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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> James Donald [mailto:j.donald@unsw.edu.au]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, 27 May 2005 11:17 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Recipient list
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<DIV align=center><FONT color=#808080 size=2>UNSW Media, Film and Theatre
Seminars<BR>5 p.m. Wednesday 1 June 2005<BR>Webster Building
327<BR><BR><BR><BR></FONT>
<H1><FONT color=#008000 size=6><B>From the Murrumbidgee to Mamma
Lena<BR></FONT><FONT color=#008000 size=4>Foreign-language broadcasting on
Australian commercial radio</FONT> </B></H1><FONT color=#0000ff size=7>Bridget
Griffen-Foley <BR><BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<H3><FONT color=#808080>From the 1950s to the 1970s, before the introduction of
ethnic community radio, what 'foreign-language' programs did Australian
commercial radio offer? What was the regulatory environment in which these
programs emerged, and why was the response of the Australian Broadcasting
Control Board so cautious? Why was the issue of foreign-language
advertising particularly contentious?<BR><BR>Starting from the discovery that
foreign-language broadcasting on Australian commercial radio was much more
extensive than has hitherto been acknowledged, this paper looks at the impetus
behind business and community leaders from European migrant groups lobbying for
the introduction of foreign-language programs, the spread of these programs to
cities and country towns across Australia, and the responses of first- and
second-generation immigrants. It explores the links between
'foreign-language' broadcasting and immigration policies and considers how the
programs came to be enthusiastically embraced by many politicians in their
pursuit of assimilation and, in time, migrant votes. The paper concludes
by examining the decline of foreign-language programming on Australian
commercial radio in the years immediately preceding the introduction of
community radio.<BR><BR></FONT><FONT color=#808080 size=2>Bridget Griffen-Foley
is an ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow in the Departments of Modern History and
Politics at Macquarie University, and a visiting fellow in the History Program
at the ANU. Her most recent book is Party Games: Australian Politicians and the
Media from War to Dismissal (2003), and she is now writing a history of
commercial radio in Australia. <BR><BR></FONT></H3><X-SIGSEP>
<P></X-SIGSEP>__<FONT color=#808080
size=1>_______________________________________________<BR>Dr James
Donald<BR>Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Social
Sciences<BR>Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and
Theatre<BR>University of New South Wales<BR>Sydney<BR>NSW
2052<BR>Australia<BR><BR>Telephone:
<X-TAB> </X-TAB>(02) 9385
4858<BR>Mobile:
<X-TAB> </X-TAB>0433
126445<BR>Facsimile:<X-TAB> </X-TAB>(02) 9662
2335<BR><BR>International<BR>Telephone:
<X-TAB> </X-TAB>+612 9385
4858<BR>Mobile:
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126445<BR>Facsimile:<X-TAB> </X-TAB>+612 9662
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