up Jeff Year, Gina Jeffreys • NSW - Award for Marketing • Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Meale Industry Awards Symphony No. 1 Excellence (Communication Strategy), Pride & Prejudice Gold (sales of 35,000 units) Editor’s Choice, Soundscapes • The Wiggles Wake up Jeff Magazine ABC Contemporary Music • Bananas in Pyjamas The Album • Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Sun • Gina Jeffreys Up Close Music Country Music Association Of • Don Spencer & Terry Murray Musical • Ensemble of the Classic Era Haydn Australia Times Tables Trios • Entertainer of the Year, Lee • Best of Play School • Donna Coleman Rags to Riches Kernaghan • Tania Kernaghan December Moon ARIA - Best Australian Classical Aria Awards Platinum (sales of 70,000 units) Record • Best Childrens Album, The Wiggles, • The Wiggles, Wiggly Wiggly ¥ Australian Chamber Orchestra Wake up Jeff Christmas Sculthorpe. Apra Awards • Lee Kernaghan, 1959 Gold (sales of 35,000 units) • Most performed Children’s Work, The • Gina Jeffrey’s, The Flame ¥ Yvonne Kenny Simple Gifts Wiggles Wake up Jeff • It’s Play School • ABC Classic FM Swoon ¥ Most performed Country Work, Lee Double Platinum (140,000 units) ABC Classic FM Recording of the Year Kernaghan 1959 • Triple J’s Hottest 100 #3 Awards Tamworth Country Music Festival Australia’s Parents Magazine Award • Best Australian Recording, Peter Songwriters Awards • Best Entertainment, Growing Years Sculthorpe Orchestral Works • Contemporary Country Song, Graeme Awards, ABC for Kids • 24 Hours Listeners’ Choice Award, Connors The Road Less Travelled Peter Sculthorpe Orchestral Works • Country Novelty/Comedy, Jim ABC Audio Haynes/Roger Corbett When Cheryl ABC Video Went Feral TDK Award Best Abridged Fiction Production AVSDA 1996 Awards (Australian Video • Gospel, The Sherrah Family Keep in • Gillian Rubenstein, Foxspell Software & Distributors Awards) the Light of the Lord • Highest Selling Children’s Video, • Media Country Song of the Year, The Wiggles Big Red Car Tania Kernaghan Where the Murray • Highest Selling TV Series on Video, Meets the Darling Pride and Prejudice • Highest Selling Comedy, Bargearse

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ABC Licensing Recovery be examined with a view to better Appendix 10 Toy & Hobby Retailer Industry Awards reflecting non-metropolitan perspectives. • Best License in 1996, Bananas in NAC Membership Recovery Pyjamas The NAC thanks the makers of Recovery International Award Membership for year to 30 June 1997 for their clear and comprehensive • The Family Channel Seal of Quality Continuing response to the National Advisory Award, USA, Bananas in Pyjamas Associate Professor Robin Stuart-Harris Council’s recommendation (July 1996). (NSW) Convenor, Mark Anderson (WA), The statistics included with the ABC Music Publishing Professor Giovanni Carsaniga (NSW), Jo response were particularly helpful in Gemmell (SA), Aimee Heuzenroeder addressing the National Advisory Queensland Recording Industry Sunnie (Tas/NSW), Betchay Mondragon (NT), Council’s concerns regarding rural and Awards Dr Alessandra Pucci, AO (NSW) regional content in Recovery. • Best Film Score, Sean O’Boyle Man However, the NAC wishes to highlight in a Box Appointed From 1 January 1997 the fact that, whilst rural and regional • Special Projects, Sean O’Boyle Kazoo Jillian Crowe (Vic), Troy Dean (Vic), Matthew Draper (ACT), Lesley Bangama stories are featured regularly on Fogarty (Qld/WA), Audrey Tremain Recovery, the style and format of the ABC Books (NSW) program remains predominantly Bush Laureate Awards Competition metropolitan. This is stressed repeatedly Terms Expired 31 December 1996 in feedback from rural youth and is of ¥ Golden Gumleaf Award 1997, Bruce Paula Fraser (Qld), Eva Nagy (SA), Simpson The Packhorse Drover concern to the Council. The NAC will Joseph O’Reilly (Vic), Thong continue to monitor the evolution of Phoumirath (ACT) Recovery and recommends that non- ABC Retail metropolitan interests be reflected in its Sony Music Entertainment Australia overall approach to youth culture. • Award for 30,000 sales across the Camera Work – Sports Heartbeat music series Appendix 11 The NAC commends the excellent Myer Centre Retailer Award 1966 NAC standard of ABC sports camera work, as • ABC Shop Adelaide it continually surpasses its Canberra Centre Excellence in Retail Recommendations contemporaries with clarity, context and Award 1996 continuity giving the viewer the overall • ABC Shop Canberra Violence – Cartoons atmosphere, and excitement of the Penrith Plaza Retailer for November The National Advisory Council (NAC) event being televised. • ABC Shop Penrith acknowledges the concern of the In showing sequences of individual Casuarina Shopping Square Award Australian community regarding movement, however, more consideration • Retail Excellence, Household violence in the media particularly should be given to leaving the flow Category, Darwin ABC Shop through cartoons, as was the case in unbroken, allowing the camera to follow the screening of Twins of Destiny. The the performers for at least a few NAC recommends that the ABC, as a seconds, avoiding constant camera matter of policy, reviews the changes, unusual angles or perspectives. procedures by which cartoons are Camera Work – News Current Affairs Appendix 9 assessed and acquired in relation to the increasing level of violence and The NAC notes that in many television Other Awards negativity in new productions. interviews especially during News and Current Affairs programs, vision often Annual Report Awards 1997 Repeats – Pride And Prejudice cuts to a view of the camera operator • Silver Award, Division 1 - The NAC commends ABC Television for whilst the interviewer is speaking. The Accommodation, Communications screening the BBC production of Pride NAC suggests that if a cutaway is and Recreation, ABC Annual Report and Prejudice. However, it was an necessary, then either the interviewer 1995–96 unfortunate decision to repeat the or different views of the interviewee is program so soon after the first shown, instead of a shot of the camera screening. The NAC recommends that person. in future, when a program repeat is State-based Current Affairs Programs considered, there is a reasonable time lapse between screenings. As expressed previously (March 1996), the NAC continues to have serious Recovery concerns regarding the diminution of The NAC commends the ABC on its state based current affairs programs on attention to youth programming with ABC Television. The Stateline format is the development of Recovery. However, unable to adequately inform Australian the Council is concerned that the style people on state based issues due to and content of the program are unduly limited funds and a limit of one image-driven. Whilst the “grunge” image program per week, allowing for one or is one with which many young people two issues at the most to be covered. can identify, it is not representative of The NAC recommends that the ABC all youth and can result in the alienation reassess the way in which Television of regional and rural youth particularly. strives to meet the needs of state The NAC recommends that the image of based current affairs and reviews the

111 level of resources put into this area. people/groups who are not well quality of scientific broadcasting. known. Through these fillers the ABC News Updates Heartland would be showcasing the cultural The NAC commends ABC Television on diversity of Australian society. Due to the high standard and the cancellation of the 4pm news popularity of the series Heartland, the update during children’s television Saltwater Soul: Christine Anu NAC recommends the ABC re-run the programs (Recommendation March The NAC commends the ABC on the series. The NAC feels that there has 1996). Following continued production of a program on Christine been an adequate amount of time expressions of concern from parents, Anu. It was a very well produced since the last screening and it will the NAC recommends the removal of program showing great sensitivity, a increase the level of quality Australian the 5pm news update as material sense of history and a sense of content. shown and dialogue used in news personal commitment and triumph on Riverdance stories is often inappropriate for the part of Ms Anu. The NAC children. As stated previously this recommends that the ABC produces Following the popularity of the practice goes against the ABC Code of more similar programs, especially screening of Riverdance earlier in 1996 Practice (4.2). programs that highlight the multicultural the NAC queries the possibility of nature of the Australian society. repeating this program in 1997. Weekend Radio Use of Words – “Controversy”, The NAC recommends that current Landline’s Time-Slot “Controversial” programming wisdom, according to The NAC recommends that the Landline which weekend morning programs program be changed from the 12 noon With a view to recent debates in the must be lightweight, be re-examined. Sunday time-slot to an evening, to allow media, the NAC recommends that the use The weekend is the time when one can primary producers, agricultural students of the words “controversy” and concentrate on radio-listening because and the large number of the population “controversial”, be reserved for issues one’s mind is free from other concerned with landcare and soil and their promoters based on real and preoccupations and more receptive to conservation an opportunity to learn demonstrable evidence and factual serious argument, whereas lightweight from and enjoy this excellent program. information, such as are capable of being items may prove entertaining and rationally and constructively discussed. The Secret World Of Alex Mack stress relieving to listeners about to Triple J – Marketing begin their weekday work. Due to the level of positive feedback from young people, the NAC recommends The NAC recommends that ABC Pronunciation the ABC re-run the children’s program Marketing be more focused on Triple J The NAC recommends that ABC voice The Secret World of Alex Mack. and that promotion material such as coachers, newscasters and interviewers stickers, posters etc. be more readily Repeats be encouraged to eliminate the available. These products are pronunciation, “employeur”, The NAC recommends that if ABC extremely popular and a sticker on unnecessary to underline the difference Television find it necessary to screen your ute is seen as a status symbol. repeats because of funding cuts, why between employer and employee. Triple J not re-run Australian made programs Television Films – Overseas Sale like Janus, Blue Murder, Phoenix etc. The NAC recommends that Triple J The NAC received comments about the adopts a more alternative attitude Quantum lack of ABC produced television films toward broadcasting content, focusing for sale overseas. High quality The NAC is disappointed that Quantum on the culture and music of its programs such as Janus would be programs have received funding cuts. audience and not the broadcasting eminently saleable internationally, if The budget for scientific programs is format – e.g. segmenting programs like they were shot as a television film - already very low. This round of cuts may The Request Fest with the freaked out they could be screened at peak hours, detract substantially from the quality request competition, The Ladies Lounge for example at 8.45pm in Italy and and entertainment value afforded to with Dear Boy, The Morning Show with France, and therefore have high date. The increasing importance of Secret Confessions is a very commercial financial value. The NAC recommends science and medicine to everyday life as format. The general hype of The Request that consideration be given to the ABC new technologies are introduced, calls Fest is also very commercial .e.g. producing television films for export. for further rather than lesser funds announcing the forthcoming songs being available for Quantum. before they are played is extremely Promotions – Fillers commercial. Triple J listeners don’t Quantum Because of some dissatisfaction with want to know what music is coming up. the increased number of promotions The NAC has noted in the past that The playlist also seems repetitive. used as fillers, the NAC recommends Quantum has screened some excellent Rural Woman of The Year that the ABC makes greater use of documentary specials, whether short videos and films produced by produced in house or overseas.In the Due to the phenomenal success and Australian directors, some of which public eye, Quantum has a reputation acceptance by men and women of both have been successfully shown in the for serious scientific reporting. urban and rural background of the ABC past. This would have the additional However, the latest documentary Rural Woman of the Year Award, the benefit of increasing the Australian special Future Fantastic presented by NAC strongly recommends that it is content of programs. Gillian Anderson, was more suitable as imperative that this award continue. It pure entertainment rather than a has been instrumental in lifting the Fillers – Local Talent science information program. profile of rural women, creating a new The NAC recommends that ABC Given the tight budget, Quantum may awareness of their contribution to the promote more local talent from every attempt to choose overseas productions community and giving all rural women region in Australia as fillers. The talent which lift rather than diminish the the acknowledgment that for so many should, in most cases, be those years has been lacking.

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Transmitters – North West, WA treatment. It further found that there Appendix 13 The NAC notes the continued lack of was no clarification in the program transmitters and resources provided to Independent that BTAL had fulfilled its contractual the North West of Western Australia. obligations and that this amounted to Complaints Review serious lack of balance and unfair Council acknowledges that this treatment of BTAL in the 7.30 Report situation is out of the hands of the Panel broadcast on 18 September 1995. The ABC and with the NTA. 7.30 Report broadcast a summary of The NAC recommends the ABC continue Summary of Reviews the ICRP findings and an apology on to press the Government and NTA on In 1996–97 the Independent 22 January 1997. this issue and keep the Council Complaints Review Panel (ICRP) informed of progress. North Forest Products and Forest completed four reviews, two were Industries Federation (WA) Inc Fantasia on Christmas commenced in the previous year, a North Forest Products and Forest The NAC commends the ABC for its third matter accepted for review in the Industries Federation (WA) Inc Fantasia on Christmas. It was gratifying previous year was abandoned by the made complaints about an interview to see a distinctly Australian complainant, and two new complaints broadcast on 3LO on 24 May 1996 in perspective of Christmas, which made were reviewed. The reviews which the statements, that there excellent use of local talent. undertaken were requested by the would be no forests left in 50 years National Association of Forest and that 50,000 species of plants and The Council recommends that similar Industries, Bankers Trust Australia programs are produced in future years animals would be destroyed as a result Limited, North Forest Products and of logging, were unfair and inaccurate. and that avenues for overseas Forest Industries Federation (WA) Inc, screening be explored. They complained that the discussion and Mr Andrew Casey. was not placed in an informed local Friday Night Movie National Association of Forest context, the claims were inadequately The NAC recommends that the John Industries sourced and the ABC’s response to Hinde, Friday Night movie be returned National Association of Forest complaints was inadequate and to the 8.30pm time slot. In the past Industries (NAFI) complained about inappropriate. The ICRP found that the this has proven to be extremely two items broadcast on the 7.30 Report interview on 3LO was somewhat unfair, popular for several reasons. on 29 September 1995 and 1 November but could not substantiate a claim that • most other networks were not 1995. NAFI asserted that the item the unfair treatment was serious offering movies at this time ‘Woodchip Coops’ broadcast in enough to uphold the complaint. September lacked balance and was Andrew Casey • many people viewed the end of the inaccurate, and that the item ‘Pine working week as relaxing time and Andrew Casey, policy adviser to Stockpile’ broadcast in November also Shadow Federal Employment and were looking for high quality lacked balance and failed to present entertainment at home. Training Minister, complained of unfair relevant viewpoints. Following treatment in PM program on ABC Radio Where possible, these movies should discussions between NAFI and the 7.30 broadcast on 30 August 1996. Mr be of Australian content. Report, additional items were Casey claimed he had spoken to the Signing Of News for Hearing-Impaired broadcast in November and December PM reporter “off the record” and that Viewers which included more overt perspectives his name should not have been used in of the forest industries. The ICRP the report. He further claimed that the In response to inquiries from deaf upheld the complaint, finding that the people, the NAC would welcome use of his name in this way created items lacked balance and failed to “distortion” and “wrong and improper information on the feasibility of signing adequately present principal relevant at least some television newscasts for emphasis”. Mr Casey stated that he viewpoints on a matter of considerable was dissatisfied with the ABC’s the benefit of hearing-impaired viewers public importance. However, the 7.30 with no access to subtitling. response to his initial complaint. The Report was commended for their ICRP upheld Mr Casey’s complaint in attempts to achieve balance over time part, finding that his complaint of by broadcasting the subsequent unfairness in having off-the-record reports. The 7.30 Report broadcast a remarks sourced to him by name was summary of the ICRP findings and an justified but dismissing the claim that apology on 22 August 1996. the use of his name created any Bankers Trust Australia Limited distortion or wrong and improper Bankers Trust Australia Limited(BTAL) emphasis. A written apology was sent claimed that the 7.30 Report on 18 to Mr Casey. September 1995 conveyed a ‘fundamentally misleading impression of BTAL’s involvement in the University of Queensland’s cholesterol project’ and believed that the report was ‘unfair, unbalanced and involved a highly selective reporting of facts’. The ICRP upheld the complaint, finding that the use of the term ‘pulled the plug’ in the program implied that BTAL had summarily withdrawn support from a significant project of great benefit to medicine amounted to unfair

113 Tenterfield 88.9 Gympie 95.3 Bridgetown 1044 Appendix 14 Thredbo 88.9 Hughenden 1485 Broome 675 Tottenham 99.3 Injune 105.9 Busselton 684 Radio Tumbarumba 92.5* Julia Creek 567 Carnarvon 846 Transmitters Tumut 97.9 Karumba 106.1 Cue 106.1 Upper Hunter 105.7 Kowanyama 106.1* Dalwallinu 531 Wagga Wagga 102.7 Laura 106.1 Darlot 105.9* Metropolitan Walcha 88.5 Lockhart River 106.1* Derby 873 Walgett 105.9 Longreach 540 Esperance 837 Radio Wilcannia 1584 Mackay 101.1 Exmouth 1188 Adelaide- 5AN 891 Young 96.3 Middlemount 106.1 Fitzroy Crossing 106.1 Brisbane - 4QR 612 Victoria Miriam Vale 88.3 Geraldton 828 Canberra - 2CN 666 Albury-Wodon-ga 106.5 Mission Beach 89.3 Golden Grove Mine 106.3* Darwin - 8DDD 105.7 Alexandra 102.9 Mitchell 106.1 Goldsworthy 107.3* Hobart - 7ZR 936 Ballarat 107.9 Moranbah 104.9 Halls Creek 106.1 Melbourne - 3LO 774 Bendigo 91.1 Mossman 639 Jamieson 106.1* Newcastle - 2NC 1233 Bright 89.7 Mt Garnet 95.7 Kalbarri 106.1 Orford - 7ZR/T 90.5 Cann River 106.1 Mt Isa 106.5 Kalgoorlie-Boulder 648 Perth - 6WF 720 Corryong 99.7 Mt Molloy 95.7 Karratha 702 Sydney - 2BL 702 Goulburn Valley 97.7 Sunshine Coast 90.3 Koolan Is 106.1 Hamilton/Casterton 94.1 Normanton 105.7 Kununurra 819 Regional Radio Horsham 594 Pentland 106.1 Laverton 106.1 Gippsland 100.7 Pialba 855 Leinster 106.1* New South Wales Pormpuraaw 106.1* Leonora 105.7 Armidale 101.9 Mallacoota 104.9 Mansfield 103.7 Quilpie 106.1 Manjimup 738 Ashford 107.9 Red Dome Mine 105.7* Marble Bar 105.9 Batemans Bay 103.5 Mildura 104.3 Swan Hill 102.1 Rockhampton 837 Meekatharra 106.3 Bega 810 Roma 105.7 Menzies 106.1 Bombala 94.1 Myrtleford 91.7 Omeo 720 St George 711 Mt Magnet 105.7 Bonalbo 91.3 Tambo 105.9 Mt Whaleback 105.7* Bourke/Brewarrina 657 Orbost 97.1 Portland 96.9 Taroom 106.1 Nannup 98.1 Broken Hill 999 Thargomindah 106.1* Newman 567 Cobar 106.1 Sale 828 Warrnambool 1602 Theodore 105.9 Norseman 105.7 Coffs Harbour 92.3 Thursday Is 1062 Northam 1215 Cooma 1602 Queensland Toowoomba 747 Nullagine 106.3* Dubbo 107.1 Airlie Beach 89.9 Townsville 630 Palm Springs 106.9* Eden 106.3 Alpha 105.7 Tully 95.5 Pannawonica 567 Glen Innes 819 Atherton 720 Wandoan 98.1 Paraburdoo 567 Gloucester 100.9 Bedourie 106.1 Warwick/Stanthorpe 104.9 Port Hedland 603 Goodooga 99.3 Biloela Weipa 1044 Ravensthorpe 105.9 Goulburn 90.3 94.9 Wide Bay 100.1 Red Hill 96.3* Grafton 738 Birdsville 106.1 Shay Gap 107.9* Griffith/MIA 100.5 Boulia 106.1 South Australia Andamooka 105.9 Southern Cross 106.3 Hay 88.1 Burdekin Falls 107.5* Tjirrkarli 106.1* Illawarra 97.3 Cairns 106.7 Coober Pedy 106.1 Cook 107.7* Tom Price 99.3* Ivanhoe 106.1 Cairns 801 Tom Price 567 Jindabyne 95.5 Cairns North 95.5 Glendambo 106.1* Leigh Creek Coalfield 99.3* Wagin 558 Kempsey 684 Camooweal 106.1 Warakurna 101.9* Khancoban 89.7* Charleville 603 Leigh Creek Sth 1602 Lyndhurst 88.7* Warburton 106.1* Lightning Ridge 92.1 Chillagoe 106.1* Wiluna 106.1* Lismore 94.5 Coen 105.9 Marla 106.1* Marree 105.7 Wyndham 1017 Lithgow 1395 Collinsville 106.1 Yalgoo 106.1 Menindee 97.3 Cooktown 105.7 Mintabie 88.7* Moomba 106.1* Yandicoogina 106.1* Merriwa 101.9 Croydon 105.9 Yiyili 106.1* Mudgee 99.5 Cunnamulla 106.1 Mt Gambier 1584 Murrurundi 102.5 Dimbulah 91.7 Naracoorte 1161 Tasmania Murwillumbah 720 Doomadgee 97.5* Oodnadatta 95.3* Bicheno 89.7 Muswellbrook 1044 Dysart 91.7 Port Lincoln 1485 Burnie 102.5 Narrabri/Moree 99.1 Eidsvold 855 Port Pirie 639 East Devonport 100.5 Nyngan 95.1 Emerald 1548 Renmark/Loxton 1062 Fingal 1161 Orange 549 Georgetown 106.1 Roxby Downs 102.7 King Island 88.5 Portland 94.1 Gladstone 99.1 Streaky Bay 693 Launceston 711 Rylstone/Kandos 96.3 Gold Coast 91.7 Woomera 1584 Lileah 91.3 Southern NSW 675 Goondiwindi 92.7 Yalata 105.9* Queenstown 90.5 SW Slopes 89.9 Goonyella 89.7* Western Australia Rosebery 106.3 Talbingo 88.9* Greenvale 105.9 Albany 630 Savage River 104.1 Tamworth 648 Gunpowder 106.1* Argyle 105.9 St Helens 1584 Taree 756 Gununa 92.7* Augusta 98.3 St Marys 102.7 Taree/Port Macquarie95.5 Gympie 1566 Blackstone 106.1* Strahan 107.5

114 appendices 115 WirrullaWoomeraWudinnaWestern Australia Albany 107.3 Argyle 105.7 Augusta 107.7 107.7 Broome 107.7 Carnarvon Cue 96.9 Dalwallinu 107.5 99.1 DampierDenhamDerby 612 EneabbaEsperance 107.7 107.9 Exmouth 107.5 Fitzroy CrossingGeraldton 107.5 107.7 Goldsworthy 107.7 106.3 Halls Creek 107.7 Jurien BayKalbarri 99.7 105.7* Kalgoorlie-Boulder 107.7 Kambalda 97.1 107.9 KarrathaKoolan Is 107.7 KununurraLaverton 95.9 Leeman 100.9 Leinster 107.7 107.3 LeonoraMarble Bar 107.7 Meekatharra 107.3 Menzies 107.7* Merredin 107.3 107.5 Mt Magnet 107.9 Mt WhalebackMullewa 107.7 Nannup 107.3 104.1* 107.3 NarembeenNewmanNorseman 107.5 Onslow 107.7 98.9 PannawonicaParaburdoo 93.7 Perth 107.3 107.7 Pt Hedland Ravensthorpe 107.5 107.7 Roebourne 107.5 Salmon Gums 95.7 107.5 Shay Gap 810 Southern Cross 100.7 Tom PriceWagin 107.9 Wyndham 106.3* YalgooYandicoogina 107.3 Tasmania 107.7 Bicheno 1296 107.7* Hobart 107.7 LauncestonLileahOrford 91.3 Queenstown 94.1 Rosebery 585 St HelensSt Marys 630 89.7 88.9 107.9 96.1 101.1 GoondiwindiGreenvaleGunpowderGympie 94.3 HerbertonHughenden 101.9 107.7* InjuneIsisfordJericho 96.9 93.1 107.5 Julia CreekKarumbaLaura 107.5 107.7 Longreach 107.5 Mackay 107.7 Meandarra 107.7 Middlemount 99.1 Miles 107.7 Miriam Vale 104.3 107.7 Mission Beach 102.7 MitchellMonto 89.9 90.9 Moranbah 92.1 MorvenMossman 107.7 Mt GarnetMt Isa 106.5 101.9 Mt MolloyMuttaburra 107.5 90.1 Nonda 97.3 NormantonPentland 97.3 107.3 107.7 QuilpieRichmond 107.3 Rockhampton 100.9* Roma 107.7 Warwick/Stanth. 103.1 Springsure 107.7 107.7 106.5 St GeorgeSuratTambo 107.3 100.9 Taroom 107.7 Theodore 107.7 Thursday Is Townsville 107.5 Townsville North 107.5 Tully 107.7 107.5 96.7 Wandoan 104.7 WeipaWide BayWinton 107.9 South Australia 98.9 96.3 Adelaide 729 100.9 107.3 AndamookaCedunaCoober PedyHawker 107.5 KeithLeigh Creek Coalfield 100.9* 107.7 Leigh Creek Sth 107.7 MarreeQuorn 107.5 106.1 Renmark/Loxton 96.9 Roxby Downs 1305 Mt GambierSpencer Gulf Nth 107.3 101.9 Streaky Bay 107.9 106.7 Tumby Bay 103.3 100.9 101.9 Rylstone/KandosSW Slopes 100.3 SydneyTalbingoTamworthTaree/Port Macquarie97.1 89.1 TenterfieldThredbo 576 91.3* Tumut 93.9 Wagga Wagga 90.5 WalchaWalgett 104.3 90.5 Wilcannia 1485 Wollongong 99.5 Young 90.1 Victoria 107.5 Albury-Wodonga 1431 Alexandra 990 BairnsdaleBright 97.1 Cann RiverCorryong 104.5 106.3 MallacootaMansfield 107.7 Melbourne 88.9 Mildura 98.1 103.3 NhillOmeo 105.3 621 OrbostPortlandSwifts Creek 105.9 Wangaratta 95.7 Warrnambool 99.7 Queensland 103.5 98.7 98.5 Airlie Beach 756 101.7 AlphaAramac 107.9 Augathella 107.7 93.1 Barcaldine 107.3 BedourieBirdsville 107.3 Blackall 107.9 BlackwaterBoulia 107.7 107.7 Bowen 107.7 Brisbane 94.3 CairnsCairns NorthCamoowealCapella 107.3 92.7 792 Charleville 93.9 Charters Towers 105.1 107.7 Clermont 107.7 Cloncurry 97.5 107.3 CoenCollinsvilleCooktown 107.3 Corfield 107.3 107.7 Croydon 107.7 Cunnamulla 107.7 107.5 Darling DownsDimbulahDirranbandi 105.7 107.5 DysartEmeraldGeorgetown 93.3 107.3 GladstoneGold Coast 107.7 93.3 93.9 95.9 90.1 New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory ArmidaleBalranaldBatemans Bay/Moruya 105.1 Bathurst 720 Bega/Cooma 93.1 BonalboBourke/Brewarrina 101.1 Broken Hill 100.9 96.7 CanberraCoffs Harbour 92.1 Cooma 102.9 Deniliquin 99.5 Dubbo 846 EdenEmmaville 99.3 Glen Innes 95.3 GloucesterGoodooga 107.9 Goulburn 93.1 105.1 107.9 Griffith/MIA 102.5 HayIvanhoe 107.7 100.9 Jerilderie 98.9 1098 JindabyneKhancobanLightning RidgeLismore 94.1 88.9 93.7 97.1 Lithgow 91.3* MenindeeMerriwaMurrurundi 96.9 Narrabri/Moree 92.1 Newcastle 95.7 Nowra 100.7 104.1 103.5 OrangePortland 1512 603 104.3 92.5 Radio National SwanseaWaratahNorthern Territory Adelaide RiverAlice Springs 106.1 Bathurst Island 103.3 98.9 106.1 Borroloola Daly River 783 91.3 GaliwinkuGroote EylandtHaasts BluffJabiru 106.1 106.1 Jim Jim 105.9 Katherine 105.9* Kings CanyonMatarankaMereenie Gas & Oil 747 105.9* 89.1* 96.3* Nabarlek 106.1 Newcastle Waters 106.1 Ngukurr 106.1 NhulunbuyPine Creek 107.0* South AlligatorTennant Creek 990 104.5* Ti Tree 88.9* 106.1 Yulara 106.1 107.7* 99.7* Strahan 105.9 Darling Downs 107.3 Melbourne 107.5 Injinoo 107.1 Swansea 107.7 Gold Coast 88.5 Mildura 101.1 Kowanyama 107.7 Waratah 104.9 Gympie 93.7 Swan Hill 105.3 Kubin Island 105.9 Northern Territory Longreach 102.1* Warrnambool 89.7 Lockhart River 107.7 Adelaide River 100.5 Mackay 97.9 Queensland Mabuiag 106.3 Alice Springs 99.7 Mt Isa 101.7 Brisbane 107.7 Murray Island 106.1 Bathurst Island 92.9 Sunshine Coast 88.7 Cairns 107.5 New Mapoon 107.5 Borroloola 107.7 Rockhampton 106.3 Cairns North 97.1 Pormpuraaw 107.7 Daly River 107.7 Townsville 101.5 Darling Downs 104.1 Saibai Island 106.1 Darwin 657 Townsville North 95.9 Gold Coast 97.7 Seisia 106.3 Galiwinku 107.5 Warwick/Stanthorpe 101.7 Mackay 99.5 St Pauls Island 106.7 Groote Eylandt 107.7 Wide Bay 98.5 Mt Isa 104.1 Stephens Island 105.9 Jabiru 107.7 South Australia Sunshine Coast 89.5 Sue Island 105.9 Kalkaringi 107.7* Adelaide 103.9 Rockhampton 104.7 Umagico 105.9 Katherine 639 Adelaide Foothills 97.5 Townsville 105.5 Woorabinda Mataranka 107.7 Renmark 105.1 Townsville North 97.5 106.1 Newcastle Waters 107.7 Roxby Downs 103.5 Warwick/Stanthorpe 103.3 Wujal Wujal 107.7 Ngukurr 107.7* South–East SA 104.1 Wide Bay 99.3 Yam Island 106.1 Yorke Island 106.1 Nhulunbuy 107.7 Spencer Gulf Nth 104.3 South Australia Pine Creek 107.7 Woomera 103.3* Adelaide 105.5 South Australia South Alligator 88.1* Western Australia Adelaide Foothills 95.9 Amata 106.1 Tennant Creek 684 Albany 94.5 Mt Gambier 102.5 Ernabella 106.1 Urapunga 107.5* Bunbury 93.3 Renmark/Loxton 101.9 Fregon 106.1 Yulara 98.1 Esperance 104.7 Roxby Downs 101.1* Indulkana 106.1 Geraldton 94.9 Spencer Gulf North 103.5 Western Australia ABC Classic FM Kalgoorlie-Boulder 95.5 Woomera 104.1* Balgo 106.1 New South Wales & Koolan Is 104.5 Western Australia Beagle Bay 106.1 Australian Capital Territory Leinster 104.5* Albany 92.9 Djarindjin 106.1 Northam/York 98.9 Bunbury 94.1 Jigalong 106.1 Armidale 103.5 Perth 97.7 Geraldton 98.9 Kalumburu 106.1 Batemans B./Moruya 101.9 Kalgoorlie-Boulder 98.7 Kiwirrkurra 106.1 Bega 99.3 Tasmania Northam/York 98.1 Lagrange 106.1 Broken Hill 103.7 Hobart 93.9 Perth 99.3 Looma 106.1 Canberra 102.3 Launceston 93.3 Oombulgurri 106.1 Coffs Harbour 97.9 Northern Territory Tasmania Tjukurla 106.1 Dubbo 105.5 Alice Springs 97.9 Hobart 92.9 Warmun 106.1 Griffith/MIA 97.3 Darwin 107.3 Launceston 102.1 Wingellina 106.1 Illawarra 95.7 Yulara 99.7* Northern Territory Yandeyarra 106.1 Khancoban 88.1* Alice Springs 94.9 Yungngora 106.1 Lismore 95.3 Triple J Darwin 103.3 Narrabri/Moree 96.7 Yulara 95.7* Northern Territory Newcastle 106.1 New South Wales & Ali-Curung 106.1 Parliamentary and News Orange 102.7 Australian Capital Territory Barunga 106.1 Network SW Slopes 88.3 Armidale 101.1 Beswick 105.7 Adelaide 972 Sydney 92.9 Bega/Cooma 100.1 Bulman 106.1 Talbingo 88.1* Broken Hill 102.1 Brisbane 936 Daguragu 106.1 Canberra 1440 Tamworth 103.1 Canberra 101.5 Finke 106.1 Darwin 102.5 Taree/Port Macquarie98.7 Coffs Harbour 91.5 Galiwinku 106.7 Hobart 729 Wagga Wagga 105.9 Dubbo 102.3 Hermannsburg 106.1 Goulburn 88.7 Melbourne 1026 Victoria Imanpa 106.1 Griffith/MIA 96.5 Newcastle 1458 Kintore 106.1 Albury-Wodonga 104.1 Illawarra 98.9 Perth 585 Lajamanu 106.1 Ballarat Lismore 96.1 Sydney 630 Maningrida 106.1 105.5 Narrabri 99.9 Milikapiti 99.3 Bendigo 92.7 Newcastle 102.1 Milingimbi 106.1 Bright 88.1 Community Orange 101.9 Minjilang 106.1 Goulburn Valley 96.1 Facilities** SW Slopes 90.7 Nguiu 98.9 Hamilton/Casterton 93.3 Sydney 105.7 Queensland Ngukurr 106.1 Gippsland 101.5 Tamworth 94.7 Aurukun 107.7 Nturiya 105.9 Melbourne 105.9 Taree/Port Macquarie96.3 Badu Is 107.5 Numbulwar 106.1 Mildura 102.7 Wagga Wagga 101.1 Bamaga 106.7 Oenpelli 106.1 Swan Hill 103.7 Boigu Island 106.1 Palumpa 106.1 Warrnambool 92.1 Victoria Albury-Wodonga 103.3 Coconut Island 105.7 Papunya 106.1 Queensland Ballarat 107.1 Darnley Island 106.1 Peppimenarti 106.1 Airlie Beach 95.5 Bendigo 90.3 Dauan Island 105.7 Pmara Jutunta 106.1 Brisbane 106.1 Goulburn Valley 94.5 Doomadgee 107.7 Pularumpi 98.5 Cairns 105.9 Gippsland 96.7 Gununa 107.7 Ramingining 105.7 Cairns North 94.7 Hamilton/Casterton 94.9 Hope Vale 107.7 Santa Teresa 106.1 Clermont 104.5

116 appendices 117 Moonbi/ArmidaleMudgeeMungindi 60 Irrig’nMurrumbidgee Murrurundi 7 MurwillumbahNaroomaNewcastle/Hun.River 55 10 Newcastle/Hun.River 5A Nowra North 60 6 48 Nymagee*NynganOberon 0 Portland/Wallerawang 32 Quirindi 57 Richmond/Tweed 66 Stanwell ParkSW Slopes/E Riverina 3 Sydney 6 57 0 TamworthTamworth 5A 33 Tamworth/MoonbiTenterfieldThredbo 68 TottenhamTumbarumba* 2 2 55 Tumut*Tweed Heads 29 UlladullaUpper Hunter 66 34 10 Upper NamoiWagga Wagga 32 Walcha 57 Walgett 8 33 Weilmoringle* 7 White Cliffs* 56 WilcanniaWollongong 69 WyongYoung 6 69 69 Victoria Alexandra 35 8 AlexandraAlexandra EnvironsBairnsdale 42 Ballarat 44 11 Bendigo 5A Bonnie Doon 59 BoolarraBright 57 BruthenCann River 11 58 Casterton 1 ChurchillCobden 56 Colac 32 Coleraine 53 11 Corryong 55 Dartmouth* 55 Dinner Plain*Eildon 8 Eildon TownFerntree Gully 5A 2 57 Foster 64 9 Freeburgh/Smoko*Genoa 57 Gisborne* 56 56 33 Goulburn Valley 11 40 56 31 Appendix 16 Appendix Television Transmitters New South Wales Albury NorthAraluenArmidaleArmidaleAshford 56 BalranaldBatemans Bay/MoruyaBathurst 56 9 5A Bega/Cooma 33 BonalboBourke/Brewarrina 5A 39 Bowral/MittagongBraidwood 7 Broken Bay 8 6 33 Broken HillCaptains Flat* 55 CassilisCen/Western Slopes 57 Central Tablelands 67 Cobar 55 11 2 Coffs Harbour 1 CollarenebriCondobolin 42 CoolahCooma 60 Cooma 29 Crookwell 2 Deniliquin 65 DubboDungog 56 EdenEmmaville 0 45 56 Enngonia* 9 Glen InnesGlen Lyons/Menindee 57 Gloucester 60 68 Goodooga 55 Gosford 69 1 Goulburn 50 Grafton/KempseyHay 42 Illawarra 8Inverell 2 Ivanhoe 46 55 JerilderieJindabyneKandos 56 Khancoban 11 Kings Cross 2 Kotara 6 10 Kyogle 60 LaurietonLightning Ridge 60 60 Lithgow 46 Lithgow EastManly/Mosman 10 58 Manning River 44 57 Mannus*Menindee 55 42 Merewether 32 Merriwa 6 55 35 9 8 AM FM Total Notes — The Australian *SBRS Authority has Broadcasting to issued a licence the ABC service rebroadcast the Self- indicated under help Broadcasting Reception Scheme. facilities are Transmission provided by the licensee (not the National Transmission Agency). — **Community Facilities Formerly known as Broadcasting for Remote Aboriginal Communities Scheme (BRACS). Communities with such facilities have a transmitter which allows rebroadcasting of Regional Radio, Radio National, ABC Classic FM, local programming or programming from other sources. HACBSS The Homestead and Community Broadcasting Satellite Service allows Australians living outside transmitter range to receive signals from ABC Radio and Television, as well as a range of commercial and community broadcasting services. It is estimated that about 12 000 satellite dishes are in service for direct-to-home reception of HACBSS. 3230 4835 3370 5025 3315 4910 Total ABC 113 560 673 Radio NationalMetropolitan RadioRegional Radio ABC Classic FMTriple JParliamentary & News NetworkShortwave Radio 8 8 22 72 235 – 2 – 195 257 3 10 66 9 267 – – 68 48 3 59 ABC Radio — Network Analysis Network Transmitters UmbakumbaWadeyeWarruwiWillowra 106.3 YirrkalaYuelamu 106.1 Yuendumu 106.1 Domestic Shortwave 106.1 Alice Springs 105.3 VL8A 105.9 2310 106.1 Katherine VL8K 2485 Tennant Creek VL8T 2325 The frequencies on which shortwave stations transmit are varied as required to obtain optimum results. Hopetoun* 29 Capella 5A Moranbah Town 55 Andamooka 8 Horsham 45 Charleville 9 Morven 7 Angaston* 58 Howqua* 57 Charters Towers 44 Mossman 8 Arkaroola* 69 Jamieson* 58 Chillagoe* 69 Mount Surprise* 55 Barton* 69 Kiewa 57 Chinchilla* 56 Moura 54 Bordertown 2 Lakes Entrance 32 Clairview* 69 Mt Garnet 2 Burra 56 Latrobe Valley 40 Clermont 10 Mt Isa 6 Caralue Bluff 59 Mallacoota 57 Cloncurry 7 Mt Molloy 7 Carrickalinga* 55 Mansfield 50 Coen 8 Murgon 57 Ceduna/Smoky Bay 9 Marysville 46 Collinsville 55 Muttaburra 8 Chandler* 68 Melbourne 2 Cooktown 8 Nambour 58 Coffin Bay 45 Mildura 6 Corfield 10 Nebo 55 Coober Pedy 8 Mitta Vale* 56 Cracow* 68 Nonda* 69 Cook* 69 Murray Valley 2 Croydon 8 Noosa/Tewantin 32 Cowell 6 Myrtleford 2 Cunnamulla 10 Normanton 8 Elizabeth South 63 Nhill 9 Currumbin 33 Numinbah Prison* 56 Elliston* 69 Nowa Nowa 55 Dajarra* 69 Palen Creek Prison* 65 Glendambo* 69 Omeo 32 Darling Downs 32 Pentland 8 Golden Grove* 56 Orbost 2 Dimbulah 46 Pormpuraaw* 69 Hawker 48 Port Campbell* 54 Dirranbandi 7 Port Douglas 55 Indulkana* 69 Portland 60 Doomadgee* 69 Proserpine 56 Keith 42 Safety Beach 61 Dysart 2 Quilpie 8 Kenmore Park* 69 Selby 57 Eidsvold 57 Ravenshoe 8 Kingston SE/Robe 56 Seymour 55 Emerald 11 Richmond 6 Lameroo 57 South Yarra 61 Esk 55 Rockhampton 9 Leigh Creek South 9 Swifts Creek 59 Eulo* 69 Rockhampton East 55 Lyndhurst* 60 Tawonga South* 32 Forsayth* 56 Roma 7 Manguri* 69 Trawool* 31 Georgetown 7 Scherger* 50 Marla* 69 Upper Murray 1 Gladstone East 32 Shute Harbour 2 Marree 8 Upwey 39 Gladstone West 55 Smithfield Heights 56 Mintabie* 64 Walwa/Jingellic* 56 Glenden* 29 Southern Downs 1 Moomba* 69 Warburton 61 Gold Coast 49 Springsure 8 Naracoorte 57 Warrnambool 2 Goondiwindi 6 St George 8 Nepabunna* 69 Western Victoria 5A Gordonvale 55 Stuart 59 Normanville* 57 Yea 33 Greenvale 8 Sunshine Coast 40 Oodnadatta* 60 Queensland Gunpowder* 69 Surat 11 Parachilna* 69 Airlie Beach 49 Gununa* 69 Tambo 6 Penong* 69 Alpha 8 Gympie 45 Tara 57 Peterhead* 56 Aramac 11 Gympie Town 57 Taroom 11 Pinnaroo 56 Atherton/Mareeba 68 Herberton 60 Texas 11 Pipalyatjara* 69 Augathella 11 Hervey Bay 55 Thallon* 69 Port Lincoln 60 Aurukun* 69 Hope Vale* 69 Thargomindah* 69 Quorn 47 Ayr 63 Hughenden 9 The Monument* 69 Renmark/Loxton 3 Ayton* 69 Injune 8 Theodore 58 Roxby Downs 56 Babinda 54 Isisford 7 Thursday Island 8 South East 1 Ballard 33 Jackson Oil Field* 69 Tieri* 69 Spencer Gulf North 1 Bamaga* 69 Jericho 7 Toowoomba 56 Streaky Bay 10 Barcaldine 10 Julia Creek 10 Townsville 3 Swan Reach* 51 Bedourie 7 Jundah* 69 Townsville North 55 Tarcoola* 69 Bell 56 Karumba 6 Trinity Beach 45 Tumby Bay 32 Birdsville 8 Kowanyama* 69 Tully 8 Umuwa* 69 Blackall 9 Laura 8 Tully Falls 46 Victor Harbor 55 Blackwater 8 Linville* 63 Wandoan 5A Waikerie 56 Bogantungan* 69 Lockhart River* 69 Wangetti 51 Watson* 68 Bollon* 69 Longreach 6 Warwick 55 Wirrulla 8 Boonah 57 Mackay 8 Weipa 7 Woomera 7 Boulia 8 Mareeba 54 Wide Bay 6 Wudinna 30 Bowen 5A Marpuna* 69 Windorah* 69 Yankalilla* 56 Boyne Island 57 Meandarra 59 Winton 8 Yunta* 69 Brisbane 2 Middlemount 8 Wirralie* 69 Western Australia Burdekin Falls* 69 Miles 9 Wujal Wujal* 69 Albany 7 Burketown* 69 Millmerran* 55 Wyandra* 69 Argyle* 69 Cairns 9 Miriam Vale 11 Yarrabah* 69 Augusta 56 Cairns East 41 Mission Beach 2 Yeppoon 56 Badgingarra* 68 Cairns North 4 Mitchell 6 Yuleba* 68 Bamboo Creek* 64 Cairns North 56 Monto 56 South Australia Bayulu 45 Camooweal 8 Moore 33 Adelaide 2 Beacon* 69 Cape Flattery Mine* 69 Moranbah 5A Adelaide Foothills 46 Beenup Camp* 64

118 appendices 119 Unless otherwise : Appendix 15 Radio Australia Transmitters DarwinSheppartonBrandonTotalNote 6 5 2 13 Hermannsburg*JabiruJim Jim*Kalkaringi* 66 Katherine Resort*Kings Canyon Kulgera* 69 Mataranka 69 Mine*McArthur River 57 8 McArthur River* 69 Newcastle Waters 7 Nhulunbuy 69 Numbulwar* 59 8 Peppimenarti* 8 Pine CreekPularumpi*Robinson River* 11 69 69 Santa Teresa*South Alligator*Tennant Creek 59 10 Ti Tree* 69 Urapunga* 68 65 Wadeye*Warrego 9 Warruwi*Wave Hill*Werenbun* 68 67 Yirrkala* 69 Yulara*Total TV Transmitters 627 10 69 68 65 *SBRS — The Australian Broadcasting Authority has issued a licence to 9 rebroadcast the ABC service 67 indicated under the Self- help Broadcasting Reception Scheme. Transmission facilities are provided by the licensee. stated transmitters for Television, Radio and Radio Australia are managed on behalf of the Commonwealth by the National Transmission Agency. The value of these services is shown in the Financial Statements. AvocaBichenoBinalong BayBurnieCygnetDerbyDevonport/Ulverstone 33 45 Dover 48 10 Dover SouthEast Devonport 58 Forth* 45 GeevestonGladstone 57 57 44 Goulds Country/Goshen 57 Hillwood 56 HobartHobart, N/E Suburbs 57 45 King Island 40 57 LauncestonLileah 46 Maydena*Mole Creek*Montumana 11 2 New Norfolk 56 Nth/East TasmaniaNth/East Tasmania 58 57 Orford 8 3 59 Penguin 32 56 Pyengana ValleyQueenstown/ZeehanRingarooma Valley 56 Rosebery 33 Savage River 55 55 Smithton 31 St HelensSt MarysStrahan 33 Strathgordon 4 Swansea 32 Taroona 31 Tullah*Ulverstone 56 43 Waratah 57 WeldboroughWynyard 57 46 ACT 59 Canberra 55 Fraser 56 57 TuggeranongWeston Creek/Woden 33 Northern Territory 55 Adelaide RiverAlice Springs 9 60 Batchelor* 56 Bathurst Island 11 Beswick*Borroloola 7 Bulman* 11 Cattle Creek* 69 Daguragu*Daly River 60 Darwin 6 Darwin North 68 68 Docker River*Galiwinku 66 Groote Eylandt 10 Haasts Bluff* 55 Helen Springs* 69 6 7 8 69 68 MeekatharraMenziesMerredinMooraMorawaMt Magnet 8 Mukinbudin*Mullewa 10 Munglinup* 8 Nanga Bay* 60 Nannup 31 8 8 NarembeenNarrogin 69 Newman 9 69 NorsemanNorth Rankin*North Rankin* 64 32 NorthamptonNullagine* 57 61 Nungarin* 7 67 One Arm Point* 7 Ongerup* 8 OnslowOriental Well* 50 69 Overlander* 66 Pallottine Mission*Palm Springs Mine* 67 Pannawonica 67 69 Paraburdoo 60 69 Pemberton 8 PerthPhillip Point* 11 Pingrup*Pink Hills* 6 Port Hedland 33 Ravensthorpe 68 Rawlinna*Roebourne 2 67 Roleystone 69 7 Salmon Gums 11 Shay Gap*South’n Agricultural 69 Southern Cross 9 Tjirrkarli* 57 2 8 Tom PriceToodyay 2 Trayning* 9 Useless Loop Town*Vlaming Head* 69 68 Wagin 10 Wangkatjungka*Warakurna* 40 69 69 Warburton*Wave Rock* 69 Weeli Wolli Creek*Westonia* 69 Wiluna* 8 69 69 Winning* 69 Wittenoom*Wongan HillsWyndham 10 65 Yagga Yagga*Yalgoo 69 69 66 Yandicoogina* 6 Yiyili*Zanthus* 66 Tasmania 68 Acton Road* 10 69 69 55 Bellevue Mine*Bellevue Bencubbin*Blackstone*Boddington* 69 Bremer Bay*Bridgetown 68 Broads Dams* 69 Broome 68 Bunbury 69 Burracoppin*Callion* 56 69 CarnarvonCentral AgriculturalCervantes 66 8 Cockatoo Island* 5A 5 Condingup/HowickCoorow* 69 58 7Cue 6 Curtin* 46 DalwallinuDampierDenhamDerby 67 Dolphin Island*Eneabba 46 69 10 EsperanceEucla* 29 65 Exmouth 8 Fitzroy CrossingForrest* 8 Gairdner* 46 10 Geraldton 58 Gnowangerup* 69 Golden Grove Mine* 8 Goodwyn* 68 Green Head* 69 68 69 Halls CreekHopetoun* 6 Hyden*Jameison* 68 51 Jerramungup*Jurien 8 Kalbarri 65 KalgoorlieKambalda 69 69 29 KambaldaKaralundi*Karratha 55 Katanning 9 6 KojonupKondinin* 5 55 Koolyanobbing 68 Koorda*Kulin* 54 7 Kununurra 11 Kununurra East 69 69 Lagrange*Lake GraceLake King* 52 68 Lancelin* 31 9 LavertonLearmonth* 67 Leeman 33 Leinster 69 Leonora 53 Looma 66 Marandoo* 10 Marble Bar 5A 10 8 43 68 8 Appendix 16 Appendix 18 Appendix 21 Consultants Reports on Audit Subcommittee Expenditure on Consultants in 1996-97 Particular Matters The following is a summary of the was $2 966 659, an increase of activities of the Audit Subcommittee $802 619 on the previous year. Under section 80 of the ABC Act, the during 1996–97. The increase was due to a major Corporation is required to report upon a number of particular matters. 1996–97 Meetings reshaping to the One ABC structure. The Subcommittee met five times in •Concerts 50 286 • Directions from the Minister relating to broadcasts pursuant to 1996–97: •Tech Strategy & Development 80 494 Meeting No. 3 26 Aug 1996 •Enterprises 29 301 section 78 or other than under the Act. — There were no directions Meeting No. 4 24 Sept 1996 •Human Resources 325 013 Meeting No. 5 9 Dec 1996 •News & Current Affairs 9 691 from the Minister. • Gifts or Donations within the Meeting No. I 5 Feb 1997 •Regional Services 2 485 Meeting No. 2 28 May 1997 •Program Creation 34 705 meaning of section 80(f) of the Act •National Networks 16 770 — The Corporation received no gifts Members of the Subcommittee are: •Corporate Management 19 314 or donations. • Janine Walker, Audit Subcommittee • Finance & Business Services 1 741 430 • Advice received by the ABC Board Chair •Australia Television 657 170 from the NAC is detailed in • Donald McDonald, ABC Chair Appendix 11. • Brian Johns, Managing Director • Wendy Silver, Director Also in attendance are: • Mgr, Group Audit Appendix 19 • Head of Finance and Business Appendix 17 Services Discretionary Grants • Australian National Audit Office Ministerial Powers representative Under section 78 of the ABC Act the For 1996–97 the ABC’s expenditure on Ms. Walker’s term as Chair of the Minister responsible for the ABC has discretionary grants consisted of two Subcommittee finished on 30 June the power to require the ABC to programs: 1997. • $10 000 for young Women in broadcast any particular matter if the Overall Performance Minister believes it to be in the Physics Residential School Program, Macquarie University, to assist with At its May 1996 meeting, the Audit national interest. Such direction must Subcommittee endorsed a strategy to be in writing, must be tabled in both the costs of delivering the program; and further strengthen the Corporation’s Houses of Parliament within seven internal audit function. As a result, sitting days, and must be included in • $6000 for five scholarships ($1200 each) to women who are studying the Subcommittee achieved the the ABC’s Annual Report. No such following enhancements to the directions were received during the in the final year of electrical engineering. internal Audit function during the year. 1996–97 year: Section 78(6) states ‘Except as • the development of a three year risk provided by this section, or as based Strategic Audit Plan expressly provided by a provision of • the addition of information another Act, the Corporation is not Appendix 20 technology audits into the Plan subject to direction by or on behalf of • the strengthening of operational the Government of the Advertising and reviews Commonwealth’. Market Research • an increased emphasis on assisting management Expenditure on market research and • a full revision and re-launch the advertising for the 1996–97 Year was fraud prevention and investigation $4 803 580 (1996 $5 944 257) functions Corporation utilises advertising • development of Group Audit and agencies and market research Audit Subcommittee Charters organisations predominately to • a substantial increase in Group promote Symphony Orchestra Concerts Audit productivity whilst enhancing & Television programming. the quality of work completed • Advertising $2 740 891 • a full revision of audit practices and • Market Research $1 848 763 procedures in line with best • Direct Mail $213 926 practice • the development of a brochure titled ‘The Better Practice Guide to the Management of Risk’ to raise management’s awareness of key issues concerning systems of internal control and accountability. Group Audit completed the 1996–97 Strategic Audit Plan as scheduled.

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Projects completed are listed below. Compliance audits completed during During the year, the Audit the year confirmed the adequacy of Appendix 22 Subcommittee was favourably control environments for the areas benchmarked against the ‘Better under review. Audit recommendations ABC Offices Practice’ attributes of Audit were implemented by Management Committees compiled by the Australian during the year. ABC Head Office National Audit Office confirming that Operational Reviews the Committee continues to operate in Australian Broadcasting Corporation accordance with best practice. Final Reports Date Published ABC Ultimo Centre, 1. Queensland Branch & 700 Harris Street, Ultimo 2007; Staffing Regional Office Review March GPO Box 9994, Sydney NSW 2001; Mr David Pendleton was appointed as 2. Victoria Branch and Phone: (02) 9333 1500; Mgr, Group Audit on l July 1996. Regional Office Review March Fax: (02) 9333 5305; Group Audit used a combination of 3. Review of MIDAS Managing Director: Brian Johns in-house, outsourced and contract Delegation System March Australia Television: 221 Pacific staff. The appointment of two Adelaide 4. Sound Library April Highway, based Analysts in February 1997 5. Tasmania Branch Gore Hill 2065; brought Group Audit to full strength. and Regional Office Review May GPO Box 9994, Sydney NSW 2001; Information Technology Audits 6. Tasmania Symphony Phone (02) 9950 3090; Coopers and Lybrand were appointed Orchestra May Fax (02) 9950 3064; as the IT auditors on a three year 7. Radio National August Email: [email protected] contract following a tender process Reports Under Discussion Chief Executive: Michael Mann involving the Big 6 and a specialist IT 1. International Comparisons Enterprises: John Mellion Building, service provider. The Coopers and 2. Technology Project Management 10a Campbell Street, Artarmon NSW Lybrand submission represented the and Licensing 2065; best value for money. There were 3. Warehousing Operations GPO Box 9994, Sydney NSW 2001; seven reviews completed during the 4. Fixed Assets Phone (02) 9950 3999; year: 5. Domestic Property Management Fax (02) 9950 3867; Final Reports Date Published 6. Interest Income and Borrowings General Manager: Terry Moloney Finance and Business Services: ABC 1. IT System Architecture May Sydney Symphony Orchestra Holdings Ultimo Centre 2. Desktop Equipment June Group Audit provided audit services to 700 Harris Street, Ultimo 2007; 3. System Maintenance June Sydney Symphony Orchestra Holdings GPO Box 9994, Sydney NSW 2001; 4. News/CAff System July Pty Ltd following its corporatisation Phone (02) 9333 5151 5. Disaster Recovery on I July 1996. In addition to the Fax (02) 9333 5172 Planning August development of three year risk based Head Finance and Business Services: 6. Computer Hardware August Strategic Audit Plan, Group Audit also Russell Balding 7. Operating System completed the following two reviews: Human Resources: ABC Ultimo (DECVAX) August 1. Controls Assurance Centre, 2. Corporate Governance Group Audit concluded that controls in 700 Harris Street, Ultimo 2007; place were satisfactory and suggested Fraud Control GPO Box 9994, Sydney NSW 2001; enhancements to the Corporation’s Significant progress was made during Phone (02) 9333 5120; disaster recovery plan and for the 1996–97 by the completion of the Fax (02) 9333 5108; development of a business case for a review and update of the Corporation’s Head Human Resources: Jacquie centralised desktop management fraud control strategy. Hutchinson system. Contemporaneous fraud control National Networks: ABC Ultimo Financial Compliance Audits activities included the completion of a Centre, Fraud Investigation Manual and the 700 Harris Street, Ultimo, 2007; Final Reports Date Published development of a fraud awareness GPO Box 9994, Sydney NSW 2001; 1. Accounts Payable April campaign including promotional Phone (02) 9333 2602; 2. Security Contracts April materials and fraud awareness training Fax (02) 9333 2603; 3. Technology Sales April modules to be delivered during the Head National Networks: Andy Lloyd 4. Enterprises perfor- beginning of 1997–98. James mance Indicators April Network Television: 221 Pacific 5. Retail Outlets May Australian National Audit Office Highway, 6. Tendering Process May Closer working relations continue to Gore Hill 2065; GPO Box 9994, Sydney 7. Roadshow June develop between the Corporation’s NSW 2001; 8. TV Marketing Sales external auditor, the ANAO and Group General ABC Switch Phone (02)9333 and Debtors July Audit. This has resulted in the ANAO 1500; 9. Co-Productions August placing further reliance on the work of Network Television (02) 9950 3050; 10. Superannuation Group Audit in the 1996–97 Client Network Television Fax (02) 9950 3055; Management August Service Document. TTY 1800627854 (Toll Free) 11. Redundancy General Manager, Network Television: Payments August Penny Chapman Acting Manager TV NSW: Gints Vietienks News & Current Affairs: 221 Pacific Highway, Gore Hill 2065; 700 Harris Street, Ultimo NSW 2007;

121 GPO Box 9994, Sydney NSW 2001; Sydney Symphony Orchestra Phone (067) 66 5611 Phone, Gore Hill: (02) 9950 3097; 5/52 William St, East Sydney ...; Fax (067) 66 6131 Fax, Gore Hill: (02) 9950 3055; GPO Box 4977, Sydney NSW 2000 Wagga Wagga: 100 Fitzmaurice Street; Phone, Ultimo: (02) 9333 5546; Phone (02) 9333 4644 PO Box 1019, Wagga Wagga NSW Fax, Ultimo: (02) 9333 2505; Fax (02) 9334 4646 2650; Head, News & Current Affairs: Paul General Manager: Mary Vallentine Phone (069) 21 3734 Williams Albury-Wodonga: (administered by Fax (069) 21 1716 Program Production: 221 Pacific Victorian branch) Wollongong: Unit 6-7/74 Kembla Highway, see Wodonga, Victoria Street; Gore Hill 2065; Bega: Auckland Chambers, PO Box 973, Wollongong East NSW GPO Box 9994, Sydney NSW 2001; Auckland Street; 2520 Phone (02) 9950 3400; PO Box 336, Bega NSW 2550 Phone (042) 28 0033 Fax (02) 9950 3418; Phone (064) 92 1900 Fax (042) 29 2952 Head of Program Production: Don Fax (064) 92 3163 Reynolds Broken Hill: (administered by SA Northern Territory Regional Services: ABC Southbank branch) see South Australia Darwin: 1 Cavenagh Street; Centre Coffs Harbour: (administered by GPO Box 9994, Darwin, NT 0801; Cnr Southbank Blvd and Sturt St, Kempsey office) Phone (08) 8943 3222; Southbank 3006; Cnr Gordon & High Street, Coffs Fax (08) 8943 3125 GPO Box 9994, Melbourne VIC 3001; Harbour NSW 2450 State Manager: Tony Bowden Phone (03) 9626 1949; Phone (066) 513 986 Alice Springs: Cnr Gap Road & Speed Fax (03) 9626 1633; Fax (066) 514 035 Street; Head Regional Services: Sue Howard Dubbo: (administered by Orange PO Box 1144, Alice Springs, NT 0871; Symphony Australia Holdings Pty office) Phone (08) 8952 3433, 8952 6639; Ltd: (Formerly ABC Concerts, this is a 45 Wingewarra Street; Fax (08) 8952 2093 wholly owned ABC subsidiary) PO Box 985, Dubbo NSW 2830; ABC Ultimo Centre, 700 Harris Street, Phone (068) 84 1518 Ultimo 2007; Fax (068) 84 1051 Queensland GPO Box 9994, Sydney NSW 2001; Grafton: (administered by Lismore Brisbane: Middenbury,Cnr Coronation Phone (02) 9333 1500; office) Drive & Archer Street, Fax (02) 9333 1678; 50 Victoria Street; Toowong; GPO Box 9994, Brisbane, Qld Managing Director: Nathan Waks PO Box 435, Grafton NSW 2460 4001; Technology Strategy & Development: Phone (066) 42 2977 Phone (07) 3377 5222; ABC Ultimo Centre, 700 Harris Street, Fax (066) 42 7701 Fax (07) 3377 5633; Ultimo 2007; Lismore: 61 High Street, Queensland Manager: Robert Wurth GPO Box 9994, Sydney NSW 2001; Lismore Heights; Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Phone: (02) 9333 2605 PO Box 908, Lismore NSW 2480; 51 Ferry Road, West End, Brisbane, Qld Fax: (02) 9333 2603 Phone (066) 25 1188 4101; Head Technology Strategy & Fax (066) 25 1073 Phone (07) 3377 5000; Development: Colin Knowles Mid North Coast: 18 Kemp Street, Fax (07) 3377 5001 West Kempsey; Acting General Manager: Libby Anstis Australian Capital PO Box 76, West Kempsey NSW 2440 Bundaberg: 58 Woongarra Street; Phone (065) 62 6388 P.O. Box 1152, Bundaberg, Qld 4670; Territory Fax (065) 62 8413 Phone (071) 53 2855; Canberra: Cnr Northbourne and Muswellbrook (administered by Fax (071) 51 6805; Wakefield Avenues, Dickson; Newcastle office) Cairns: Cnr Sheridan and Upward GPO Box 9994, Canberra ACT 2601; Market Street, Muswellbrook NSW Street; Phone (06) 275 4555; 2333; P.O Box 932, Cairns, Qld 4870; Fax (06) 275 4601 Phone (065) 411 044 Phone (070) 31 3677; Manager ABC Resources and Services: Fax (065) 43 4651 Fax (070) 51 8368; Nick Hildyard, Newcastle: Cnr Wood and Parry Gladstone: Dahl’s Building, 43 Tank Email: [email protected] Streets, Street, Gladstone, Qld 4680; Acting Manager 2CN Radio: Gail Bartel Newcastle West NSW 2302; Phone (079) 72 3812; Email: [email protected] Phone (049) 22 1200 Fax (079) 72 2650 Parliament House Bureau: Fax (049) 22 1222 Gold Coast: Cnr Gold Coast Highway Phone (06) 275 4640; Nowra (administered by Wollongong and Francis Street; Fax (06) 275 4641 office) PO Box 217, Mermaid Beach, Qld 4218; 59A Kinghorn Street; Phone (07) 5572 9917; New South Wales PO Box 1071 Nowra 2541; Fax (07) 5572 6477 NSW Radio Management Phone (044) 22 1200 Longreach: Duck Street; ABC Ultimo Centre, 700 Harris Street, Fax (044 23 2527 PO Box 318, Longreach, Qld 4730; Ultimo, 2007 Orange: 46 Bathurst Road; Phone (076) 58 3601; GPO Box 9994, Sydney NSW 2001 PO Box 863, Orange NSW 2800; Fax (076) 58 3605 Phone (02) 9333 2400 Phone (063) 91 2550 Mackay: 25 River Street; Fax (02) 9333 2404 Fax (063) 91 2555 Mackay 4740 Manager Radio NSW: Kate Miller Tamworth: Parry Shire Building, 470 PO Box 127, Mackay, Qld 4740; Email: [email protected] Peel Street; Phone (079) 51 1560; PO Box 558, Tamworth NSW 2340 Fax (079) 51 1663

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Maroochydore: Shop 3A, Dolphin Tasmania Sale: 336-342 York Street; Centre, 159 Aerodrome Rd, Hobart: Broadcasting Centre, Liverpool PO Box 330, Sale, Vic. 3850 Maroochydore, Qld 4558; Street; Phone (03) 5144 3980 Phone (07) 5443 7878; GPO Box 9994, Hobart Tas 7001; Fax (03) 5144 3920 Fax (07) 5443 6524; Phone (03) 6235 3333; Shepparton: 265a Maude Street; Maryborough: 146 Bazaar Street; Fax (03) 6235 3407 P.O. Box 1922, Shepparton, Vic 3630 P.O. Box 276, Email: [email protected] Phone (03) 5831 2144 Maryborough, Qld 4650; State Manager: Robert J. Batten Fax (03) 5831 2140 Phone (071) 21 3952; Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra: ABC Traralgon: 4/11-13 Kay Street, Fax: (071) 22 3750 Odeon Theatre, Traralgon; Mount Isa: 114 Camooweal Street, 167 Liverpool Street, Hobart Tas 7000; PO Box 681, Traralgon 3488 Mt. Isa, Qld 4825; Phone (03) 6235 3646; Phone (03) 5174 0433 Phone (077) 43 9000; Fax (03) 6235 3651 Fax: (03) 5174 0109 Fax(077) 43 5619 General Manager: Julie Warn Warrnambool: 166B Koroit Street, Rockhampton: 238 Quay Street; Burnie: 81 Mount Street; Warrnambool, Vic 3280; PO Box 911, Rockhampton, Qld 4700; PO Box 533, Burnie Tas 7320; Phone (03) 5561 2965 News (03) Phone (079) 27 3666; Phone (03) 6431 5466 5561 1141 Fax (079) 27 4137 Fax (03) 6431 8069 Fax (03) 5562 5249 Toowoomba: ABC Radio Centre, Launceston: 45 Ann Street; Wodonga: 1 High Street Wodonga 297 Margaret Street; PO Box 201, Launceston Tas 7250; 3960 PO Box 358, Toowoomba, Qld 4350; Phone (03) 6332 4222; PO Box 1063 Phone (076) 39 2878; Fax (03) 6332 4255 Wodonga 3690 Fax (076) 32 1904 Phone (02) 6024 2000 Townsville: 8-10 Wickham Street; Victoria Fax (02) 6024 2404 PO Box 694 Townsville, Qld 4810; Radio: ABC Southbank Centre, Phone (077) 71 5052; Southbank Boulevard, Southbank 3006; Western Australia Fax (077) 72 5322 GPO Box 9994, Melbourne 3001; Perth: 191 Adelaide Terrace; Phone (03) 9626 1600 PO Box 9994, Perth WA 6848 South Australia Fax (03) 9626 1601 Phone (08) 9220 2700 Adelaide: 85 North East Road, Manager & State Representative: Fax (08) 220 2899 Collinswood; Murray Green. State Manager: Geoff Duncan GPO Box 9994, Adelaide SA 5001; Email: [email protected] West Australian Symphony Orchestra Phone (08) 8343 4000; Television: 8 Gordon Street, [Symphony Australia]: Fax (08) 8343 4800 Elsternwick Vic 3185; 191 Adelaide Terrace; State Manager: Michael Mason GPO Box 9994, Melbourne 3001; PO Box 9994, Perth WA 6848; Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Pty Phone (03) 9528 4444 Phone (08) 9220 2604 Ltd, Fax (03) 9524 2504 Fax (08) 9220 2551 85 North East Road, Collinswood; Manager: David Barker General Manager: Rod Lillis GPO Box 2121, Adelaide SA 5001; Radio Australia: ABC Southbank Albany: 2 St Emilie Way; Phone (08) 8343 4820; Centre, Southbank Boulevard, PO Box 489, Albany WA 6330; Fax (08) 8343 4808; Southbank 3006; Phone (08) 9842 5000 Managing Director: Robert Clarke GPO Box 9994, Melbourne Vic 3001; Fax (08) 9842 5557 Broken Hill: (administered by the SA Phone (03) 9626 1800 Broome: 1/14 Napier Terrace; Branch) Fax (03) 9626 1899 PO Box 217, Broome WA 6725 454 Argent Street; Network Manager: Jean-Gabriel Phone (08) 9193 5597 PO Box 315, Broken Hill NSW 2880; Manguy Fax (08) 9193 5609 Phone (080) 88 3999; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Bunbury: 72 Wittenoom Street; Fax (080) 88 5136 ABC Southbank Centre, Southbank PO Box 242, Bunbury WA 6231 Mount Gambier: Penola Road; Boulevard, Southbank 3006; Phone (08) 9721 4622 PO Box 1448, Mt Gambier SA 5290; GPO Box 9994, Melbourne Vic 3001; Fax (08) 9721 4851 Phone (087) 8425 1101; Phone (03) 9626 1100 Geraldton: 245 Marine Terrace; Fax (087) 8425 6227 Fax (03) 9626 1101 PO Box 211, Geraldton WA 6530; Port Augusta: Church Street; General Manager: Steven Porter Phone (08) 9921 1477 PO Box 2149, Port Augusta SA 5700; Bendigo: 278 Napier Street; Fax (08) 9921 2183 Phone (086) 8442 2848; PO Box 637, Bendigo 3550 Kalgoorlie: Commonwealth Offices Fax (086) 8442 2838 Phone: (03) 5441 8233 Cnr Porter & Brookman Streets; Port Lincoln: 2/8 Eyre Street; Fax: (03 5441 8573 PO Box 125, Kalgoorlie WA 6430; P.O. Box 679, Port Lincoln SA 5606 Horsham: Shop 3, 148 Baillie Street. Phone (08) 9021 2433 Phone (086) 8482 6511; PO Box 506, Horsham, Vic 3400 Fax (08) 9021 6592 Fax (086) 8482 6538 Phone (03) 5382 0152 Karratha: Degrey Place; Port Pirie: 85 Grey Terrace; Fax (03) 5382 0913 PO Box 994, Karratha WA 6714; PO Box 289, Port Pirie SA 5540; Mildura: 73A Pine Ave; Phone (08) 9144 1856 Phone (086) 8433 0500; PO Box 2237, Mildura, Vic 3502 Fax (08) 9144 1856 Fax (086) 8432 2301 Phone (03) 5021 1620 Kununurra: Lot 1899, Sandalwood Renmark: Ral Ral Avenue; Fax (03) 5021 1664 Drive; PO Box 20, Renmark SA 5341; PO Box 984, Kununurra WA 6743; Phone (085) 8486 6500; Phone (08) 9168 2773 Fax (085) 8486 5890 Fax (08) 9169 1102

123 Overseas Offices Washington: Suite 510, National Press Queensland Amman: PO Box 830256 Building Broadbeach Shop 354, Level 1, Amman, Jordan; 529 14th Street NW, Washington DC The Arcade, Pacific Fair Shopping Centre Phone (962-6) 61 6130; 20045, USA; Phone (07) 575 4231 Fax (962-6) 61 6131 Phone: (1-202) 466 8575; Fax (07) 5720 084 Bangkok: 518/5 Maneeya Centra, Fax: (1-202) 626 5188 Brisbane Shop 240, Level 2 Penthouse (17th), Ploenchlt Road, The Myer Centre Bangkok 10330 Thailand; Phone (07) 3377 5455 Phone (66-2) 254 8328; Fax (07) 3221 1516 Fax (66-2) 254 8336 Appendix 23 Carindale Shop 163, Level 2 Beijing: 8/121 Qi Jia Yuan, Carindale Shopping Centre Beijing 100600 China; ABC Shops Phone (07) 3398 1606 Phone (861-0) 6532 6819, 6532 6820; Fax (07) 3843 1534 Fax (861-0) 6532 2514 Australian Capital Indooroopilly Shop 3017 Brussels: International Press Centre, Westfield Shoppingtown Post Box 1, 1 Boulevard Charlemagne, Territory Phone (07) 3878 9923 1041 Brussels Belgium; Canberra Shop CF 12, Canberra Centre Fax (07) 3878 9931 Phone (32-2) 282 0520, 282 0522 or Phone (06) 247 2941 Robina Shop 30 Robina Town Square 282 0525; Fax (06) 275 4567 Phone: (07) 5575 9859 Fax (32-2) 282 0529 Fax: (07) 5575 9941 Hanoi: 6th floor, VNA Building New South Wales 8 Tran Hung Dao Brookvale Shop 110, Level 1 South Australia Hanoi Vietnam Warringah Mall Shopping Centre Adelaide Shop 310 Level 3, The Myer Phone (84-4) 825 0700 or 825 0701; Phone (02) 9905 3758 Centre Fax (84-4) 826 6330 Fax (02) 9905 7198 Phone (08) 8410 0567 Jakarta: Jalan Indramayu 18 Campbelltown Shop U32, Macquarie Sq Fax (08) 8410 0585 Jakarta Pusat 10310, Indonesia; Campbelltown NSW 2560 Modbury Shop 113, Westfield Phone (62-21) 390 8123; Phone: (046) 268 624 Shoppingtown Fax (62-21) 390 8124 Fax: (046) 264 027 Tea Tree Plaza Jerusalem: 5th Floor, JCS Building Chatswood Shop 350, Level 3 Phone (08) 8396 0000 206 Jaffa Road, Jerusalem 91131 Westfield Shopping Town Fax (08) 8396 0930 Israel; Phone (02) 9950 3148 Phone: (97-22) 537 2908, 537 3557, Fax (02) 9950 3149 Tasmania 538 9060 Erina Shop T46, The Boardwalk Hobart Shop 206 Centrepoint or 670 1795; Erina Fair Phone (002) 6353 648 Fax: (97-22) 537 3306 Phone (043) 676 892 Fax (002) 6353 649 Johannesburg: 3rd Floor, 1 Park Road, Fax (043) 654 986 Richmond, Miranda Shop 1087-88 Victoria Johannesburg 2092 South Africa; Westfield Shopping Town Chadstone Shop B53, Lower Mall, Phone: (27-11) 726 8636 or 726 8676; Phone (02) 9524 4289 Chadstone Shopping Centre Fax: (27-11) 726 8633 Fax (02) 9524 8153 Phone (03) 9524 2205 London: 54 Portland Place, London Newcastle Shop 205, Upper Level, Fax (03) 9563 3510 W1N 4DY Charlestown Shopping Square Maribyrnong Shop 2072 Highpoint United Kingdom; Phone (049) 439 763 Shopping Centre Phone: (44-171) 631 4456; Fax (049) 438 460 Maribyrnong Vic 3032 Fax: (44-171) 323 0059 Parramatta Shop 212A Ground Floor Phone: (03) 9317 4652 Moscow: Kutuzovsky Prospekt, Westfield Shopping Town Fax: (03) 9317 4653 Building 13 Phone (02) 9635 9922 Melbourne Shop 26, Galleria Level, Apartment 113, Moscow 121248 Russia; Fax (02) 9891 5668 Galleria Shopping Plaza Phone: (70-95) 974 8182; Penrith Shop 37, Mall Level Phone (03) 9626 1167 Fax: (70-95) 974 8186 Penrith Plaza Fax (03) 9602 5221 New Delhi: A-11 (Top Floor) Phone (047) 21 8299 Ringwood Shop L60, Eastland West End Colony, New Delhi 110021 Fax (047) 21 8159 Shopping Centre India; Sydney Shop 48, The Albert Walk Phone (03) 9879 5094 Phone: (91-11) 687 2337; Queen Victoria Building Fax (03) 9879 5616 Fax: (91-11) 687 2153 Phone (02) 9333 1635 New York: Room 2260, 630 Fifth Avenue Fax (02) 9261 4347 Western Australia New York NY 10111 USA; Ultimo ABC Ultimo Centre, Perth Shop 60 Gallery Level Phone: (1-212) 332 2540; 700 Harris Street The Carillon Arcade Fax: (1-212) 332 2546 Phone (02) 9333 2055 Phone (09) 9321 6852 Port Moresby: Airvos Avenue Fax (02) 9333 1240 Fax (09) 9481 7858 GPO Box 779, Port Moresby, Morley Shop 173, Level 1 Papua New Guinea; Northern Territory The Galleria Morley, Walter Rd Phone: (675) 321 2666, 321 1024; Darwin Shop 55 Phone (09) 9276 7673 Fax: (675) 321 2131 Casuarina Shopping Square Fax (09) 9276 6286 Tokyo: NHK Hoso Centre, Jinnan, Phone (089) 278 788 Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150 Japan; Fax (089) 271 291 Phone: (813) 3469 8089; Fax: (813) 3468 8445

124 list of tables, maps and graphs list of tables, maps and graphs

Tables Television Average Weekly Reach 25

Five Year Funding Analysis 6 Television Audience Share 25 ABC Television Most Popular Programs 26 Australian Content on ABC-TV 30 Australian Content 6am-midnight 30 Organisation Chart 8 Australian Content 6pm-midnight 30

Maps Online accesses 42

ABC Bureaus and Correspondents 16 Enterprises Accrued Profit 46 ABC Local Radio Coverage 19 Enterprises Cash Contribution to ABC 46 Enterprises Revenue 46 Graphs Concert Attendances 51 Operating Revenue 5 Number of concerts 51 Operating Expenses 5 Orchestral Activities 53 Revenue from Independent Sources 5 ABC Staff 1987-1997 56 Local Radio - Program Source 19 Staff by Gender 56 First Run Programs on ABC-TV 31 Staff by Portfolio 56 Radio Audience Share 24 Staff by Location 56 Radio Audience Reach 26 Staff by Job Group 56

125 Index

A Charter, 12, 70, 85, 104 ABC Board, 1-3, 5, 7-8, 12-14, 32, 36, 43-44, 52, 67, 70, Chief of Staff, 8, 65, 104 85, 104, 120 Children’s programs and products - see also ABC for Kids, 30, ABC designed or developed, 63-64, 71 48, 105 ABC Centres, 4, 46 Classic FM, ABC - see ABC Classic FM ABC Classic FM, 4, 25, 27-28, 33-34, 47, 51, 69, 104, 110, Co-production, 9, 16, 28, 30, 33, 41-42, 45, 84, 107-108 116-117 Code of Practice, 71, 100, 104, 106, 112 ABC for Kids, 46, 48, 110 Comedy, 31, 35, 44, 101-102, 105, 108, 110 ABC Offices, 100, 121 Commonwealth and Federal Government, 3, 7, 36, 38, 41, ABC Online, 2, 4, 16, 21, 35, 40-43, 63, 70-71, 108 49, 62, 69 ABC Shops, 4, 46, 48, 72, 100 Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), 55 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Staff, 55 Complaints, 66-69, 71, 100, 106, 113 APESMA, 55 Concert performances, 49 Archives, 43, 63-64, 68 Concerts, 4, 8, 13, 28, 33, 48-49, 51, 53, 76, 81, 85, 100, 103, 120, 122 Arnbridge, 78, 85, 89-90, 94-96, 98 Consultants, 67, 82, 84-85, 100, 120 Arts, 2, 7-8, 12, 28, 32, 34-35, 44, 49, 53, 64-67, 70, 74, 81, 96, 101-102, 106, 109 Copyright, 58, 60, 72, 104 Asia Pacific, 4, 36-39 Corporate Affairs, 65, 67 Assistance to overseas broadcasters, 64 Corporate Management, 65, 67, 69, 71, 104, 120 Audiences, 1, 4, 8, 10-15, 17-26, 28, 30-33, 36, 38, 40-43, Corporate Plan, 66, 71 48, 51-53, 62, 64, 67-68, 71, 102, 104-106, 112 Corporate Policy, 65-66 Audit, 57, 59, 73-74, 82, 97, 100, 104, 120-121 Corporate Strategy, 65-67 AusAID, 7, 40 Correspondence, 71 Australia Television, 1, 3-4, 13, 27, 36, 38-40, 58, 60, 65, 71, 76, 78, 85-86, 90, 94-96, 98-99, 120-121 Cost of Services, 6, 76, 94 Australian Broadcasting Authority, 9, 66, 71, 106, 117, 119 Current Affairs - see also News & Current Affairs, 2-4, 8-10, 13, 15-17, 21, 27, 31-32, 34, 36, 39-40, 44-45, 58-59, Australian composers and composition, 51 76, 81, 83, 101-102, 104-106, 108-109, 111, 120-122 Australian content, 26, 66, 112-113 Australian Information Media, 96, 98 D Australian music, 4, 33, 35, 37 Defamation, 59-60 Awards, 3, 29, 31, 33, 39, 46-47, 51, 68-69, 100, 107-111 Department of Communications and the Arts, 53, 65-66 Digital equipment, 64 B Digital Technology, 58, 62, 64 Board, 1-3, 5, 7-8, 11-14, 32, 36, 44, 52, 59-61, 65, 67, 70, Digitisation, 11, 62-64 74, 85, 104, 120 Directors, Statement by, 10-11, 13, 73-75 Business support review, 54, 58, 61 Directors, see Board Documentaries, 4, 9, 28-29, 32, 44, 104, 108-109 C Drama, 4, 9, 30, 32-34, 44-45, 101, 104-105, 107-109 Centres, 4, 35, 43, 46, 48, 51, 68 D-CART, 16, 64 Chairman of the Board, 2, 7, 14, 65, 75 D-RADIO, 64 Challenge of a Better ABC Volume 1 or 2 - see also Mansfield Review, 10-11, 15, 18, 21, 27, 32, 43, 48, 63, 65

126 index

E Intranet, 59, 71 Editorial independence, 104 Editorial Policies, 66-67 L Education, 4, 9, 14, 32, 38, 44, 51-52, 68, 83, 101, 107 Legal and Copyright, 58, 60 Employee relations, 54-55, 104 Licensing, 46, 48, 64, 104, 111, 121 Enterprise Agreement, 54 Local Radio, 18-22, 24, 37, 102, 108 Enterprises - see ABC Enterprises Local Television, 18, 20-22 Entertainment programs, 112 M Equal Employment Opportunity, 54-55 Management Restructure, 11 Executive, 7-9, 11, 37, 44, 55, 67, 70, 104, 107-108, 121 Managing Director, 2, 7-9, 65-67, 72, 75, 97, 104, 120-123 F Mansfield Review, 2, 10, 18, 36, 62, 67, 69-70 Finance and Business Services, 9-10, 58-59, 61, 67, 104, Marketing, 5, 11, 18, 23, 46, 52, 60, 64, 68, 107-108, 110, 120-121 112, 121 Financial Management, 58-59 Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), 55 Freedom of Information, 71 Metropolitan Radio, 4, 21, 24, 114, 117 Funding - see also Triennial Funding Agreement, 2-3, 5, 10- Minister for Communications and the Arts, 2, 8, 64, 67, 70, 14, 17, 22, 32, 38-39, 45, 53, 58, 62, 65, 67-71, 86, 96, 74, 81, 96 112 Multimedia, ABC, 4, 40 Music publishing, 47, 104, 111 G

Gifts Donations, 120 N National Advisory Council, 8, 67, 70-71, 111 H National History Challenge, 68, 71 History Challenge - see National History Challenge National Networks, 3-4, 8-10, 24, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, Human Resources, 5, 8-11, 54-55, 57, 104, 120-121 41, 43-45, 66, 76, 81, 85, 102, 104, 120-121 National Transmission Agency, 6, 14, 21, 62, 81, 87, 117, I 119 News and Current Affairs, 2-4, 8-10, 13, 15-17, 21, 27, 31- Independent Complaints Review Panel, 67, 71, 100, 106, 32, 34, 36, 39-40, 44-45, 58-59, 81, 104-105, 111 113 Newspoll, 69 Indigenous, 18, 29, 42, 45, 109 NewsRadio, 3-4, 25, 27, 34-35, 104 Indigenous programs, 29, 42, 45 Industrial relations, 9, 54 O Information programs, 38 Occupational health and safety, 54, 57 Information technology, 49, 58-59, 104, 120-121 One ABC, 1, 3, 5, 8, 10-12, 15, 27, 44, 54-55, 57-59, 61, 65- International broadcasting, 12-13, 58, 64-65, 108 67, 70-71, 120 International Broadcasting Review - see Senate Committee Online services, 27, 41, 63 inquiry into Radio Australia and Australia Television Open days, 18, 67-69 International correspondents and bureaus - see overseas correspondents and bureaus Open Learning, 42, 102 International coverage, 16 Optus, 39, 43, 79, 108 International services, 4, 12 Orchestras, 1, 4, 12-13, 49, 51-53, 58 International training, 57 Organisation chart, 8 Internet, 4, 16-17, 41-42, 52, 108 Overseas correspondents and bureaus, 4, 16, 122

127 P Short wave broadcasting/transmission, 4, 36-37 Parliament, 4, 8, 34-35, 55, 67-68, 85, 102, 104, 120, 122 Simulcasts, 63 Parliamentary News network - see NewsRadio Southbank Centre, ABC Melbourne, 122-123 Pay TV - see Subscription Television Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), 9, 14, 38-39, 68 Payroll systems, 49 Sponsorship, 84, 87 PNN - see NewsRadio Sport, 15, 18, 20, 31, 39, 44, 69, 101-102, 108, 110 Program highlights, 20 Staff development, 57 Program Production, 3, 8-10, 36, 44-45, 67, 69, 76, 81, 104, Staff statistics, 56, 100, 103 122 Studios, 18, 30, 59-60, 63 Program sales, 84 Subscription Television, 93, 96 Property management, 58, 60, 121 Subtitling, 113 Public opinion of the ABC - see Newspoll Superannuation, 82, 89, 95, 121 Publishing, 4, 9, 47-48, 60, 69, 104, 111

T R Talks, 31 Radio Australia, 3-4, 13-14, 27, 32, 36-39, 63, 65, 69, 76, 81, 99-100, 102, 104, 107-108, 119, 123 Technology Strategy and Development, 8-10, 59, 63 Radio National, 3-4, 7, 9, 21, 24, 27, 31-32, 36-37, 62, 70, Telecommunications, 3, 60, 64-65 102, 104, 107-108, 115, 117, 121 Training, 37, 43, 54-55, 57, 61, 68, 104, 107-108, 113, 121 Recordings, 4, 28, 52, 72 Transmission facilities, 14, 62, 117, 119 Regional Radio, 4, 9, 19-22, 24, 63, 70, 108, 110, 114, 117 Transmitters - see also National Transmission Agency, 4, 21, Regional Services, 1, 3-4, 8-10, 18-19, 21-23, 27, 45, 76, 36, 62-63, 81, 100, 113-114, 117, 119 81, 85, 104, 120, 122 Triennial Funding Agreement, 10, 12, 14 Religious programs, 105 Triple J, 3-4, 19, 25, 27, 32, 35-36, 46-48, 62-63, 70, 102, Remote Area Broadcasting Services, 63 104, 110, 112, 116-117 Reshaping the ABC - see also One ABC, 5, 10-11, 55, 67 U Resource management, 17, 52, 54 Ultimo Centre, ABC, 17, 121-122 Review operations - see also Business Services Review, 16, 62, 64, 67 Unearthed, 35-36 Risk management, 120 Rural programs - see Regional Radio, Regional Services V Rural Woman of the Year Award, 19, 23, 112 Violence, 65-66, 70, 104, 111

S W Sales and distribution, 48, 64, 104 Women in training, 57 Satellites, 104 Women in Sport, 31 School concerts, 103 Women in Senior Executive positions, 55 Science, 3, 31-32, 35, 40-41, 44, 102, 107-109, 112 Senate Committee inquiry into Radio Australia and Australia Y Television, 3, 39, 65 Youth audiences and programming, 30-31, 111 Senior Executives - see also Executives, 15

128 The West Australian Symphony Orchestra performing at the Perth Open Day

‘In Australia today the ABC has become the central means by which we comprehend the shifting pattern of our culture, a multifaceted mirror in which we see ourselves and our changing world: and in its plurality of images and voices, reflected in this single, very Australian glass, we come to share a sense of unity and commonality which might otherwise be utterly lost to us, slipping beyond our reach in the global avalanche of change.’

Submission from Rural NSW in, The challenge of a better ABC Volume 2: A report on submissions received by the review of the role and functions of the ABC

Published by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Designed and typeset by ABC Corporate Relations, Printed by Agency Printing For information on this Annual Report please contact: Manager Corporate Publishing, ABC Corporate Relations GPO Box 9994 in your capital city ‘Australia has been well served over a long period of time by the ABC. Despite the changes in recent years, I conclude from my review that a strong and effective ABC is still greatly valued by the people of

Australia. It is seen as making a vital contribution to the social fabric of the nation and the development of a distinctive

Australian culture.’

Bob Mansfield, The challenge of a better ABC Volume 1: A review of the role and functions of the ABC