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6227 SIQ 23 Vol 8 No2 July 04 The Sydney Institute Quarterly Issue 23, Vol. 8, No. 2, July, 2004 FORTHCOMING FUNCTIONS AT THE SYDNEY INSTITUTE PLEASE NOTE IT IS ESSENTIAL TO RSVP FOR FUNCTIONS and that BOOKINGS SHOULD BE MADE 2 WEEKS IN ADVANCE, NO EARLIER Thank you for your cooperation! SPEAKER: THE HON. SIMON CREAN MP (Shadow Treasurer) TOPIC: Prosperity with a Purpose DATE: Monday 26 July 2004 **Bookings from 12 July only** TIME: 5.30 for 6.00pm VENUE: BT Training Room (Room 401), Level 4, Chifley Tower, 2 Chifley Square, Sydney SPEAKER: HELEN TRINCA (co-author, Better than Sex [Random] & Editor, AFR’s magazine Boss) & CATHERINE FOX (co-author Better than Sex & Deputy Editor, Boss) TOPIC: Better than Sex? - A Generation Hooked on Work DATE: Wednesday 28 July 2004 **Bookings from 14 July only** TIME: 5.30 for 6.00pm VENUE: Clayton Utz Seminar Room (Level 30), 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney SPEAKER: GREG COMBET (Secretary, ACTU) TOPIC: The ACTU and Labor DATE: Wednesday 4 August 2004 **Bookings from 21 July only** TIME: 5.30 for 6.00pm VENUE: Mallesons Conference Room (Level 60) Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney SPEAKER: MARGO KINGSTON (Political Commentator for The Sydney Morning Herald online, Editor of Webdiary and author of Not Happy, John: Defending our democracy [Penguin, 2004]) TOPIC: Not Happy, John: Reflections of a Web Diarist DATE: Tuesday 10 August 2004 **Bookings from 27 July only** TIME: 5.30 FOR 6pm VENUE: Museum of Sydney Theatrette, Corner Phillip & Bridge St, Sydney SPEAKER: THE HON. NICK GREINER (Chairman ASTRA - Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association) TOPIC: Australia’s Future Media: A Pay TV Perspective DATE: Monday 16 August 2004 **Bookings from 2 August only** TIME: 5.30 for 6pm VENUE: Dixson Room, State Library of New South Wales, Macquarie Street, Sydney SPEAKER: ANN MILLAR (Editor, The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate Vol 2: 1929-1962 ) TOPIC: The Australian Senate: From the Depression to the Cold War DATE: Monday 6 September 2004 **Bookings from 23 August only** TIME: 5.30 for 6.00pm VENUE: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney NOTE CHANGE OF DATE SPEAKER: THE HON. TONY ABBOTT MP (Minister for Health & Ageing, Leader of the House of Representatives) TOPIC: to be advised DATE: Wednesday 15 Sept 2004 **Bookings from 1 Sept only** TIME: 5.30 for 6.00pm VENUE: Mallesons Conference Room (Level 60) Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney SPEAKER: DR. JULIA BAIRD (Journalist, Author Media Tarts [Scribe, 2004]) TOPIC: Media Tarts: How the Australian Press Frames Female Politicians DATE: Tuesday 21 September 2004 **Bookings from 7 Sept only** TIME: 5.30 for 6pm VENUE: Clayton Utz Seminar Room (Level 30), 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney. SPEAKER: DENNIS RICHARDSON AO (Director General, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation [ASIO]) DATE: Wednesday 29 September 2004 **Bookings from 15 September only** TIME: 5.30 for 6.00pm VENUE: Dixson Room, State Library of New South Wales, Macquarie Street, Sydney FREE TO ASSOCIATES & ASSOCIATES’ PARTNERS / $5 STUDENTS / $10 OTHERS RSVP - PH: (02) 9252 3366 OR FAX: (02) 9252 3360 OR EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.thesydneyinstitute.com.au <http://www.thesydneyinstitute.com.au/> ISSUE 23, VOL. 8 NO. 2, JULY 2004 The ABC and the Federal Government ANN CAPLING looks at multilateral V bilateral trade STEPHEN MATCHETT looks at Howard-haters ANNE HENDERSON at an asylum seekers’ “out of detention” party ANTHONY CAPPELLO examines the Italian left Down Under JOHN KUNKEL on who initiated the Australia-US Alliance MEDIA WATCH tackles Oscar Humphries (again), Helen Garner, Alan Ramsey (again), Margaret Simons & Phillip Adams (again) Published by The Sydney Institute 41 Phillip St. with Gerard Henderson’s Sydney 2000 Ph: (02) 9252 3366 MEDIA WATCH Fax: (02) 9252 3360 The Sydney Institute Quarterly Issue 23, Vol. 8, No. 2, July, 2004 CONTENTS ABC + D – FOR DYSFUNCTIONAL Editorial 2 ABC managing director Russell Balding maintains that The ABC and the the ABC Board is not dysfunctional. Strange, then, that Maurice Newman – one of Australia’s most influential and Howard Government respected business leaders – felt the need to resign from the ABC Board. In a letter to Communications Minister - Gerard Henderson 3 Daryl Williams dated 28 May 2004, Mr Newman wrote that he had “taken this decision” because he could “no The Australian-American Alliance: longer be assured that accepted governance standards History and (Labor) Myth will be observed on the Board”. Maurice Newman referred to “the recent gross breach of [ABC] boardroom - John Kunkel 10 confidentiality on the issue of independent monitoring of ABC broadcasts”. He also mentioned the inability of his Australia - Out of Detention fellow Board members to secure the agreement of the Staff Elected Director [Ramona Koval] to the Board’s - Anne Henderson 14 governance protocols. Mr Newman indicated that this “leaves open the potential for further leaking of Why the Italian Left Lost the boardroom deliberations and papers” which “will War in Australia seriously undermine trust and respect among directors and the capacity of the Board to function effectively”. - Anthony Cappello 17 Sounds dysfunctional? Sure does. The USA, Japan and Trade The story so far. At the March 2004 ABC Board meeting, a letter from Maurice Newman to the ABC chairman Donald - Ann Capling 18 McDonald was tabled. The former recommended to the latter that an independent media monitoring organisation Book Reviews should be commissioned to carry out a review of bias at the ABC. The issue was discussed at the April 2004 meeting. - John McConnell 20 Subsequently, the ABC managing director engaged Rehame to monitor the ABC’s political coverage from Review of the Reviewers Budget day until the Federal election. This seemed a - Stephen Matchett 23 harmless suggestion. But it angered the Staff Elected Director - so much so that she wrote an angry email to Editorialising Iraq Donald McDonald on 6 May. This correspondence was leaked to the ABC TV Media Watch program where the - Stephen Matchett 31 proposal was bagged by presenter David Marr on 17 May. In the process, Mr Marr pontificated: “There’s no systemic Gerard Henderson’s political bias on the ABC”. So there. Media Watch 33 Interviewed by Tanya Nolan on the ABC Radio PM program on 17 June 2004, Ramona Koval was asked about the leak. The official ABC transcript reads as follows - TN: Who do you think leaked that letter on the ABC’s independent monitoring to Media Watch? (Silence) …I take it that you can’t discuss it, or you won’t discuss it? Cover Design by D T Graphics RK: Um, well I don’t think it’s right for me to accuse any The Sydney Institute Quarterly is edited by of my fellow Board directors. Um. TN: So do you know… Anne Henderson and Gerard Henderson. where it came from? RK: (After silence) Well, why don’t you ask Media Watch? TN: Well, because you’ve been Editorial Office: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 accused of leaking that letter. RK: I’ve just explained to Tel: (02) 9252 3366 Fax: (02) 9252 3360 you that I have not done anything that is improper. I have Email: [email protected] always acted within my legal obligations. TN: But you haven’t directly answered whether or not you were the Website: www.thesydneyinstitute.com.au one. RK: That is my answer. Layout and typesetting by DT Graphics Pty Ltd, And a manifestly inadequate answer at that. Ms Koval 202A Lyons Road, Drummoyne 2047. refused to deny that she had leaked her own email to Tel: (02) 9719 1424 Fax: (02) 9719 1415 Media Watch and she has refused to abide by the Board’s Website: www.dtgraphics.com.au governance protocols which cover, inter alia, the The views expressed in The Sydney Institute Quarterly are confidentiality of Board decisions. In summary, the ABC those of the designated authors. They do not necessarily Board has lost an able director. The Staff Elected Director reflect the views of The Sydney Institute or of its governors. refuses to abide by the Board’s governance protocols. Meanwhile, Board discussions have been leaked to the Registered Print Post No : PP255003/02934 ABC’s very own Media Watch. Yet Russell Balding For a complete list of our forthcoming functions, believes that the ABC Board, as currently constructed, is visit our Website: www.thesydneyinstitute.com.au not dysfunctional. It’s called denial. Editorial 2 The Sydney Institute Quarterly Issue 23, Vol. 8, No. 2, July, 2004 some time after the official opening, that this was, in part at least, a shrine to the left-wing interpretation of THE ABC – Australian history. Then the Howard government created the Australian Strategic Policy Institute AND THE (ASPI) – only to find that, more often that not, it has provided a platform for critics of the Coalition’s defence and foreign policies. John Howard HOWARD appointed David Flint as chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Authority in 1997. Professor Flint GOVERNMENT mishandled the position and stepped down some four months before his term was due to expire – not long after the Prime Minister criticised Flint for not Gerard Henderson disclosing letters which he had written to broadcaster Alan Jones which were capable of raising a conflict-of-interest issue. And then there is the alk about an over-statement. In the Power 2003 (continuing) saga of the ABC. It epitomises the T survey (published in the October 2003 issue of The failure of the Howard government in the culture Australian Financial Review Magazine), journalist wars, so far at least – and demonstrates that Andrew Clark declared that “Prime Minister John intellectual battles are not won merely by placing Howard commands all he surveys”. This overlooked the men and women deemed to have conservative views fact that John Howard does not control the Senate (where in chairman or board positions.
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