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“Virtually all of [Radio National’s] The Health Report with Norman programs you can access via Swan appeals to both specialist and mainstream audiences, setting their website as streaming health and medicine within social, radio or podcasts.” scientific and political contexts. It is broadcast on ABC Radio National Anthony D, Castlemaine, Victoria at 8.30am Mondays and both repeated and podcast.

“The key thing is how much As more programs become [triple j has] influenced my life” available for podcasting and David G, Morisset, NSW vodcasting, listeners can catch the ABC programs that cater for their particular interests at times that suit their particular lifestyles.

Collectors (8pm Friday ABC Television) Collecting is addictive whether it’s art deco or bottle tops. More than a showcase for collectables, this program offers practical hints and is an extraordinary expose of people’s curious habits and obsessions.

At the Movies (10pm Wednesday on ABC Television and repeated) Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton combine a passion for cinema with decades of movie- going and an encyclopaedic knowledge of film history.

Philosopher’s Zone (1.30pm Saturday on ABC Radio National, repeated and podcast) Presented by Alan Saunders, who studied Philosophy in Britain and at the Australian National University, 6:30pm the program looks at the world of philosophy and at walking the dog to the world through philosophy— both the simple questions of life The Health Report podcast and perplexing issues in contemporary society. 68

Sue Howard Director of Radio

A passion for the wireless became a career when Sue Howard joined the ABC in 1986. She has presented programs on Radio National, ABC Classic FM and Local Radio and achieved some impressive firsts for the ABC, pioneering ABC Radio’s midnight-to-dawn shift, becoming the first woman to present a Breakfast program in 1993 and the first female Local Radio manager when taking on the combined metropolitan and regional management responsibilities in Victoria in 1996. Sue was appointed Head of Regional Services in 1996 and Director of Radio in 2000. She remains passionate about the wireless and is excited about its digital radio future. Sue holds a Bachelor of Arts from Monash University and a Diploma of Education.

and podcasts. In June, ABC NewsRadio began ABC Radio podcasting Federal Parliament Question Time to coincide with the 60th anniversary In 2005–06, ABC Radio increased local of Parliamentary broadcasting. content for local audiences, strengthened its participation with Australian communities ABC Radio now distributes its programming and expanded the availability and reach of far more widely than its traditional radio its content on new platforms. broadcasting networks. Its content appears on radio, television and online, as well as in Using National Interest Initiatives (NII) print, on mobile phones and other emerging funding, ABC Local Radio introduced new platforms, and in a range of merchandise. Breakfast shifts from Port Lincoln, South Australia in September 2005 and from The Division constantly examines emerging Shepparton, Victoria in October 2005. These platforms and opportunities for its content will generate approximately 1 000 hours and is well positioned for the introduction of new local programming in a full year. of digital radio in 2009.

ABC Classic FM introduced local news Distinctly Australian bulletins in each State, providing listeners In its fifth year, the ABC Radio Regional with local weather and traffic information Production Fund (RPF)—established with NII at peak times of the day. funding to showcase new talent in regional Australia—commissioned 125 hours of new Consistent with its essential role as an Australian content for ABC Radio networks, emergency broadcaster, Local Radio with a particular focus on projects which established a new national Manager of could be delivered to audiences on multiple Emergency Broadcasting and Community platforms. Interactive websites with online Development in April 2006 to coordinate the videos were commissioned to accompany network’s coverage of emergencies and several regional radio series and programs, further connexions with local communities. including The Wounding Song, The Last Outback Boxing Troupe, Where Can I Get In March 2006, 774 ABC Melbourne a Drink Around Here, From a Trickle to a commenced live online streaming. Throughout Roar: Stories from the Australian Alps and 2005–06, ABC Radio increased the amount of Kameruka. The latter three projects were its content available online as MP3 downloads also commissioned for screening on ABC2. 69

In 2006, following negotiations with the through August 2006. The competition will National Australia Day Council, ABC Local culminate in a national final broadcast direct Radio replaced Southern Cross Broadcasting from the Sydney Opera House in September as the major media partner of the Australian 2006. As well as prize money, the winning choir of the Year Awards. will receive a specially-commissioned new choral work to perform on ABC Classic FM. Australian Music In November 2005, triple j celebrated The 4th annual 1233 Newcastle Music Awards Australian Music Month, broadcasting were held in October 2005. The Awards exclusive live events on Live at the Wireless. provided support and airplay to emerging New and emerging Australian acts featured artists living in the NSW Hunter and Central on the network every day as part of triple j’s Coast regions and attracted 2 000 entries Next Crop initiative and its website offered in 23 categories, providing 400 new music podcasts of interviews and music from the tracks for the 1233 ABC Newcastle playlist. Next Crop artists and live performances and interviews from well-known Australian Regional artists discovered through the RPF’s bands. At the same time, listeners were 2004–05 Fresh Air competition featured in a invited to submit an “Ausmusic Mix” tape for series of regional concerts in all States and the a chance to program an hour of Australian Northern Territory to celebrate the Country music on the station. In December 2005, Hour 60th Anniversary. A second series of triple j announced the new J Awards for Best regional concerts showcasing emerging Australian Album, which are designed to regional artists was commissioned for 2006, reward outstanding achievement in Australian the first of which were held in Lameroo, music. The network also received funding South Australia, in April and Maryborough, from the Australia Council to develop a site Victoria, in May. for its unearthed project that will allow artists to upload their music to the site at Young jazz musicians from the Central any time and allow listeners to access the Queensland Conservatorium were offered music online. That site will be launched in the chance to play and perform with leading August 2006. jazz performers in a tour of eight Central Queensland regional centres. Approximately ABC Classic FM launched its inaugural Choir 9 000 people attended the performances of the Year competition. Auditions were held in June. The concerts were recorded for in each State and Territory and a series of broadcast on ABC Local Radio, dig and finals broadcast on ABC Classic FM from March ABC Classic FM. 05–06

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four popular Australian acts, the concert ABC Radio continued was broadcast live across Australia. triple j’s Super Request program was presented live Australian Communities from the town and the current affairs and ABC Local Radio plays a vital role within talkback program Hack stationed a reporter the Australian community as an emergency in Port Pirie during the week to file stories broadcaster. In 2005–06, Local Radio staff from the region. participated in planning events with emergency services in all States and Territories around In February, approximately 40 small Australia in preparation for natural and other communities around Australia heard triple j disasters. Local Radio stations provided for the first time after applying for coverage of emergencies to affected audiences transmission through the federally-funded in many parts of the country, as described in self-help subsidy scheme. Over a week, The ABC in the Community (page 48). triple j’s Top Shelf presenter Robbie Buck welcomed listeners from these communities, Rural Radio’s Country Hour 60th Anniversary who were given first priority for requests Roadshow, which started in Rainbow, Victoria in the nightly Super Request program. To in May 2005, visited Oodnadatta in South celebrate the arrival of triple j in Broome, Australia, Cooktown in Queensland, Hyden Robbie Buck and Breakfast presenters Jay in Western Australia, Riana in Tasmania and and The Doctor broadcast live from Broome’s finished in Cumnock in Central West New Cable Beach Amphitheatre in June and South Wales in November. At each event, presented a concert by Australian hip-hop concerts supported by the RPF featured group Hilltop Hoods. well-known artists and regional talent “discovered” through the Fresh Air series. Cross-Media Innovation ABC Radio’s combined websites are estimated In 2005, ABC Classic FM cooperated with to reach 45% (May 2006) of the overall ABC the Music Council of Australia to launch the Online audience. The domestic networks, inaugural Flame Awards, to acknowledge as well as dig and dig jazz, are available on and reward the country’s best school music the Foxtel and Austar satellite subscription programs. The competition is open to all television platforms, while dig and dig jazz are primary and high schools across Australia broadcast on free-to-air digital television. dig and the judges consider how the wider and ABC Classic FM are available on digital school community is involved in helping radio trials in Sydney, along with ABC NewsRadio to create the right kind of environment for in Melbourne. triple j content is available on enthusiastic and effective music-making. mobile platforms and ABC Radio has increased Finalists from each State and Territory the amount of its content available online as receive $1 000 for the purchase of music MP3 downloads and podcasts. equipment and a selection of music CDs and magazine subscriptions for their school. The dig digital radio’s three music services (dig, national winner receives an additional $2 000 dig jazz and dig country), Radio National, and hosts a world-class concert for their triple j and ABC NewsRadio are streamed community, organised and broadcast by ABC online 24 hours a day. In March 2006, 774 ABC Classic FM. The 2005 winner was Virginia Melbourne commenced streaming, joining State School from outer Brisbane. Local Radio’s ABC Coast FM and 702 ABC Sydney, which are available online 24 hours a In April, South Australia’s Port Pirie hosted day. Operational issues delayed the roll-out of triple j’s One Night Stand concert. Featuring audio streaming of the remaining metropolitan Presented by allowing itssubscribers to access on theHutchison 3mobile phonenetwork, of theshoware alsoavailable ondemand music material from ABCTelevision. Elements interviews andfeatures, aswellarchival comprises musicclips, performances, music. Aimedatthoseover 30,theprogram emphasis oncontemporary andAustralian blues, soul,country, folk andjazz,with an of musicfrom genres includingrock, pop, ABC2 inJune2006,features adiverse mix Services. Theseries,whichcommenced on initiative withABCNew MediaandDigital television series,asanewcross-media In 2005–06, to similarfeatures through and Telstra subscribers already have access and reviews from theirmobile phones.Optus ringtones, wallpaper,musicnews andfeatures the network’s ev talks to the (video podcasting) thepre-concert introductory ABC Classic FMalsocommenced vodcasting of Representatives Question Time. podcasting theFederal Senate andHouse In June2006,ABCNewsRadiobegan ABC Audiences (page31). more information onpodcasting results, see each weekare RadioNationalprograms. For than halfofallABCpodcasts downloaded 2006, 37programs were beingpodcast. More are regularly podcast. BytheendofJune the numberofRadioNationalprograms that Throughout theyear, ABCRadioincreased introduced progressively in2006–07. Local Radiostations. Theseservices willbe In July 2005, talks andtranscripts. members can download thevideoof Stars commissioned into multi-platform delivery. ABCRadio host Graham Abbott,audience dig triple j Keys To Keys To In Performance ening concerts broadcast in dig tv and launched anew3Gsite , an18-part,weekly triple j Music triple j branched and program. WAP sites. Rising triple j from the initiative involving launched inJuly 2006. New MediaandDigital Services, willbe all ofMozart’s 630works. 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The the Opera Australia Chorusandselected featuring theAustralian Ballet Orchestra, the Concert HalloftheSydney Opera House concert broadcast live across Australia from audience andstaged thefinale withaspecial counted downtheworksselected bythe Countdown moments for the listeners to nominate theirfavourite opera In September 2005,ABCClassic FM invited efforts andtheminers’ ordeal. coverage anddiscussion oftherescue around thecountry provided up-to-date Radio NationalandotherLocal Radiostations Beaconsfield GoldMine.ABCNewsRadio, trapped onekilometre underground inthe duration oftheoperation to rescue twominers Mornings Local RadioinTasmania broadcast Commonwealth Gameswebsite onABCOnline. Melbourne. Thiswasaccompanied bya of CommonwealthGamescoverage from around Australia carried over 120hours In March 2006,Local Radiostations Broadcast Highlights dig from Beaconsfield for thetwo-week . InMarch 2006,thenetwork website. 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for their favourite performances, from which ABC Radio continued 55 classic and rare sets were broadcast. Due to the overwhelming response, triple j plans Former Australian Test batsman Michael to hold the Festival annually. Slater and Australian Women’s Cricket Captain Belinda Clark joined the Radio Sport Co-Productions Australian Test commentary team for the and Partnerships summer season of cricket. Local Radio’s The ABC’s regional youth initiative Heywire coverage was also broadcast via Radio continued with funding from the Rural Australia and the South African Broadcasting Industry Research Development Corporation, Corporation (SABC) and was streamed live the Australian Sports Commission and the on ABC Online. The ABC Cricket website Commonwealth departments of Agriculture, averaged 2.3 million accesses in each week Fisheries and Forestry; Family and Community of Test Cricket during summer, with a peak Services; Health and Ageing; and Transport of 5.5 million for the Third Test between and Regional Services. Heywire 2005 attracted Australia and South Africa. The One-Day a record 800 entries from which 38 winners coverage was also streamed on the ABC were chosen from across Australia. The Cricket website and rebroadcast in South winning stories provided an insight into what Africa by the SABC, on Cricket Plus in the life is like for the young authors in regional West Indies, the Sports Network in New Australia. They were broadcast on ABC Local Zealand and on the International Cricket Radio, triple j and Radio National and Council website around the world. published online. Winners attended the Heywire Youth Issues Forum at the Australian Sunday Profile presented by Monica Attard Institute of Sport in February 2006, where was the only radio program to secure an they explored issues of importance to regional interview with former Australian hostage and rural youth and attended a morning in Iraq, Douglas Wood, who talked openly tea at Parliament House with a number of about his experience and addressed questions Federal ministers. Heywire 2005 culminated about his deal with the Ten network and the in a presentation dinner at Parliament House. criticism that followed. In May 2006, Sunday Profile presented by Julia Baird featured the The ABC co-produced the four-part series A first interview with Shelley Kovco, the widow World Without Waste with the BBC’s Science of Private Jake Kovco, whose death in Iraq Unit. Broadcast on Radio National, the series was the subject of a military inquiry. examined the local and global impact of different waste management policies from ABC NewsRadio produced a special hour-long landfill and incineration to recycling and program in commemoration of the 60th renewables. The program highlighted anniversary of the end of the war in the scientific solutions, as well as the cultural Pacific for cross-platform broadcast on ABC and social obstacles faced by many countries NewsRadio, ABC2 and ABC Online. on the road to reform. A special Radio National website including transcript From its 30 years of broadcasting, triple j summaries, links and a photo gallery selected 500 live performances from its accompanied the series. archival collection to create a ‘virtual music festival’ which invited listeners to vote online from the selection to schedule the Impossible Music Festival broadcast on triple j across a weekend. The Festival attracted more than 48 000 listeners voting 73

Kim Dalton Director of Television

Kim Dalton was appointed the ABC’s Director of Television in January 2006, having previously been Chief Executive of the Australian Film Commission. Other roles have included Manager of Acquisitions and Development for Beyond International Limited, General Manager of the Australian Children’s Television Foundation, Investment Manager for the Australian Film Finance Corporation and principal of his own production company, Warner Dalton Pty Ltd. Kim graduated from the Flinders University Drama School and has a postgraduate Diploma in Arts Administration.

• Answered by Fire, a critically-acclaimed ABC Television drama, presented a personal perspective on Australia’s involvement in East Timor in 1999. ABC Television delivers a commercial-free, • Peking to Paris, one of the most successful free-to-air national television service via ABC Television documentaries, which broadcast and other means, offering followed intrepid adventurers in five 100- distinctive programs that inform, educate year-old cars on a 14 000 kilometre journey. and entertain. It is simulcast on digital • Dust to Dust, an ABC Television co-production, terrestrial and analog frequencies. Its which focused on the lives and work of one unique role and contribution as the public of the last family-owned and operated television broadcaster in Australia is to funeral homes in Australia. deliver content across a broad spectrum • Frank Hurley: The Man Who Made History, a of genres, including programs of specialist one-hour documentary on the achievements appeal, as well as programs for general of the well-known Australian photographer interest audiences. and adventurer. • Spicks and Specks, one of the ABC’s most Engaging in Australia’s social, watched programs. It has a popular website cultural and political life and received several Logie nominations In 2005–06, ABC Television played a key and an AFI Award nomination. role in creating a shared experience and • The Glass House, which won Best Light engaging with many facets of national life Entertainment Program at the 2005 05–06 by broadcasting contemporary and relevant AFI Awards. Australian programs that cultivated a shared • A fourth edition of the popular ABC experience and a national conversation. Documentary series, Dynasties, covering They included: the Roycrofts, the Archers, the Forrests, the Darrell Leas, the Donovans, the Aarons, • Enough Rope with Andrew Denton, which the Jones’s and the Moras. continued to engage leading national and • Remembering Rain, a one-hour documentary international figures on a personal level to co-production between Film Australia and which audiences could relate. On the eve of ABC Television, which talked to families the publication of his controversial diaries, about their experiences in Australia’s

former Labor Leader Mark Latham granted drought-stricken areas. ANNUAL REPORT 20 his first television interview to the program. • Saving Andrew Mallard, an ABC documentary 74

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about an Australian family fighting to quash Australian First-Release and Repeat an unjust murder conviction. Content 6am–midnight, as a percentage of Hours Broadcast • Girl in a Mirror, which documented the work of photographer Carol Jerrems, and

was developed and produced in association 2001-02 with the ABC. It has screened and won accolades in an array of Australian and international film festivals and awards. 2002-03 • A range of other documentaries, including:

Punjabi Love Story, which looked at the 2003-04 lives and loves of an extended Australian/ Pakistani family in Pakistan; Dennis O’Rourke’s film Land Mines—A Love Story, 2004-05 about a family in Afghanistan; The Men Who Would Conquer China, which followed 2005-06 two businessmen trying to establish an investment company in China; and the 0 10203040 personal exploration of a troubled and % unusual relationship with a criminal father, First Release Repeat Bruce and Me.

ABC Television presents Australia’s most comprehensive and respected package of Australian First-Release and Repeat news, analysis and commentary, produced Content 6pm–midnight, as a percentage by ABC News and Current Affairs: the 7pm of Hours Broadcast News, The 7.30 Report, Lateline, The Insiders,

Four Corners, Foreign Correspondent and 2001-02 Australian Story.

ABC Television engages in the life of the 2002-03 nation by covering major commemorative events and programs. It acted as host 2003-04 broadcaster for the 2006 Gallipoli Dawn Service, hosted by Andrew Denton, and provided a live feed to other Australian and 2004-05 international broadcasters. The ABC also broadcast the State ANZAC marches live 2005-06 and a range of other programming on the Gallipoli campaign: Gallipoli Pilgrimage on 0 102030405060 Compass, a Gallipoli Special on Enough % Rope with Andrew Denton and an episode First Release Repeat of Battlefield Detectives covering the events at Gallipoli. In 2005–06, ABC Television confirmed a ten-year commitment to broadcast the Gallipoli Dawn Service, up and subjects, providing great breadth and commitment to abroad range ofgenres ABC Television has continued to upholdits range ofaudiences Providing for adiverse including 1431hours inprimetime. in accordance withlegislative requirements, hours ofHighDefinitiondigital programming, In 2005–06,ABCTelevision broadcast 4383 to differing levels onlocal content.) slightly inotherstates andterritories due the Sydney transmitter. Figures mayvary on 2004–05.(Basedhours broadcast from comprised 7.2%ofhours broadcast, adecline in 2004–05.RepeatAustralian programs (6pm to midnight)slot, compared with57% Australian content, 56%intheprimetime In total, theABCbroadcast 1157hours of Queen byRolf the highly personal andvery popular unique documentaries: 80th birthday,ABCTelevision broadcast two half amillionAustralians. To marktheQueen’s Elizabeth II Service fromStAndrewswithH.M.Queen Opera House Her MajestyQueenElizabethIIattheSydney ABC Television wasalsohost broadcaster for of Gallipoliin2015. to andincludingthe100thAnniversary , events thatwere watched byover and . The CommonwealthDay The Queenat80 The , and children intheolderage range. to provide awide range ofprograms for 2006. The the Most Outstanding Children’s program in and theprogram received aLogieAward for viewers episode hadanaudience of500000 same timeslot in2004.Thehighest rating groups, compared withaudiences for the increases inthe13–17and5–12year old age screened in2005,achieving significant The teen drama materials for teachers andstudents. video of been significantly enhanced withstreaming supporting resources. Onlinematerials have the associated website providing crucial an estimated 500000students aweek,with continued strong performance, reaching winning year, withapopularwebsite. Theaward- compared to thesametimeslot intheprevious and increased the0–4year oldaudience Best FriendCorky The AdventuresofBottleTopBillandhis programs. TheAustralian pre-school program it broadcast 92ofthetop 100children’s children’s programs inAustralia. In2005–06, free-to-air broadcaster ofhigh-quality ABC Television isstill themost comprehensive throughout Australia. depth ofprogramming to audiences Behind theNews Behind theNews Rollercoaster Answered ByFire Blue WaterHigh premiered in 2005 program continued program stories andstudy demonstrated was first 75

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Message Stick, which is produced by ABC Television Indigenous Australians, presents the continued lifestyles, history and culture of Aboriginal ABC Television provides for diverse audience and Torres Strait Islander peoples and interests, such as programs and series with showcases documentaries, drama and classical and contemporary music as the short films. In 2005–06, these included subject, such as Forging the Ring, an ABC Cos I’m Free, about Olympic Gold Medallist production about staging Wagner’s Ring Cathy Freeman, and the half-hour drama Cycle in Adelaide; Lost Highway: The Story Grange, which also screened at national of Country Music; The Blues; and Broadway: and international festivals. The American Musical. Prominent Australians were interviewed by Peter Thompson in ABC Television also provides a wealth of Talking Heads, in its second year; The Cook Australian entertainment, such as The and the Chef presented Maggie Beer and Einstein Factor, My Favourite Film, Strictly Simon Bryant; and The Pet Show engaged Dancing, The New Inventors and Agony pet-loving audiences. Aunts with Clive Robertson, which explored the relationships of six very different ABC Television broadcasts quality Australian partnerships. Gardening Australia continued and overseas comedy, which continues to to perform strongly and the popular Collectors be very popular with audiences. We Can moved into a coveted 8pm timeslot. Be Heroes: Finding the Australian of the Year helped to re-define the Australian The ABC-produced Sunday Arts program “mockumentary” genre and showcased commenced this year with interviews, comedian Chris Lilley’s extraordinary talent, performances, workshops, first-run locally and internationally. The series won Australian documentaries and short films. Lilley the Graham Kennedy Award for Best New Talent and Most Outstanding Comedy at In 2005–06, ABC Television broadcast 256 the 2006 Logie Awards. ABC Television also hours of national sport, including netball, carried social and political satires Da Kath women’s basketball, bowls, hockey and live and Kim Code and The Chaser’s War on tennis, and 453 hours of state and territory Everything. The Chaser also has a significant sports coverage. Most of these were full live online presence and its website averaged coverage, with additional edited highlights around 2 million page views each month. and magazine-style programming. Netball, which has the highest rate of participation of The ABC’s award-winning science series any Australian sport, was broadcast live on Catalyst continued to be Australia’s most ABC2—the first live coverage of the game— trusted source of science television, covering and delayed on ABC Television. ABC Television topics including space and physics, health also produced a weekly half-hour sports quiz and medical, technology, brain science and show, Head 2 Head, for the main channel psychology. The program’s website carries and ABC2. program streams and additional materials. ABC Television broadcast daily highlights Compass continued to explore life’s biggest of competition from the 2006 Paralympic questions, with a focus on religion and ethics, Games in Turin, including coverage of the and providing thoughtful explorations of Opening and Closing ceremonies and a focus contemporary and historical issues. This year, on the performances of Australia’s leading Gallipoli Pilgrimage examined the formative disabled winter athletes. inspiration that Gallipoli provides the nation. 77

Australian Content as a Percentage of The Division continued to broadcast outstanding Hours Broadcast, 2001–02 to 2005–06 programs from around the world, including groundbreaking documentaries like The 2001-02 Gospel of Judas, The Divine Michelangelo and Sir David Attenborough’s Life in the 2002-03 Undergrowth; and gripping crime dramas 6am–midnight such as Jericho and Silent Witness. The 60th 6pm–midnight anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz 2003-04 was marked by the compelling documentary

Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution. 2004-05 A variety of drama was broadcast, including Canterbury Tales, Doc Martin and Unconditional Love. 2005-06

0 10203040506070% A total of 44.6% of ABC-made programs were produced outside of Sydney and ABC Commissioned Programs,* First Release, Melbourne in 2005–06, compared to 37.8% Hours Broadcast 2001–02 to 2005–06 in 2003–04 and 2004–05. These programs 2001-02 included Collectors in Hobart, Can We Help and The Pet Show in Perth, Talking Heads in Brisbane, and Behind the News in 2002-03 Adelaide. Weekly programs such as Compass, Catalyst, Message Stick and 2003-04 Sunday Arts also include segments produced outside Sydney and Melbourne. 6am–midnight 2004-05 6pm–midnight Creative leadership and innovation 2005-06 The Division is engaging with the issues and changes in the rapidly-changing and 0 500 1 000 1 500 2 000 2 500 Hours * ABC internal productions and co-productions; excludes pre-purchased unpredictable digital environment. The programs (including many documentaries and children’s drama programs) Director of Television spoke at a digital media conference on the role of the ABC in ABC Television Genre Mix 2005–06 as a Percentage the digital environment and the importance of Hours Broadcast 6am–midnight (excludes interstitial material) of distinctive, local content for Australian Sp Religion and Et 05–06

ort audiences, and participated in a panel 4% News discussion at the Australian Interactive 4% Movies Arts 6% Multimedia Industry Association (AIMIA) 1% Factua Conference on The Future of Television. hics l 7%

1% 32% The experience of Peking to Paris was n’s enriched with enhanced online content such Childre Entertainment 9% as podcasts, behind-the-scenes stories, journals throughout the journey and regular 4% radio reports from the cars to ABC radio Education Current Affairs stations around the country. Com

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ABC television broadcast a range of innovative The ABC Television program Can We Help programs. The Catalyst series Battle of was an initiative with the independent the Brains, followed gifted teenagers production industry and Screenwest, an competing for gold at the International Biology audience-driven series with the questions Olympiad in Beijing. Two ABC Television arts and stories coming from viewers. ABC documentaries featured in the 2006 Sydney Television also broadcast the new and Film Festival: 900 Neighbours, about the innovative animated comedy Bromwell High. notorious Northcott Building in the Sydney inner suburb of Surry Hills and The Archive Project about Australian documentary makers during the Cold War. The Message Stick documentary Shifting Shelter, directed by Ivan Sen, was screened to great response at the Message Stick Indigenous Film Festival.

Other creative and innovative ABC programs broadcast included drama mini-series The Silence; the popular factual series Outback House, in which a group of Australians spent three months running a remote sheep station as their forebears did in 1861; and Real Life Water Rats, a four-part documentary focused on the work of Tasmania’s elite Marine Police Unit. In addition, ABC Television began producing natural history programs in highest-quality (1080i) high definition format.

Peking To Paris Regional Five-City Metropolitan aKt n i oe2101000 294000 1 Enough RopewithAndrew Denton Special:Billy Connolly Da KathandKimCode Most Popular Television Programs 2005–06 pcsadSek 503000 501000 507000 513000 512000 534000 512000 535000 554000 537000 512000 579000 592000 574000 *Source: RegionalTAM Television Ratings Bears: SpyintheWoods 910000 591000 Spicks andSpecks 649000 Grumpy OldWomen 565000 Enough RopewithAndrew Denton Special:Billy Connolly Schools Spectacular 2005 Grumpy OldMenatChristmas Outback House Doc Martin 1072000 Taggart 1047000 Silent Witness Real Life Water Rats Strictly DancingFinal2005 The Queenat80 135000 1 Sherlock Holmes andtheCaseofSilkStocking 1057000 1098000 The New Inventors Final2005 1105000 138000 1 Midsomer Murders 1164000 Grumpy OldWomen atChristmas The QueenbyRolf 081000 1 Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2005 1140000 1075000 Da KathandKimCode 1190000 Most ABCPopular 1168000 Television Programs 2005–06 1286000 *Source: OzTAM Television Ratings Grumpy OldMenatChristmas 1281000 Agatha Christie: Poirot: After theFuneral My Favourite Film Agatha Christie: Poirot: TheMystery oftheBlueTrain New Tricks Agatha Christie: Poirot: Cards ontheTable 1244000 Strictly DancingFinal2005 Bears: SpyInTheWoods Silent Witness Grumpy OldWomen The New Inventors Final2005 The Queenat80 Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2005 Taggart Midsomer Murders Sherlock HolmesandtheCaseofSilkStocking Grumpy OldWomen atChristmas The QueenbyRolf Average Audience Average Audience 1 079000 1 176000 520 000 527 000 79

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John Hinde 1914–2006

In early July 2006, during preparation of this Annual Report, the ABC learned of the passing of former journalist and film critic John Hinde at the age of 92. The Corporation wishes to acknowledge John's unique contribution to Australian public broadcasting over six decades. He served as one of the ABC's first foreign correspondents during World War II and later as a highly-respected film reviewer before retiring in 1999.

Born in Adelaide, he became editor of the ABC Weekly, before moving to the fledging ABC News department. He became a war correspondent after one of the ABC’s three overseas reporters suffered injury, and was attached to General Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters in 1942.

Following the War, John worked in various roles for ABC News and Current Affairs, contributing to the first ABC news bulletin prepared by ABC journalists (rather than newspaper copy being read on air), the first edition of AM and the first television news bulletin.

In 1966, he became a freelance film reviewer for ABC Radio, providing Monday night radio reviews, which continued until 1992; and, from 1983, he reached new audiences by also appearing on television.

John retired in 1999 and in 2002 was made a Member of the Order of Australia for service to the film and media industry. 81

Director of Lynley Marshall New Media and Digital Services

Lynley has over 20 years experience in the broadcasting industry. She held a series of senior broadcasting positions in New Zealand before joining the ABC in 2000 as Director of New Media and Digital Services. She is responsible for the integrated delivery of the ABC’s digital content, including ABC Online, digital channel ABC2, ABC Video On Demand, interactive television, mobile and other emerging platforms. Lynley leads the ABC’s digital strategy and content development, and represents the Corporation’s interests on various industry groups addressing the development of digital broadcasting in Australia. Most recently, she participated as a member of the Strategic Industry Leaders Group, contributing to the development of the Government’s Digital Content Action Agenda. Lynley holds a Master of Business Administration.

New Media and Digital Services

In 2005–06, New Media and Digital Services as delivering a growing number of podcasts expanded its content and services to cater to and live radio streams of ABC Radio programs. the media consumers seeking content on an on-demand basis and the growing number of High-speed access has led to increased use Internet users who are creating and sharing of online audio and video and has enabled their own content. In response to this continued people to post more of their own content shift toward interactive formats, and given to the web. New Media and Digital Services the higher percentage of broadband users adapted to changing audience preferences across ABC Online versus its peers, the and on 13 March 2006 launched a Video Division added more rich, interactive content on Demand site, which aggregates video to its sites, including video, photo galleries, content from ABC Broadband, ABC2, ABC games and audio content. Television and online documentaries. The availability of audio content across ABC Online The Division also developed new and innovative also increased tremendously with the addition 05–06 television programming and production for of podcasts from all ABC Radio networks. ABC2, the ABC’s free-to-air digital television channel, and ABC Video on Demand. This As user-generated content is gaining was achieved at relatively low cost by popularity with Australian Internet users, utilising cross-media production methods, ABC Online began incorporating more existing resources and integrating audience- audience-contributed photos into the generated content. editorial process, such as ABC News Online galleries of the cyclone in Queensland in ABC Online February 2006. Over the next year, News ABC Online celebrated its 10-year anniversary Online will increase its capacity to allow in August 2005. The site continued to users to read, write and discuss news, ANNUAL REPORT 20 experience strong audience growth, as well combining user-generated content with 82

New Media and Digital Services continued traditional journalism. ABC Online established In March 2006, New Media and Digital Services web logs (“blogs”) on a number of topics hosted a cross-media conference for ABC such as Entertainment and The World Cup, staff to explore how the ABC can address in line with audience interest in this type these changes to ensure the ABC’s relevance of content. to audiences well into the future. The conference included speakers from inside Drawing on ABC Online’s strength in the ABC and from broadcasters and media children’s content, in May 2006 ABC New organisations around the world. There Media and Digital Services, in partnership were also workshops, case studies, and a with the Raising Children Network, launched moderated hypothetical designed to explore abc.net.au/parents. The site brings quality some of the ways in which the ABC might parenting information to Australian families engage in a cross-commissioning model. and raises awareness of issues affecting The conference resulted in increased parents and children. The site complements awareness and heightened interest in the ABC gateways that cover topics relevant digitised media landscape among ABC to parents and children such as health, staff from all divisions. education, science and news. This year’s cross-media projects have included During the year, the Division launched a weekly five-minute Chaser News Alerts for new home page for ABC Online which allows Video on Demand, ABC2 and mobile platforms; users to customise the page for news, Pacific Stories, a curated series of Film weather and a link to the appropriate Australia documentaries shown on ABC2 and ABC Local Radio website by city or town. supplemented with ABC archive material, new introductions and a high-end broadband Cross-Platform Initiatives website; and Dust Echoes, five Australian Audiences are consuming media in very dream-time stories uniquely interpreted different ways as a result of digital technology. by musicians, artists, writers, actors and They are shifting away from passively animators and launched on Video on Demand watching and listening, and are increasingly and ABC2. Downloadable lesson plans and interacting, watching and listening to ABC activity packs were also produced for teachers content on many platforms and in many places. and students. Ace Day Jobs, a new series of

The Wagalak Sisters from Dust Echoes Following thesuccess of young people, sport,artsandtheenvironment. and includesathemedsegmentcovering report daily onlocal newsandcurrent affairs national networkofprogram makers to Demand. Australia Widedraws ontheABC’s Australia Wide New MediaandDigital Services alsoproduced screened inahighlightsprogram onABC2. had theirworkshownonABCOnlineand and community inwhichthey live. Finalists people to filmashortstory abouttheplace national videocompetition, whichencouraged in Australia. which were sentto every secondary school online, bybroadcast onABC2andDVDs with innovative careers wasmadeavailable five-minute videoepisodesaboutAustralians given the DVB-H-enabled handsetsfor a one handset.Over 400participantswere television, data andvoice services onthe to amobile phone,sopeople can have live service enables delivery ofbroadcast television technology, knownas“movemedia”. The Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) participated inaSydney-based trialofDigital ABC2 onotherdigital platforms andin2006 The Divisionhasalsopursued delivery of which makes uponeofthedaily segments. to make aregular videodiaryoftheirlives budding filmmakers were given camera kits content. archives, aswellaudience-contributed Australia andtheAustralian FilmCommission produced thisyear usingtheABC,Film A numberofnewandoriginalprograms were television service. set-top-box orasubscriptionto adigital pay Australian householdswithadigital television, in March 2006.Theservice can beseenin ABC2 completed itsfirst year ofoperation Digital Television ChannelABC2 Video Lives for ABC2andABC Videoon was theresult ofa Video Lives , several investment from theABC. from theSAFC andABC,plusfurtherin-kind series withacash contribution of$450 000 broadband anddigital television animation will befor theproduction ofanintegrated multi-platform animationcontent. Funding produce innovative, interactive andintegrated South Australian mediapractitioners to Initiative inSouthAustralia to encourage also embarked onanewDigital Animation South Australian FilmCorporation (SAFC) New MediaandDigital Services andthe up to four willbecommissioned for production. seven projects were indevelopment, ofwhich via ABC2andABCOnline.Atyear’s end, factual anddocumentary content for delivery geared toward developing cross-platform Initiative (BCPI),aproduction initiative extended theBroadband Cross-Platform with theAustralian FilmCommission, New MediaandDigital Services, inpartnership and international awards in2005–06. recognised withmore thaneleven local to bepopularwithaudiences andwere Network. Manyoftheprojects have proved Arts Corporation andtheRaisingChildren Commission, FilmAustralia, DjilpinAboriginal Corporation, ThePacific FilmandTelevision Film Commission, SouthAustralian Film collaboration partners includetheAustralian locally-produced interactive content. Current industry andincreasing thevolume of producers asameansofdeveloping the tertiary education sector andindependent agencies, government departments,the relationships withState andFederal screen The Divisioncontinued to develop strategic Partnerships trial iscurrently inprogress. proved popular andplanningfor asecond DVB-H applications inAustralia. Theservice technical capability andmarket potential for three-month periodandthetrialtested the 83

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Director of News John Cameron and Current Affairs

John Cameron has been Director of News and Current Affairs since July 2004. He has been with the ABC for more than 20 years, most of that time in Queensland as a radio and television reporter and producer, as well as five years as the Queensland State Editor. John was also Washington Bureau Chief for three years, including the period of the first Gulf War, and worked as State Editor in Victoria, before becoming the National Editor for News and Current Affairs in 2000. He began his career with a newspaper cadetship in New Zealand, and then worked in newspapers and commercial radio in New Zealand, the UK and Australia for 12 years before joining the ABC.

News and Current Affairs

ABC News and Current Affairs continues to are planned for radio current affairs and enjoy considerable success with its flagship television current affairs. A cross-media programs and vast range of services for all review aimed at improving coverage across Australians. Its programming is a significant all platforms was also completed and led part of content on all ABC platforms, both to several pilot projects, including: exploring traditional and emerging, and it attracts the viability of new regional television news strong audiences to all those platforms. programs using existing infrastructure; enhancing television news coverage in The Division’s programs aim to reflect the regional areas with a video-journalism trial Australian identity and contribute significantly in Newcastle, in which solo journalists film to the national debate. ABC News and Current and edit their own stories; and improving Affairs represents quality and localism in coverage of specialist areas such as business a fragmenting, global market. There is an and sport across all platforms using a new increasing focus on delivering content to production model. audiences wherever they are and whenever they want it. News and Current Affairs began broadcasting additional television news updates from a The quality of News and Current Affairs new studio at Ultimo, Sydney, in early 2006. programming was again recognised by peer This is an automated studio operated by a awards, including almost all broadcast presenter and one other person. The new categories of the Walkley Awards, as well facility also provides the capacity to provide as the Gold Walkley and the award for news updates around the clock. Journalistic Leadership. Divisional staff also won both peer-voted journalism Coverage categories of the Logies. During the year, a number of stories domestically and internationally required the Initiatives mobilising of reporters and crews to provide To ensure the highest quality of content in coverage across radio, television and new the changing media environment, the Division media. This mobilisation involved extensive reviewed the operational performance of logistical planning and resources. radio and television news. Similar reviews responses inothermedia. by governments andsparked wide-ranging communities. Thestories led to investigations violence andsexual abuseinAboriginal people innursing homesanddomestic significant issues—the abuseofelderly leading thefieldinreporting oftwo Lateline resignation ofthecountry’s PrimeMinister. in lawandorder inEast Timorthatled to the earthquake inPakistan; andthebreakdown Katrina intheUnited States; thedevastating of Australians facing drugcharges; Hurricane the trialsofso-called BaliNine—agroup dominated bytheLondonandBalibombings; Internationally, thenewsagendawas national security. in theareas ofindustrial relations and Government’s legislative changes,including Games inMelbourne;andtheFederal Australia andTasmania; theCommonwealth and Western Australia; elections inSouth cyclones inQueensland,theNorthernTerritory the rescue oftwominers twoweekslater; Beaconsfield mineaccident inTasmania and Domestically, thesestories includedthe of ABCAsiaPacific), the next morning. service, theAustralia Network(thenew name on ABC2andtheABC’s international television The program willbere-versioned for broadcast broadcast onABCTelevision after business program, Plans are welladvanced for anewnightly news round-up a result ofthechanges,international political discussion program, hosts additional newsbulletins. Barrie Cassidy devoted to analysis ofsport,andtwo revamped, with theintroduction of News andCurrent Affairs programs was The Sundaymorningline-upofTelevision Programs Offsiders had aparticularly effective year, , aswellpresenting the 7 Days Lateline Business was discontinued. Insiders Offsiders Lateline , to be . As . , the television broadcast. had notbeenavailable untilsome timeafter broadband. Previously, thebroadband edition presented simultaneously ontelevision and was thefirst timetheprogram hadbeen “SuperMax”, aboutamaximum-securityjail, The last coverage revisiting thesite ofthedevastation. many ofthereporters involved intheoriginal was broadcast at7.30pmonBoxing Day,with Asian tsunami,aspecialtelevision program To markthefirst anniversary ofthe2004 late 2006. and arelated serieswere inproduction for marking 50years ofABCTelevision journalism At theendofJune,arange ofprograms in Italy, NewYork andChina. abroad. Thefirst three episodeswere set a range ofAustralians livingandworking television called Pacific Focus Michael Maher,former presenter of a national7pmbulletin ofAustralian news. current affairs programs eachweek and bulletins from five to 12eachday,three including anincrease inthenumberofnews for theAustralia Network/ABCAsiaPacific, A new suite ofprograms isbeingproduced the service established aCanberra bureau. the bottom ofthescreen. Atthesametime, and theuseofanews“ticker” runningacross featuring plasmabackgrounds, animproved set, Pacific alsolaunchedanew on-airlook, In 2005–06,thenews service for ABCAsia for eachstate. fresher titles, newcolours andnew images graphics have beenre-designed, combining country. Theopeningtitles andprogram Stateline Four Corners was given anewlook around the , produced anewseriesfor Another Sun program for 2005, that profiled Asia 85

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Papua New Guinea Correspondent Steve Marshall talks with rebel soldiers in Bougainville’s “No-Go” zone

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Four Corners, in conjunction with New Media Staff and resources and Digital Services, also trialled a system The Division restructured its executive to for transcribing, archiving and processing accommodate evolving needs and changed footage before editing that is intended as a circumstances. The number of executives trial for an all-ABC system. The technology remains the same, but two members of the should create greater efficiencies for script executive have had their roles changed. writing, as well as making it easier for content The focus of the Head of Planning includes to be re-fashioned into new media formats. quality control mechanisms, program review co-ordination, cross-media development and The Division continued to make additional new media opportunities. The position of programming using funds provided by the Head of Network and State Coverage has Federal Government under the National responsibility for the 7pm Television News Interest Initiatives. This included enhanced and an overview of State and Territory business coverage, local weekend television operations, as well as management bulletins in the ACT and the Northern Territory, of business and political coverage. and the funding for two reporters in the new ABC studios in Ballarat. The ABC’s annual intake of cadet journalists began in February 2006. The eight cadets To help ensure programs are meeting were chosen after an exhaustive national expectations and their briefs, News and recruitment process. The cadets, who are Current Affairs conducts regular formal each based in a capital-city newsroom editorial reviews of all of its programs. around the country, were brought together in These formal reviews complement the Sydney for two weeks of intensive training— informal daily monitoring of output. the first focused on radio news reporting, the second on television reporting. They have also been given training in Editorial Policies, writing, presentation, legal and copyright, safety and teamwork. personnel issues. The a fullrange ofeditorial, budgetary and Editors inSydney inearly September, covering a conference oftheeightState andTerritory News andCurrent Affairs managementheld technology for moving audioaround Australia. They alsoaimto take advantage ofnew existing bottlenecks intheproduction process. by eliminatingduplication andfreeing up make theseareas more effective andefficient Radio NewsandCurrent Affairs inSydney to Changes were implemented to operations in access byallstaff. available inacomputerised form for easy Guide and common concerns. for onedayto discuss program development Executive Producers alsojoinedtheconference and CurrentAffairsStyleGuide production, delivered includedpresentation, writing, and domestic reporters. Othercourses being relating to safety inthefieldfor international was aparticularfocus ondeveloping courses quality ofitsprograms. In2005–06,there and deliver training courses to improve the News andCurrent Affairs continued to develop for ABCAsiaPacific. been appointmentsinIndonesiaandIndia journalists inoverseas bureaux. There have A program hasbegunto recruit video was revised andfor thefirst timeis Editorial Policies Stateline and the . The program Style News House, whichwasbroadcast onRadioNational. about political language attheSydney Opera Sydney Writers’ Festival, organised aforum English (SCOSE),inconjunction withthe The ABC’s Standing Committee onSpoken foreign correspondents. with more stories from theABC’s A book, into Australian life. experiences thatprovide auniqueinsight of to produce afive-minute video,inthestyle the program. Theprogram invited students student to winathree-month internship with offered theopportunityfor auniversity program wasalsopublishedandtheABC Melbourne andSydney. Abookbasedonthe with anumberofpublicevents inBrisbane, Australian Story Events All radio figures are nationaltotals. broadcasts thatinterrupt bulletin schedules. not includeseasonalvariations, such assport and anyrolling coverage. Thefigures alsodo reporters into radio programs; budget specials ABC AsiaPacific service; live crosses to ABC News Radio, RadioAustralia andthe provided to NewMediaandDigital Services; These figures donotinclude:material broadcasts inSouthAustralia andTasmania. This year thefigures includeelection night and radio onitsdomestic services. Current Affairs programming ontelevision 14 000unduplicated hours ofNewsand In 2005–06,theABCbroadcast more than News andCurrent Affairs Annual Production of Australian Story Travellers Tales2 celebrated 10years onair , whichreflects personal , wasreleased 87

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Radio News Outlet Hours Local Radio and Radio National 7 102 Regionals 3 361 triple j 253 ABC Classic FM 502 Total 11 218

Radio Current Affairs Outlet Hours AM (Early) Local Radio 42 AM (Radio National) 84 AM (Main) 159 AM/PM special Election coverage 3 The World Today 219 PM (Radio National) 183 PM (Local Radio) 204 Saturday AM (Local Radio and Radio National) 40 Correspondents Report 20 Finance Market Report at Noon 8 Finance Market Report PM 16 Total 978

Television News and Current Affairs Outlet Hours 7pm News (all states and territories) 1 445 Evening News Updates 96 Summer Late Edition News 14 News Updates—24/7 (includes weekend midday bulletins) 19 Asia Pacific Focus 17 Australian Story 21 4 Corners 22 Foreign Correspondent (includes Another Sun)23 Inside Business 21 Insiders 36 Landline 52 Lateline 125 Offsiders (began January 2006) 10 7:30 Report 105 Seven Days (ceased November 2005) 7 Stateline 155 The Midday Report 131 State Election night coverage (South Australia and Tasmania) 6 National Press Club 47 Order in the House 17 Parliamentary Question Time 110 Total 2 479 89

Jean-Gabriel Manguy Head, Radio Australia Jean-Gabriel Manguy has been the Head of Radio Australia since 1997. Under his leadership, Radio Australia has moved from being simply a shortwave radio service to an expanding network of rebroadcast partners and local FM relays throughout Asia and the Pacific. Radio Australia’s close relationship with broadcasting organisations in the region has also extended to supporting the development of a free and independent media. Jean-Gabriel migrated to Australia in 1969, studied Asian and Pacific History and worked as a community development worker and trainer in the Pacific before becoming a broadcaster and journalist for Radio Australia. International Broadcasting Radio Australia Your Asia Pacific Network In 2005–06, Radio Australia consolidated To respond to an increasing demand for the ABC’s position as a key international trusted coverage and analysis in Asia and broadcaster, connecting daily with millions the Pacific, Radio Australia boosted its live of listeners across Asia and the Pacific in six coverage and reportage of the major events languages. Radio Australia moved into new and issues of the region. areas of live and online programming to interact more readily with audiences. It A new morning current affairs program, expanded its network of local relays and Connect Asia, was launched to include more rebroadcasts and became more closely live interviews and reports on Asian affairs involved in the development of a free and as listeners in Asia wake up. The program is independent media in Asia and the Pacific. matched in the evening by its sister program Asia Pacific and now provides Asian audiences Connecting With Audiences with an alternative to the highly respected To enhance the relevance of its programming Pacific Beat program, which is targeted at to audiences in Asia, Radio Australia Pacific audiences. introduced a second English-language stream aimed specifically at Asian listeners In 2005–06, Radio Australia provided special at key times of the day. Radio Australia’s coverage of major events in the region, 05–06 broadcasts to Asia and the Pacific continue including the second Bali bombing, Solomon to be built around a common core of Islands elections and the riots that followed, programming, but diverge at certain times the riots in East Timor, the Yogyakarta into programs better tailored to the specific earthquake, the Fiji elections and political interests of listeners in each region. tensions that followed.

Radio Australia’s new morning schedule to Understanding our neighbours Asia was enhanced by a new live morning In Indonesia, Radio Australia’s annual program Breakfast Club, which connects audience reach jumped 30% to 5.9 million with audiences across the region through listeners, with a vast majority of listeners interactivity via telephone, SMS and emails now hearing Radio Australia through local ANNUAL REPORT 20 in a live and engaging format. Its Pacific relays. To respond to this growing trend, counterpart, In The Loop, aimed at Pacific Radio Australia revamped its Indonesian audiences, goes to air later in the day. language schedule to tailor its broadcasts 90

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to the format of local relays and enhance Radio Australia programs are now heard its coverage of local news in the process. on 160 stations in 40 countries in Asia and the Pacific, including 75 live daily satellite In Vietnam, where shortwave listening has relays and nine 24-hour FM relays in Phnom declined steadily in recent years, Radio Penh, Siem Reap, Dili, Port-Moresby, Australia shifted its focus from dwindling Honiara, Port-Vila, Nadi, Suva, Nuku’alofa general audiences to the Internet-savvy and Rarotonga. youth with a new interactive website aimed at addressing their information and Going Digital educational needs. Radio Australia’s multilingual website enhanced its content with additional audio Radio Australia maintained its focus on files and images making it one of the ABC’s educational content with a new situational more popular sites for podcasting and radio and online English-language series streaming. In particular, podcasts of new English for Tourism for China, Vietnam, educational English-learning content Indonesia and Cambodia. A further series, attracted strong interest in China. English for Business is currently in production. Shortwave broadcasting entered the digital era Radio Australia’s Pacific Service saw the with new Digital Radio Mondiale–capable return of the French language with a unique transmitters commissioned at Brandon in online text and audio news service 24 Heures Queensland. The current financial year ended dans le Pacifique, rebroadcast daily by local on a promising note with Radio Australia stations in New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Tahiti. negotiating a rebroadcast arrangement on a digital DAB radio platform in Singapore. Your Local ABC Radio Australia Radio Australia extended its satellite service Media Development to India and Sri Lanka and reached new In 2005–06, the ABC, through Radio Australia, audiences through more local relays and played a prominent role in Cambodia, Papua rebroadcast agreements in Indonesia, China, New Guinea and Solomon Islands in the Cambodia, Tonga and Cook Islands. development of a free, professional and independent media. A growing partnership New 24-hour FM relays were installed and between the ABC and Australia’s overseas enhanced in East Timor, Tonga and Cambodia, aid provider, AusAID, helped Radio Australia with additional relays secured in Bali, Jakarta to provide media development support to some and Aceh in Indonesia. of its key partners in Asia and the Pacific.

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Chief Executive of Ian Carroll ABC Asia Pacific

Ian Carroll has been Chief Executive of ABC Asia Pacific since February 2005. Previously, he was Head of Network and Programming, ABC Asia Pacific. Before that, Ian was Head of ABC Digital Television, where he established two channels, ABC Kids and FLY. Ian Carroll is one of Australia’s most successful and experienced television news and current affairs executives both for the ABC and the commercial networks. Among the Australian programs Ian has created or led as executive producer are Lateline, Nationwide, Channel Nine’s Today, Four Corners, The 7.30 Report, ABC News and the Paul Kelly documentary One Hundred Years. Ian holds a Bachelor of Arts from Monash University and a Graduate Diploma of Media Management from Macquarie University.

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ABC Asia Pacific The service remains one of the fastest-growing ABC Asia Pacific (to be renamed the “Australia channels in the region according to the PAX Network”) is the ABC’s international television Synovate audience survey. It is now seen in arm. It broadcasts to Asia and the Pacific and 41 countries, is retransmitted by no less than operates in a highly competitive market, as 300 television pay operators, is available in most countries in the region offer between more than 200 000 hotel rooms and can be 40 and 100 channels. The service is designed seen in 10.2 million homes (up from 9 million) for an audience demographic comprising across the region. decision makers and opinion leaders in the private and public sector, including emerging Distribution middle class community segments, student Three Services in One and learning communities, and international Due to its ever-expanding footprint, ABC expatriates and Government missions based Asia Pacific transformed its service during in the region. 2005–06 by augmenting its original signal, which is timed to Hong Kong/Singapore (Asia Audience Growth service), with two new signals, one timed 05–06 Throughout 2005–06, audiences for ABC to Suva (Pacific service) and the other to Asia Pacific grew rapidly. The last quarterly Delhi/Mumbai (India service). survey showed annual growth of 52% and an estimated monthly audience of 1 165 000 ABC Asia Pacific introduced its dedicated viewers. Access to the channel’s website India service in September 2005. Timed to during the year increased by 25% to an Delhi/Mumbai, the service allows viewers in average of 250 000 accesses per week. India to watch programs at appropriate times. The India service is currently rebroadcast During 2005–06, the largest audience growth in India through DishTV, India’s largest occurred in Hong Kong. Other markets of direct-to-home pay television operator,

significant growth included Mumbai, Delhi, which places the ABC in over 400 000 homes ANNUAL REPORT 20 Bangalore, Seoul and Bangkok. in India. In May 2006, ABC Asia Pacific 92

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appointed Indian television distribution Online company, Setpro Holdings Pty Ltd, as its The companion website to ABC Asia Pacific exclusive distributor in India. The appointment television, abcasiapacific.com, provides a is expected to significantly expand ABC Asia comprehensive program listing and television Pacific’s audience throughout India in the schedule, and an up-to-the-minute regional coming year. news service produced specifically for an international online audience. During the As with the India service, the Pacific service year, weekly accesses to the online service was introduced to provide local viewers in increased to on average 250 000 accesses the Pacific with the opportunity to view ABC per week. The popularity of ABC Asia Pacific Asia Pacific’s programs at appropriate times. education programs Nexus and English Bites The dedicated Pacific service was introduced were a major factor in this growth. in February 2006 to coincide with the commencement of the South Africa, New Programming Zealand and Australia Rugby (SANZAR) ABC Asia Pacific offers a diverse range of Super 14 rugby union competition. quality programming rather than a single program genre such as movies, sport or New Markets 24-hour news broadcasts. This programming ABC Asia Pacific continued to improve its strategy makes the service unique amongst presence in the Pacific, signing a rebroadcast the international broadcasting community arrangement in French Polynesia during and has played an important role in its rapid September 2005. Working in conjunction take-up . with Tahitian Broadcaster OPT, ABC Asia Pacific became the first channel originated The nightly prime-time programming line-up in English to sign a broadcast agreement is built on four main strands: ABC news and in French Polynesia. current affairs produced for the Asia Pacific region; quality Australian or international Encryption drama series; a world class documentary; Having acquired marquee sports programming, and an informative and entertaining feature such as SANZAR Rugby, Australian Rules or lifestyle program. and Rugby League, ABC Asia Pacific was required to implement encryption of its During 2005–06, the channel’s programming services. This sizeable project, which comprised 80% Australian content, with an required direct-to-home viewers and emphasis on news, drama and information rebroadcasters to register with ABC Asia programs, such as Getaway, RPA, Catalyst Pacific and be authorised to continue to and Australian Story. receive the service, was substantially completed in only two months. ABC Asia Pacific also transmits education programs of real benefit to audiences across The encryption project had the added benefits the region. Nexus and other English-language of providing ABC Asia Pacific with details of learning programs generated considerable over 150 rebroadcasters who took the service viewer support. This viewer support for without its knowledge, as well as previously education programs correspondingly drove unavailable information about its direct-to- online usage in 2005–06, with 50% of all home viewers throughout the region. abcasiapacific.com visitors accessing the education content on the site. 93

In 2005–06, the channel broadened its As a result of the tender, ABC Asia Pacific will Australian sports coverage, with coverage be rebranded “Australia Network” from August of the SANZAR Super 14 competition; live 2006 (its website will be correspondingly broadcasts of home test matches featuring rebranded to australianetwork.com). The the Wallabies, All Blacks and Springboks; new contract with DFAT will see the ABC as V8 Super Cars; the Melbourne Cup and the operator of Australia Network to at least Spring Carnival; and the Australian Rules August 2011. The ABC intends to improve the and Rugby League. service, with changes to the schedule and implementation of strategic directions for Among the most successful programs future growth. Australia Network—a different broadcast in 2005–06 were the 36 ABC Asia name, a different schedule, the same spirit. Pacific half-hour news programs each week; Australian dramas such as All Saints, The Alice and Love My Way; and Australian information programs such as Dynasties, Getaway, Catalyst, The New Inventors and Enough Rope with Andrew Denton.

The Future of the Brand ABC Asia Pacific’s operations are funded directly by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). ABC Asia Pacific’s five-year contract with DFAT will expire in August 2006.

In September 2005, DFAT placed the continuing operations of its Television Service to the Asia Pacific region to open market tender. In December 2005, the Federal Cabinet endorsed the tender evaluation panel’s recommendation that the ABC continue to operate the television service. 05–06

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Robyn Watts Director of Enterprises

Robyn Watts has been Director ABC Enterprises since the establishment of the commercial operations division in July 2003. She began at the ABC in July 2000 as Director Content Rights Management. Before joining the ABC, Robyn was CEO of Southern Star Sales and Director Marketing and Distribution Film Australia. She has been a board member of Screenrights, the Australian Film, Television and Radio School and the Screen Producers’ Association of Australia. Robyn holds a Bachelor of Arts from the Australian National University, a Master of Arts from Reading University, UK and a Graduate Diploma in Business Management from the University of Canberra.

ABC Enterprises

ABC Enterprises contributes to the activities The 2005 Business Process Review of CPCS of the Corporation by selling and distributing examined the business systems and processes ABC programming and content, hiring spare used by each of the CPCS business units and ABC resources capacity, and developing and recommended increased integration between, retailing quality consumer products associated and standardisation across, the business with ABC programming or relevant to ABC operations of all those business units. The Charter roles and values. In this way, the recommendations of the Business Process Division extends the life of ABC programming, Review were assessed and implemented assists in fostering and developing Australian throughout the year. talent and creativity, and makes a financial return to the Corporation for reinvestment ABC Video/DVD reported another above-budget in programs. financial performance, driven by outstanding sales of Da Kath and Kim Code, We Can Be The Division is currently structured into the Heroes, The Aunty Jack Show and a range of three businesses: ABC Consumer Publishing DVD releases from perennial ABC for Kids and Content Sales, ABC Retail and ABC favourites The Wiggles. As in the previous Resource Hire. financial year, ABC Video’s performance was supported by a strong BBC catalogue, including ABC Consumer Publishing titles such as Series 1 and 2 of Little Britain, and Content Sales Pride and Prejudice, Seven Wonders of the In 2005–06, ABC Consumer Publishing and Industrial World and The Office. Content Sales (CPCS) released more than 1 000 consumer products relating to ABC Spotless, by Shannon Lush and Jen Flemming, programming and Charter activities, and was the best selling title for ABC Books for distributed content and programming to the year, with sales of more than 200 000 global business and consumer markets. copies. Other best selling titles for ABC Books The business made a net profit of $11.612 were Why I Live Where I Live, Australian Story, million in 2005–06, compared with $10.640 and 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before million in 2004–05. You Die, as well as leading children’s titles including the 2006 edition of Sing, My Daddy, 95

the Fairy Realm series, My New Baby and Sanctuary, by the Australian Brandenburg Emily’s Rapunzel Hair. The winner of the Orchestra, won Best Classical Album. inaugural annual ABC Fiction Award, a joint Throughout the year, ABC Music artists won initiative between ABC Books and ABC Local two Golden Guitar Awards, three Victorian Radio, was William Elliot for his work The Country Music Awards, the CMAA Entertainer Pilo Family Circus. of the Year Award and the Frank Ifield International Spur Award. Following the The best selling ABC Audio product for the success of the The Classic 100 Piano in financial year was Unplugged, by ABC Radio 2004–05, ABC Classics released The Classic commentator Kerry O’Keeffe. ABC Audio 100 Opera, an eight-CD boxed set, which continued to explore opportunities for sold more than 15 000 units. downloading audio product, and expanded the audio catalogue through the acquisition ABC Events staged major exhibitions, including of audio rights to literary titles including the Gardening Australia Festival in Sydney Salvation Creek, Theft, A Man Without a and Melbourne and the first Gardening Country, and Fat Forty and Fired. Australia Expo in Brisbane. Approximately 35 000 people attended each exhibition. ABC The breadth of music under the ABC Music Events also entertained more than 250 000 umbrella was acknowledged with ABC Music, young Australians at more than 400 concerts ABC Classics and ABC for Kids receiving a and “meet and greets”. New Zealand total of 15 nominations in eight categories audiences were treated to a Bananas in for the 2005 Australian Record Industry Pyjamas tour in September and October. Association (ARIA) Awards. The Wiggles won the Best Children’s Album ARIA for Live The success of Little Britain, on ABC Television Hot Potatoes and the ABC Classics release and in DVD sales, carried through to licensed

Contribution to ABC Revenue ABC Enterprises Revenue by ABC Enterprises by Activity 2005–06

96-97 Product and Content Sales 0.5% 97-98 Gift Licensing 0.4% Magazines 0.4% 98-99 Events Contemporary Music 05–06 2.4% 8.8% 99-00a Music Publishing 0.4% Classics 00-01 Audio 1.8% 2.0% 01-02 3.8% 44.5% Retail 02-03 Books 8.3% 03-04b

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product sales for ABC Licensing, and the with more than 250 hours of quality business introduced innovative new products documentaries, in particular, represented for brands such as Girlforce and The Fairies. a significant increase in new Australian content for distribution to the ABC Magazines added to its stable of licensed international market. titles when it launched a bi-monthly ABC lifestyle magazine, Life etc, in October. The During 2005–06, ABC Product and Content 2005 edition of the ABC Cricket Magazine Sales attended international program and was the highest-selling Ashes edition to content markets MIPTV, MIPCOM, MILIA, date, with sales of almost 17 000 units. ABC ATF, WAEA and SITHENGI. It represented Magazines published in-house a one-shot more than 140 hours of first-release content The Collectors magazine, in association and a new Opera Australia catalogue with the ABC Television program. supplement at MIPCOM 2005 in October.

ABC Music Publishing maintained its In developing new markets for content for commitment to Australian composition and wireless and internet usage, deals were re-appointed Mushroom Music Publishing to finalised with Mobile Streams to distribute administer music copyrights represented by ABC mobile comedy content within the the ABC for a further three-year period. United Kingdom and Ireland, and Optus Mobile for World Cup and Commonwealth ABC Product and Content Sales distributes Games material. ABC Product and Content content produced by the ABC’s Television, Sales launched a number of sites during the Radio and Online platforms and independent year, including six i-mode and WAP sites producers, and ABC consumer product on Telstra Mobile, and the ABC Kids mobile through non-traditional retail sales and channel on Hutchison 3G. direct sales channels. Global clients include broadcasters, producers, airlines, video/DVD In a market where expensive new delivery distributors, educators, museums, Internet technologies are part of the day-to-day and wireless service providers. operations of competitors, ABC Product and Content Sales investigated cost-effective Sales revenue from ABC-owned and delivery methods and worked with partners, independently-acquired content increased including the BBC Motion Gallery, National with a net profit of $2.989 million in 2005–06, Geographic Digital Motion and AP Archive, compared to $2.712 million in 2004–05. to achieve revenue targets for footage sales. Programs including Kath and Kim, The Nominees (a.k.a. We Can Be Heroes), Kylie From January, the Radio, TV and Online Sales Kwong, Surfing the Menu, The Silence, unit began providing copies of titles, including Peking to Paris and The Fairies attracted Australian Story, Four Corners, For the major global buyers. Juniors and Behind the News, in DVD format.

ABC Product and Content Sales continued ABC Retail to implement a strong third party content The net profit for the Retail business for acquisition policy, to offset the decrease 2005–06 was $4.355 million, a 2.6% increase in available ABC-produced content. The on the previous year. acquisition of the Film Australia catalogue 97

Campbelltown—one of the 41 ABC Shops around Australia

At the end of 2005–06, ABC Retail had 132 as book signings by Kostya Tszyu, Shannon outlets trading, comprising 41 ABC Shops, Lush and Ian McNamara. 90 ABC Centres, and the Home Shopping Service which provides home delivery of DVD Sales increased from 44% of all products products ordered by telephone, fax, mail sold in 2004–05 to 54% in 2005–06, while and through the ABC Shop Online. During video sales again dropped significantly to the year, one new ABC Shop was opened represent only 1% of products sold. The most at Tuggerah in New South Wales, 18 ABC popular genres of products sold were comedy, Centres were opened and seven existing children’s and factual. The best-selling Centres closed. products were the Spotless Book, We Can Be Heroes DVD, Little Britain Series 1 and 2 Sales through the ABC Shop Online increased DVDs, and Pride and Prejudice DVD. by 13% on the previous financial year. Demand for downloaded music and ring tones, which ABC Resource Hire were introduced in 2004, continued to grow ABC Resource Hire uses spare capacity slowly. The demand for downloading is in ABC facilities and crews for productions expected to increase significantly when for clients Australia-wide. Services offered video is introduced in 12–18 months time. are digital outside broadcast, live minicam The ABC Reward Program continued to be sports coverage, production services, an important promotional tool, contributing and costume hire and manufacture. Also 22% of total sales. Approximately 200 000 available for hire are studios, rehearsal 05–06 members, including the 33 000 new members rooms and theatres. who joined during 2005–06, used their Reward Card during the year. ABC Resource Hire generated a net profit of $3.222 million in 2005–06, compared with The major national promotions of Father’s $1.245 million in the previous financial year. Day, September Kids, Christmas, New Year It also used $2.36 million worth of the ABC’s Sale, Easter Clearance, Mother’s Day and fixed production labour force compared Mid Year Sale were all successful. During the to $1.93 million the previous financial year. year, 415 local promotions were undertaken The results reflect a strong production in ABC Shops and Centres. The most marketplace driven by television network successful of these were Gardening Australia competition and new events, as well as a ANNUAL REPORT 20 Festivals in Sydney and Brisbane, as well major one-off event, the Commonwealth 98

ABC Enterprises continued

Games. Across the year, the business In 2005–06, ABC Minicam again covered the successfully won contracts to provide V8 Motor Racing series around Australasia, services to all Australian television networks. travelled regularly to Asia for sporting events and covered gliding in New Zealand. In 2005–06, ABC Resource Hire provided studios, facilities and crew for television ABC Costumes continued to grow by increasing programs such as Australia’s Brainiest Kid, its public-hire customer base and expanding Raggs Kids Club Band, Kylie Kwong Series 2, its manufacturing activities. Venue Hire and Five Minutes More, as well as television clients included major cultural organisations commercial shoots for various clients. for performances and recordings in Sydney and Melbourne. In association with ABC Asia Outside broadcast facilities and crew covered Pacific, ABC Resource Hire provided facilities entertainment events including Soweto Gospel and crew for production of education Choir in Melbourne and SBS Movie Show in programs in Adelaide. Perth. National sports outside broadcast coverage included: AFL in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Tasmania; and sports including rugby union, soccer, basketball, horse racing, boxing and canoeing in various locations nationally.

The Commonwealth Games was a key outside broadcast event with trucks, facilities and crew deployed from Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart and Melbourne, as well as minicam facilities, to service both the needs of Host Broadcaster TWI and the unilateral broadcast needs of the BBC. 99

Chief Operating David Pendleton Officer

David Pendleton joined the ABC as the General Manager of Group Audit in 1996. He went on to become General Manager of Financial Operations and Accounting, and later Head of Finance. In February 2002, he was appointed to the position of Director of Finance and Support Services, which was re-named Director of Business Services on 1 July 2003. On 31 August 2004, he was appointed as the Corporation’s Chief Operating Officer. Before joining the ABC, David held senior management positions in the public sector at the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority and State Super Investment and Management Corporation. David holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) and a Graduate Diploma from the Securities Institute of Australia.

Operations Group

The ABC’s Operations Group comprises four Strategic Alignment to support Divisions: Business Services, Human Corporate Objectives Resources, Production Resources and In 2005–06, the Operations Group realigned Technology and Distribution. its resources for maximum flexibility and responsiveness to the technological and Business Services supports the ABC’s legislative environment within which the ABC operations by providing financial advice, operates. The Group focused on structuring analysis and support; accounting services; its services to ensure the delivery of property management; fleet management; infrastructure and equipment necessary archives and library services and for the ABC to continue to fulfil its Charter rights management. obligations into the future.

Human Resources supports the management In November 2005, all the Corporation’s and development of the ABC’s workforce. It capital works projects were consolidated provides a range of services including policy under the newly-created Capital Works development, performance management, Department, which assumed responsibility learning and development, organisation for all aspects of capital project management design, workplace relations, occupational for the output Divisions, including Property 05–06 health and safety (OHS), recruitment projects for which the anticipated value services and payroll operations. exceeds $100 000.

Production Resources provides facilities and The Technology and Distribution Division labour to produce television programs and formed a discrete strategic unit in early to operate Radio and Television broadcast 2006 to concentrate skilled resources on the facilities for the delivery of ABC programming. development and implementation of agreed technology strategies for the ABC. The Technology and Distribution develops creation of the new department will ensure and supports the ABC’s technology and the continuation of the Corporation’s high

transmission infrastructure in accordance standards through the facilitation of strategic ANNUAL REPORT 20 with industry best practice and national debate and the adoption of the best possible and international regulatory requirements. technological solutions to guide the ABC further into the digital broadcast era. 100

Operations Group continued

In 2004, the Operations Group began 63 outside broadcasts for Television. This developing a ten-year Integrated Capital included the visit of Queen Elizabeth II, Strategy to manage the ABC’s infrastructure the Port Arthur Memorial Service and the at a sustainable level. The work of that Tiwi Island Football finals. Internationally, project fed into the Corporation’s Triennial news crews travelled to trouble spots in the Funding Submission 2006–09, as a result of region—Solomon Islands, East Timor, Bali and which the Government announced in the May the Indonesian mainland—to provide additional 2006 Budget that it would augment the ABC’s support to the overseas news bureaux. capital spending by $45 million over three years. Following this announcement, the The ABC’s archival collection, managed by Operations Group recommenced intensive the Business Services Division, was a source work on the Integrated Capital Strategy. In of inspiration for program-makers and conjunction with this work, Human Resources enjoyment for ABC Audiences. Late Night initiated dialogue within the Corporation Legends, ABC2’s top-rating program for about the shape of the ABC’s future workforce 2005, showcased sporting highlights from into the future as a precursor to workforce the ABC’s Archives, while music fans around planning initiatives in 2006–07. the world have enjoyed music clips made available through film preservation projects. Output Delivery Access to material in the collection enabled The Operations Group continued to support the re-broadcast and DVD release of a number the delivery of ABC services, providing of ABC classics, including Palace of Dreams, resources to facilitate the creation and Scales of Justice and the fabulous Aunty distribution of content for more Australians. Jack DVD, which was compiled with the assistance of National Archives of Australia. Content Creation In 2005–06, Production Resources provided In 2005–06, the Technology and Distribution more than 1.23 million hours of labour Division introduced around-the-clock across all states and territories for more technical support in Sydney and Melbourne. than 200 television projects, special events This commitment of resources allows the and new projects. ABC to more efficiently fulfil its commitment to its 24-hour broadcasting operations. An Coverage of the number of significant global, improved response time to emergencies has cultural and political events in 2005–06 provided greater continuity of Television and required high-level co-ordination and expert Radio broadcasts for ABC audiences. technical skill. This year, Technology and Distribution technical services staff and Content Transmission and Distribution Production Resources crews provided support The Broadcast Operations Group co-ordinated —including broadcast and communications and managed the distribution and delivery facilities—for the coverage of two State to audiences of all television and radio elections, the Commonwealth Games, signals nationally. the Beaconsfield Mine rescue in Tasmania, Cyclone Larry in Queensland and the The ABC increased its potential audience Katherine floods. reach in 2005–06 with the commencement of 54 new radio services through the Radio The two groups together also supported Subsidy Scheme. This highly successful reporting across all platforms, including scheme allows communities the opportunity channel, ABC2,and programming information for theABCmain went live inMay2006.TheGuidedisplays services, theABCVideoProgram Guide As partofthesuite ofABCdigital television Mallacoota, Myrtleford, Rosebud,Kiewa. Victoria: Bell, Tully, Monto, Mission Beach,Tara Collinsville, Ravenshoe, MiriamVale, Warwick, Yeppoon, Ayr, Miles, Harbour, Stuart,Texas, Wangetti, Redlynch, Rockhampton East, Shute Mareeba, Mossman, Proserpine, Goondiwindi, Herberton, Hervey Bay, Queensland: Cooma/Monaro Kandos, Laurieton, Mudgee,UpperHunter, New SouthWales: The newservices were established at: signal from aminimumof440locations. The Corporation aimsto transmit itsdigital locations, compared with95.82%in2004–05. of Australia’s populationfrom 177transmitter the ABC’s digital transmission reach to 96.19% transmission services commenced, bringing digital services. Forty newdigital television of equipmentandtheestablishment ofnew broadcasting in2005–06,withtheupgrading The ABCcontinued itstransition to digital total, servicing83regional communities. Eighty-nine newservices are plannedin service ofanythefive radio networks. establishing anABCRadioretransmission to receive aone-timesubsidytowards carried out ontheABC’s HeadOffice at review byAustralian Federal Police was broadcasting operations, asecurityrisk with appropriate securityto protect its and procedures. Inorder to provide theABC general public,itregularly revises itspolicies governance andthesafety ofitsstaff andthe As theABCiscommitted to strong corporate Management Supporting Responsible weather forecast. program promotions andthenational Cann River, Genoa,HallsGap, Airlie Beach,Eidsvold, Albury, Gloucester, dig radio, aswell details online. TheDivisionalso made some oftheirpersonal employee and payroll This service enables staff to viewandupdate an Employee SelfService to all ABCstaff. The HumanResources Division implemented Commonwealth heritage value. have beenidentifiedasdisplayingpotential Station, Elst Building), Hobart;andtheMetropolitan Fire Rockhampton; Railway Station (Stone Mount Morgan GoldMiningCo.Building, heritage value: Middenbury House, Brisbane; properties have beenassessed ashaving with ownership ofheritage items. Four management andplanningissues associated Commonwealth heritage value and addresses Corporation inidentifyingABCproperty with developed Heritage Strategy assists the and property management.TheABC’s newly consistent withbest practice inconservation and caring for heritage property initscontrol, 2003 Biodiversity ConservationActAmendments Under the more efficientandrobust system. time-recording procedures, introducing a The Divisionalsorevised itsrostering and in place asaresult oftheFacilities Review. systems for facility utilisationdata were put and itsABCclientdivisions.More appropriate demand planningfor Production Resources developed, resulting inbetter supply and The Costed Supply Plancontinued to be towards maintaining operational capacity. saving of$1.5million,whichwillbeput restructure resulted inanannualrecurrent in 2004.Amanagementandadministrative independent review oftheDivisionconducted to implement therecommendations ofan In 2005–06,Production Resources continued be completed bytheendof2006. the review. Theseworksare expected to that implement therecommendations of physical securityoftheUltimoBuilding was underwayfor improvements to the Ultimo. AttheendofJune2006,planning , theABCisresponsible for identifying Environment Protectionand ernwick. Afurthertwelve sites 101

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Behind the scenes at the tally room during the Tasmanian State election

appropriate policy and system adjustments ABC-owned Port Moresby premises. Premises in anticipation of the introduction and were also refitted in Shepparton in Victoria, implementation of Super Choice, the new Mount Isa in Queensland and Port Lincoln Public Sector Superannuation Accumulation and Mount Gambier in South Australia. Plan scheme (PSSap) and ComSuper’s Employer Services Online (ESO). In accordance with new channel requirements imposed by the Australian Communications The ABC’s Finance System (SAP) database and Media Authority (ACMA) in 2004, the software was migrated to a new database phasing-in of new digital electronic news to facilitate the future upgrades of the gathering equipment for television was system. Management reporting and completed in all states and territories. payment processing were improved with The new equipment enables safer and the implementation of an interface for more flexible news-gathering and supplies travel-related expenses. a clearer picture to the ABC television news audience. Projects Technology and Distribution completed Since commencing its online service in 1995, planned upgrades to five regional radio the ABC has been committed to creating studios, including the installation of new a diverse online media experience for its digital radio consoles that can be maintained audience. In order to meet the current and monitored remotely. The ABC intends demands of its growing audience, a New to upgrade a total of 38 regional studios, Media Resilience project was initiated providing its regional radio audiences with to improve the online infrastructure and a more efficient service. provide a broadcast level of reliability. The project was completed this year and The five studios upgraded this year were the ABC’s services are now accessed Port Lincoln and Port Pirie in South Australia, by 28 million people each week. Shepparton in Victoria, Mount Isa in Queensland and Launceston in Tasmania. The ABC has continued its commitment Refurbishment work was completed on the to the Government’s review of Critical ABC’s leased overseas properties in New Infrastructure capabilities as the major Delhi, Tokyo and Bangkok, and in the provider of emergency-related information health andsafety requirements. compliance to stringent ABCoperational case ofthenewcable-less cameras, better will provide greater efficiency,andinthe introduction ofnewandintegrated technologies play-out technology. Thereplacements and replay facilities, includingcameras, editand and Current Affairs acquisition,editingand the process ofreplacing itsTelevision News projects in2005–06.TheCorporation isin The ABCcommenced several majorcapital hours ofradio andvideoindigital format. digitisation strategy, preserved 12000 Project, akey component oftheABC’s Business Services Archives Digitisation and future archival material. In2005–06, for preservation andonlineaccess to existing digital libraries hasestablished aplatform over the2005–07period.Thenetworkof converting 60000hours ofanalog content the UltimoCentre, withthetask ofinitially A conversion centre wasestablished in Storage Area networks andTape Libraries. state capital locations, andare basedaround the digitisedcontent were installed inall Networked systems for storing andmanaging video mediaarchive commenced thisyear. Digitisation oftheABC’s uniqueaudioand such asanatural disaster orutilityfailure. event ofasubstantial business interruption, on-air radio andtelevision services inthe improving theCorporation’s abilityto restore completion ofaspecificproject dedicated to capabilities. Thisyear sawthesuccessful Management andDisaster Recovery regular scenario-based testing ofCrisis Continuity Managementprogram, including Corporation maintains afocused Business services to Australian communities. The Operations Group and theirtroubled aftermath. coverage oftheSolomon Islandselections enabled theSIBCto deliver itsfirst live systems were delivered. Notably, theproject and introduce newinformation technology transmission, improve production facilities of infrastructure projects designedto boost work andmanagement.Inaddition,anumber providing advice andtraining onproduction work withSIBCmanagementandstaff, project enables two ABCstaff members to Mission to theSolomon Islands(RAMSI).The in association withtheRegionalAssistance (SIBC) Capacity-BuildingInitiative was devised The Solomon IslandsBroadcasting Corporation editorial guidelineswasdelivered. the development ofcorporate planningand NBC’s archive began,andassistance with and putto airbyNBC.Thedigitisationof aimed atdevelopment issues, were produced a socialhistory program andaserialdrama Corporation (NBC)ofPNG.Two newprograms, assistance to theNationalBroadcasting conjunction withRadioAustralia, provided Initiative PhaseI,designedanddelivered in The Papua NewGuineaMediaDevelopment Capacity-Building Initiative. Islands Broadcasting Corporation Development Initiative andtheSolomon the year: thePapua NewGuineaMedia two majorAusAID-fundedprojects during various donors, theABCcontinued to deliver in Vietnam,Malaysia,andFijifundedby In additionto smaller-scale training activities development projects. region through various training and with publicbroadcasters intheAsiaPacific The ABCcontinued to strengthen ties Broadcasters intheRegion Supporting Public continued 103

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ABC Distribution and Transmission Network Aggregated 2005–06 Performance as Reported by Broadcast Australia

ABC Broadcast Australia Distribution Transmission Total Network Total “On-Air” No. of Network Network Availability Availability ABC Service Transmitters (See Note 1) (See Note 2) (See Note 3) (See Note 4) 2005 2004 2005 2004 2005 2004 2005 2004 –06 –05 Target –06 –05 –06 –05 –06 –05 %%%%%%%%% ABC Classic FM 67 99.98 99.90 99.83 99.89 99.92 99.21 99.46 99.88 99.84 triple j 57 99.91 99.98 99.82 99.88 99.91 99.27 99.56 99.72 99.83 Local Radio 241 99.67 99.71 99.79 99.71 99.87 98.18 99.40 99.21 99.63 ABC NewsRadio 13 99.99 99.84 99.89 99.87 99.94 98.86 99.23 99.69 99.90 Radio National 257 99.97 99.97 99.74 99.74 99.85 99.56 99.64 99.65 99.72 Analog Television 440 99.97 99.91 99.75 99.77 99.83 99.16 99.25 99.72 99.77 Digital Television 173 99.85 99.91 99.79 99.83 99.84 98.37 99.31 98.95 99.15 State NSW 253 99.95 99.84 99.80 99.83 99.85 98.91 99.37 99.80 99.71 NT 54 99.73 99.94 99.71 99.65 99.71 97.58 99.36 98.14 99.66 QLD 310 99.90 99.98 99.76 99.68 99.86 99.32 99.65 99.59 99.65 SA 76 99.96 99.89 99.79 99.84 99.90 99.48 99.23 99.76 99.83 TAS 83 99.91 99.95 99.81 99.73 99.83 98.58 99.22 99.59 99.68 VIC 120 99.97 99.92 99.82 99.84 99.85 99.08 99.21 99.85 99.83 WA 179 99.93 99.91 99.75 99.86 99.82 99.93 99.57 99.72 99.82

ABC Notes 1. ABC Distribution Network (included contracted service providers): The ABC distribution network ensures that programs are delivered from the studio to local transmitters throughout Australia. It includes outsourced satellite and terrestrial broadcast distribution services from telecommunications carriers such as Optus and Telstra. This measure has been designed to be consistent with the contracted transmission targets and represents the aggregated performance of more than 60 agreements the ABC has in place to distribute programs. The ABC’s overall performance in this area improved in 2005–06 relative to 2004–05. The failure of the Optus satellite distribution service affected the performance of triple j and digital television. Note: Local Radio, which serves remote and regional Australia, is reliant on non-redundant Telstra broadcast lines. These performed below expectation due to an increase in the time taken to repair a small number of lines failures to remote sites in 2005–06. 2. Broadcast Australia Transmission Network (ABC Transmission Contractor): The reported transmission network performance, provided by Broadcast Australia, was close to the targets in most cases, but declined in 2005–06 relative to 2004–05. Performance of the Local Radio network and the services in the Northern Territory, Queensland, and Tasmania were below their targets. The installation of new digital television services and the introduction of improved monitoring equipment at transmission sites throughout the year resulted in the disruption of existing transmission services. Cyclones in Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia and commercial power and stand-by power system failures adversely affected the reported network performance. The new digital television services performed above the target, but below expectation, declining relative to 2004–05. Broadcast Australia have included the performance of services that were subject to unexpected interference issues that were not anticipated during the planning and construction phases of a number of the new services this year. 3. Total Network Availability shows the impact of all outages of the overall network. It reflects the delivered service availability to the audience, regardless of the source of the fault or interruption. In practice, during the majority of reported outages, a reduced level of service continued to be provided. This accounts for the difference between the contracted and overall network performance. Overall, these statistics show the delivery of services to ABC analog network audiences in 2005–06 declined relative to 2004–05. Except for South Australia and Western Australia, all networks and states performed below expectation. Digital television services’ performance remained well below expectation, due in part to resolution of post-commissioning adjustments to a large number of the new services. Three new digital television services in Victoria were switched off due to interference, affecting overall performance. The data does not include all instances where Broadcast Australia operated services below minimum performance levels. The ABC is endeavouring to monitor and rectify such services. 4. Total “On-Air” Availability shows the direct impact of all outages experienced by the audience, where some level of service continued to be provided throughout faults and maintenance. That is, where there was no total loss or denial of service to the majority of the audience. In 2005–06, Broadcast Australia reported an overall increase in the total period services were “off”, in comparison to 2004–05. Reported digital television performance deteriorated in comparison to the previous year. The Northern Territory was affected by the loss of the three inland High Frequency (HF) Vertical Incidence Local Radio services that were switched off for long periods to facilitate the installation of new transmitters for these services. A temporary replacement service was provided from the Broadcast Australia HF transmission facility at Shepparton in Victoria during most daylight hours over this period. 105

Acting Director of Gary Dawson Corporate Strategy and Communications Gary Dawson has been Acting Director of Corporate Strategy and Communications since March 2006 and is the Head of Strategy and Development for the Division. Prior to joining the ABC in May 2005, Gary was the Communications Director of The Law Society of New South Wales and previously spent five years as a senior advisor in the Prime Minister’s Office, including two years as senior policy adviser on communications, information technology, science and innovation. Earlier in his career, Gary worked as a journalist for 15 years in print, radio and television, including with ABC radio and television news in Townsville and Canberra. Gary holds a Bachelor of Economics Degree from the Australian National University.

Corporate Strategy and Communications

The Corporate Strategy and Communications subscribed to a range of audience Division provides a range of Corporation-wide measurement data and commissioned support functions in relation to corporate research to help measure its audiences; policy, strategy and governance, and the inform programming, scheduling and ABC’s position and influence in the internal marketing decisions; and gauge audience and external environment. attitudes to the Corporation’s services.

Audience and Consumer Affairs Information on the ABC’s audiences in 2005–06 Audience and Consumer Affairs’ key role is to can be found in ABC Audiences (page 28). ensure that program complaints are handled in accordance with the guidelines set out in Bonner Committee the ABC Editorial Policies and in particular, The Bonner Committee was established to to independently investigate complaints that play an active role in enhancing and promoting relate to issues covered by the ABC’s Code of Indigenous issues within the ABC through Practice. The ABC’s Code of Practice outlines a range of measures, including employment, a range of program standards against which training, career development and “specialist 05–06 the ABC can be publicly judged. The unit also staffing” of Indigenous content areas and/or responds to a large number of programming programs. The Committee’s Executive reports and policy enquiries. to the Director of Corporate Strategy and Communications on a bimonthly basis. Further details about the nature and subject of contacts received by Audience In 2005–06, the Committee undertook a range and Consumer Affairs can be found in of activities, including: collaborating with Corporate Governance (page 57). ABC Television to establish the definition of a “true” Indigenous production or program as Audience Research one in which a minimum of two of three of Corporate Strategy and Communications the key creative principals (producer, director ANNUAL REPORT 20 manages Audience Research on behalf or writer) are Indigenous Australians; of the Corporation. In 2005–06, the ABC coordinating the first Indigenous Programs 106

Corporate Strategy and Communications continued Launch on 28 April 2006 for the ABC’s Ultimo Centre in Sydney. Volunteer guides specialist Indigenous programs across ABC were recruited and trained during June and Radio, Television and Online; developing July 2005, with the first tours beginning in Indigenous marketing material, including mid-August. Since then, an estimated 3 290 an Indigenous broadcasting logo; and setting people have taken the tour, made up of out a two-year Mission Statement outlining primary and secondary school groups, the objectives and goals of the Committee. community groups and overseas delegations. Corporate Marketing provided cross-divisional Corporate Marketing marketing support for Radio’s podcasting The Corporate Marketing unit manages the service, the 10th Anniversary celebrations ABC brand, its partnerships, cross promotions, of ABC Online and celebrations marking ABC community events and cross-divisional Television’s 50th Year. Partnerships were marketing needs. established with the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and Melbourne’s Australian Centre In 2005–06, the unit focused on reaching new for the Moving Image, both of which launched audiences with a broad range of community exhibitions marking 50 years of television. activities and a corporate cinema campaign in Sydney. ABC exhibitions continued in the foyer of the Ultimo Centre with displays featuring The travelling Exhibition Trailer continued Television’s Peking to Paris series and to provide the main focal point for the Playschool. Through Australian Eyes, the Corporation’s community presence. It ABC’s retrospective look at more than 70 appeared at all major State agricultural years of ABC foreign reporting finished its shows, as well as completing regional tours year-long exhibition in Old Parliament House of Queensland and Western Australia. The in Canberra. The exhibition has now moved Trailer also supported the 60th birthday to Wagga Wagga. celebration of Radio’s The Country Hour and the 40th Anniversary Playschool Tour of Corporate Media remote communities. During the year, the and Communications Trailer attended 21 events across all states The Corporate Media and Communications and territories and was open to the public on unit manages the ABC’s media relations 72 days. In late May, it supported the ABC’s and all matters that relate to corporate “Just Larried” Concert in Innisfail, hosted by communications, including the ABC Intranet, ABC Local Radio in the wake of Cyclone Larry, the ABC Corporate website About the ABC and also supported Gardening Australia Live and all major policy announcements and in both New South Wales and Victoria. platform launches. The unit publishes the external newsletter Inside the ABC and the During the summer period, a corporate internal newsletter, abcXchange. cinema advertisement was scheduled in the Sydney market aimed at infrequent ABC Corporate Media and Communications viewers and listeners, promoting the message managed the public release of a number of that the ABC was “Part of Everyday Life”. significant ABC documents and statements during 2005–06. These included the release Early in the year the Corporation extended of Newspoll’s ABC Appreciation Survey 2005 its community involvement with the launch in August and the public summary of the of a Public Tours Program for the ABC ABC’s Triennial Funding Submission 2006–09 major review ofthe Efficiency Review. Unit staff coordinated a conduct theABCFunding Adequacyand Information Technology andtheArtsto by theDepartmentofCommunications, the external consultants from KPMGemployed It alsomanagedtheABC’s relationship with Triennial FundingSubmission Officer inthepreparation ofthe Corporation’s Managing Director andtheChiefOperating In 2005–06,theunitworked closely withthe in majorcorporate projects. external submissions, andparticipates work, produces the coordinates corporate planningandpolicy it provides industry andpolicyanalysis, governance oftheCorporation. Specifically, advice relating to thepositioning,policyand Board withstrategic support,analysis and provides corporate managementandthe The Corporate PlanningandGovernance unit and Governance Corporate Planning access to information aboutthe Corporation. contemporary look while providing easier About theABC During 2005–06,theABCCorporate website Federal Budgetoutcome. the ABC’s publicresponse to the2006–07 in early 2006.InMay,theunitcoordinated of thedevelopment ofa10-year Integrated contributed significantly to thefirst phases for the The ABCExhibitionTraileratHermannsburg,NT Play School was redesigned to give itamore 40th Birthdaytour ABC EditorialPolicies Annual Report for 2006–09. and , Corporation (SABC). and theSouthAfrican Broadcasting (RNZ), RadioTelevision HongKong(RTHK) Hoso Kyokai (NHK),RadioNewZealand Telecommunications Union(ITU),Nippon Committee (IRAC) andtheInternational International Radiocommunications Advisory (CBA), European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD), Broadcasting Union(ABU),Asia-Pacific around theworld,namely the:Asia-Pacific broadcasters andbroadcasting associations The ABChasclose contact withpublic International Relations material willberetained asnationalarchives. makers to helpthemdecidewhataudiovisual a tool thatwillbeusedextensively byprogram supporting audiovisual Sentencing Guidelines, accompanied bythejointsigningof Authority (RDA) to theABC.Thiswas handed over thenewRecords Disposal National Archives ofAustralia signedand was achieved on6June2006,whenthe (DIRKS) methodology. Asignificant milestone Implementing Record KeepingSystems to coordinate workontheDesigningand Throughout theyear, theunitcontinued Parliamentary and/orregulatory reviews. to arange ofsubmissions to Government, Capital Strategy, andprepared orcontributed 107

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Corporate Strategy and Communications continued Flowing from the ABC’s Charter as a public On a day-to-day basis, the unit provides advice service broadcaster, the Corporation has to other ABC Divisions on dealing with the a number of aims in its interactions with Government, Government Departments and these organisations: Parliamentarians, responds to departmental • to contribute to the “health” of public requests for information and liaises with broadcasting internationally; Ministerial offices, media companies and • to demonstrate good corporate citizenship industry groups on issues as they arise. by supporting the need for expertise by less-developed broadcasters in the The most significant area of work in 2005–06 region; and involved devising and implementing a strategy • to influence the policy debate on matters for the presentation and advancement of relevant to the ABC, by being part of the ABC’s Triennial Funding submission to Planning and Strategy groups and by Government. This encompassed advice on having input into the regulation of global the preparation of the Submission around technical standards via international key policy themes; advice on the timing of bodies such as the IRAC and the ITU. public release of a summary of the submission; advancing the ABC’s case with departmental Participation in international discussions officials, Parliamentarians and Ministers; about public broadcasting is compatible input into the Funding Adequacy and with the values and principles expressed Efficiency Review and handling of the ABC’s in the ABC’s Charter. It also helps to shape Budget response. current thinking on public broadcasting and its regulations. The Strategy and Development unit also provided advice on preparation and advocacy In June 2006, the Committee on Review of in support of the ABC’s bid for a renewal of the Public Service Broadcasting in Hong Kong, contract for the Asia Pacific Television service, called upon the ABC to provide guidance and funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs. input into a range of broadcasting issues on the future of public service broadcasting, The Government’s media reform agenda and including Radio Television Hong Kong. The opportunities for the ABC resulting from Government of the Special Administrative regulatory changes involving digital television Region of Hong Kong initiated the Review, and media ownership was also an area of which commenced in January 2006. activity for the unit. This involved liaison with other media companies and industry groups, During 2005–06, the ABC welcomed to its as well as advocacy and liaison with the premises in Australia delegations from Minister’s office on the role the ABC can around the world, benefiting from an exchange play in the new media environment. of ideas and debate. The ABC appeared before the Senate Estimates Strategy and Development Committee three times during the year, in The Strategy and Development unit includes October 2005, February 2006 and May 2006. government and parliamentary relations and It provided answers to 355 Senate Estimates has responsibility for liaison with the Federal Questions on Notice over the year, across a Government and Parliament, Parliamentary broad range of subject areas. The Manager committees, Commonwealth Departments, Parliamentary Relations co-ordinated the major media companies and industry groups. preparation and lodging of answers to these Questions on Notice. local cross-divisional initiatives for ABC2. leadership role inencouraging andsupporting (FOI) reviews. TheDirectors alsoplayed a conducted internal Freedom ofInformation of theComplaintsReview Executive and National Broadcasting, performed theduties the Role andAdequacyof Government Funded Parliamentary Select Committee Inquiryinto ABC contribution to theSouthAustralian Adequacy andEfficiencyReview, managedthe election coverage, contributed to theFunding 2005. Directors oversaw local andFederal opened bythePrimeMinister inSeptember of thenewPerth ABCcomplex, whichwas upgrades inSouthAustralia andthecompletion newsroom, radio studio andeditbooth projects, includingcollocation oftheDarwin a key role insignificant local infrastructure thinking andplanningoftheABC.They play and t significant role incontributing astate showcase theABC.TheDirectors playa major community events designedto The State andTerritory Directors coordinated Territory andQueensland. cyclones inWestern Australia, theNorthern Victoria andSouthAustralia, andduring better served duringmajorbushfires in agencies resulted incommunities being maintaining partnerships with emergency The State andTerritory Directors’ workin ABC’s history inthere-opened Press Gallery. House inCanberra andthedisplayof included apartnership withOldParliament Relationships withexternal stakeholders needs to inform ABCprograms andpriorities. and monitoring community interests and stakeholders, providing feedback to theABC and maintain relationships withexternal divisional managers. State Directors establish of theABCandled State Executives of worked to enhance community appreciation ABC’s business. In2005–06,theDirectors geographical andoperational breadth ofthe The State andTerritory Directors reflect the State andTerritory Directors erritory perspective to thestrategic and overseeing governance atalocal level. as breast cancer concerns inBrisbane, occupational healthandsafety issues, such management, transmission, monitoring local areas ofbusiness continuity planning,risk included aparticularemphasisonthe also oversee operations. In2005–06,this teams, theState andTerritory Directors As wellasleading local management of court andthenew uniform defamation laws. Corporation, covering topics suchascontempt workshops for program makers withinthe a seriesofspecialist in-housemedialaw exposure to legal proceedings bydelivering which isaimedatminimisingtheABC’s continued itsmedialawtraining program, Consistent withprevious years, theDepartment measures andtheiroutcomes. and review oftechnological protection on theInternet andancillaryprivacy issues, in thedigital age,unauthorisedphotographs 2005, fair useand othercopyright exceptions on matters includingtheAnti-Terrorism Bill ABC EditorialPolicies agreements; participated inthereview ofthe by theABC;renegotiated blanket rights applications to restrain broadcasts proposed During 2005–06,LegalServices resisted and State government bodiesaboutlawreform. developing submissions to Commonwealth statutory obligationsofalldivisions;and rights issues, regulatory regimes andthe providing detailed advice oncontractual and litigation commenced against theCorporation; Australia-wide basisto alldivisions;conducting including pre-publication advice ona24-hour, range oflegal supportto theCorporation, ABC LegalServices provides acomprehensive Legal Services ; formulated submissions 109

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