Autumn/WinterSummer/Autumn 2016 2015 Edition Edition – Journal – Journal of the of the National National Ethnic Ethnic & Multicultural & Multicultural Broadcasters’ Broadcasters’ Council Council The National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters’ Council (NEMBC) is a national peak body that advocates for ethnic community broadcasting: promoting multiculturalism, addressing racism and contributing to media diversity. Contents NEMBC Executive Committee President’s Pen ............................................. 1 President: Tangi Steen SA Treasurer: Joe De Luca NT Why Australia Needs a Multicultural Act . 2 Secretary: Luigi Romanelli TAS Australia’s Multicultural Story ................. 3 Nick Dmyterko QLD Cristina Descalzi SA Back Towards a Balanced Language Policy 4 Osai Faiva NSW George Salloum VIC Diversity in the Media .................................. 6 Irene Tavutavu QLD Curtis Ho TAS The Role of the Media in Citizenship .......... 7 Werner Albrecht ACT Manuel Rodrigues WA New Media in Perspective ............................ 8 Abdul Ghannoum NSW Effects of New Media .................................... 9 NEMBC Staff How to Ditch Internalised Racism Executive and Policy Officer: Russell Anderson and Imposter Syndrome ............................ 10 Operations Officer: Fiv Antoniou Project Officer: Tara Egan Public Hysteria Not the Answer ................ 12 Administration Officer: Sarita Yadav Bookkeeper: Rod Borlase Racism. It Stops With Me Campaign ....... 13 The Ethnic Broadcaster Everyday Racism App ................................ 14 Chief Editor and Design: Russell Anderson Conference Report 2015 ............................ 15 Graphic Design: Baz Vidhyapathy Editorial Team: Fiv Antoniou, Tara Egan, Sarita Yadav Conference Photos 2015 .................................. 18 Journal Printers: Highlight Printing 2015 Youth Media Conference Report .......... 20 NEMBC Contact Details Youth Conference Photos 2015 ...................... 21 PO Box 1144 2015 NEMBC Broadcasting Winners ............ 22 Collingwood VIC 3066 2016 NEMBC Broadcasting Awards .............. 23 Phone: 03 9486 9549 Fax: 03 9486 9547 AROUND THE STATIONS Email: [email protected] Radio Adeliade Station Relocation ................. 24 Website: www.nembc.org.au 2MFM’s Media Campaign ................................ 25 The Ethnic Broadcaster is the Journal of the National 3ZZZ New Studios Open for Broadcast ...... 26 Ethnic & Multicultural Broadcasters’ Council (NEMBC). The views expressed in The Ethnic Broadcaster are not 2SER’s Ethnic Programs Ceased / necessarily the views of the NEMBC. Tamil Broadcasting Group on 97.1FM ........... 27 29th Australian Sikh Games Brisbane 2016 . 28 We welcome contributions to The Ethnic Broadcaster, Polyfonix 2016 AFL Season Coverage ............ 29 especially from NEMBC Members. WOW FM’s Christmas Give-Away! .............. 30 CBF Grant News................................................. 31 Tony Manicaros Grant ....................................... 32 Front and Back Cover Photo: From the 2015 NEMBC Membership Form ............................. 33 NEMBC National Conference in Melbourne showing support for the Human Rights Commission’s ‘Racism It Stops With Me’ campagin. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nations as the traditional owners of the land on which The Ethnic Broadcaster is edited and printed, and pay our respects to their Elders both past and present. ii - The Ethnic Broadcaster - Autumn 2016 President’s Pen Maloo e lelei (Greetings in Tongan) Welcome to this edition of the We acknowledged the Federation of Ethnic Community Broadcasters Ethnic Broadcaster! (FECCA) 2015 Conference and It has been a challenging year for the NEMBC and I congratulate the organisers on a think it will continue to be the case in the future. The dynamic conference that showcased main concern of course is the change to the existing the strength of multiculturalism. In Community Broadcasting Foundations structural and this edition we have run a number of governance model, in particular, the lack of details of articles from the FECCA conference. the cost implications of the new model in relation to the The full conference proceedings is an operational and actual costs to full-time ethnic stations invaluable source of information and and ethnic broadcasters. Despite a request from the 2015 can be downloaded from the FECCA website. NEMBC AGM for CBF to provide these details, to date, it The planning for the 2016 NEMBC Conference and Youth has fallen on deaf ears! Logic tells me that with every new Media Conference is underway and will be in Sydney at business model, an accompanying cost analysis is provided, the end of November. The host station Radio 2000 FM so as a transparent process of the transitional changes together with the NEMBC Secretariat are seeking funds from the old to the new is documented and clearly from the state government of NSW as well as from other articulated. bodies to help run the two conferences. A review of the The CBF is moving ahead to change the constitution and NEMBC awards category has been proposed in order have a completely new board by July 2016. New guidelines to encourage more applicants from a range of different will be established by the end of the year with a new programs, see inside this edition for some new categories. grant round starting next year. There is no guarantee The NEMBC is working on a special ‘History of Ethnic that full-time ethnic stations will not lose funding so we Community Broadcasting’ magazine and is seeking your imagine they will, but we don’t know how much. How are input. Please see our website for an ‘Exposure Draft’ and regional stations and broadcasters going to be supported? if your station or radio program has not been included in Some interim guidelines were provided but we have no the edition than please contact us with the story of how idea about the final guidelines which will be more onerous ethnic community broadcasting started at your station. and complicated for ethnic community broadcasters. The From Around the Stations we hear from 3ZZZ on their NEMBC is still concerned at the potential effects this will new premises and an innovative AFL program, 2MFM’s have on ethnic community broadcasting. Award winning media campaign, 3MDR’s Tamil program, We are pleased to see the ‘Racism It Stops With 2SER losing programs, WOW FM’s Xmas give-aways and Me’ Campaign is continuing into its fourth year. The EB’s involvement with the Sikh Games - All that reading NEMBC is a supporter of the Australian Human Rights and much more, in this edition of EB. Commission campaign and we are pleased to be able to Thanks to the editorial team for the rich resources in this show our support on the front cover of this edition. In journal. Enjoy! the coming years the Commission will focus on a number of areas including media and we look forward to explore Maloo ‘aupito (Thanks in Tongan) ways to work in that area. Dr. Tangi Steen NEMBC President The NEMBC 2016 conference will be in Sydney at the end of November. Please check the website for venue and dates. National Conference Sydney 2016 Identity and Representation The Ethnic Broadcaster Autumn 2016 - 1 Why Australia Needs a Multicultural Act When Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm So, from an apogee of prominence in 1989 it dropped Turnbull in early November opened a speech (in the wake of the Blainey affair and the xenophobia justifying increased penalties for ever-younger occasioned by Hanson) to a perigee of denial by 1997. potential jihadis through celebrating Australian Multiculturalism only resurfaced as a significant issue multiculturalism, he made two rather profound when in 2014 Attorney General, Brandis sought to statements. For the first time since Bob implement the IPA proposal by removing section 18C of Hawke an Australian Prime Minister centred the Racial Discrimination Act and unintentionally managed multiculturalism as a potential strength in building to galvanise a dormant coalition of opponents - Chinese, national security however in the same breath Jews, Indigenous, Greek, and non-Muslim Arab leaders, he demonstrated that it had failed, as punitive came together in defence of this one area of legislated sanctions were required because by implication, civility in the entire Commonwealth pantheon. multiculturalism had not been successful. I argue that the key reason for multiculturalism not providing “the cement for all Australians” that Prime Minister Howard had derided in 1988, lies in the refusal of successive federal governments since Hawke to legislate for its public application. Unlike the major States that have had no problem with multicultural legislation, the Commonwealth has surrendered the territory that effective multicultural policy should occupy, by pre- emptive buckling to nativist right-wing populists and more recently, to jihadist ideologues with no interest in Australia. Prof Andrew Jakubowicz speaking at the FECCA Conference Therefore surveillance, stripping of citizenship, trace bracelets and close policing are ever more necessary What may we then conclude from the research evidence because the government has never wanted to include that underpins this narrative? the full diversity of Australia’s population in the national Australians in general like the idea of a culturally narrative. Today, we pay the consequence of that failure diverse society – Not surprisingly given Australia’s high in threats of hostile violence and thousands of alienated proportion of migrants and their