Footnotes
ABC Online Inquiry
[1] Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, Submission 7, p 11.
[2] Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, Submission 7, p 11.
[3] Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, Submission 7, p 12-15.
[4] Hansard,
Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
Committee, Additional Estimates, 11 February 2000, p 202.
[5] Hansard,
Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
Committee, Additional Estimates, 11 February 2000, p 201.
[6] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 2.
[7] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 2
[8] Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, Submission 7, p 13.
[9] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 16.
[10] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 7.
[11] Hansard,
Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
Committee, Additional Estimates, 10 February 2000, p 106.
[12] Answers
to Questions on Notice, Document provided by ABC.
[13] Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, Submission 7, p 18, and Annex E, ABC Online Licensing
Guidelines.
[14] Geoff
Elliott, “ABC’s fury over Optus bad news”, The Australian, 15 February
2000.
[15] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 9.
[16] Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, Submission 7, p 18; Proof Committee Hansard,
Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 9.
[17] Mr Graeme
Thomson, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 24 March 2000, p 69.
[18] In answer
to a question on notice the ABC explained that: ‘ABC news
stories and stories sent to third party websites are updated regularly
throughout the day to reflect breaking news. The story as sent to Looksmart and
Optus was an amalgamation of the first TWO stories of the Telstra result that
day: the announcement of the $2 billion profit, and an addition filed by the
ABC’s radio reporter of the stockmarket reaction. Both have been identified as
stand-alone stories in the radio queues. The version used on the ABC site is an
amalgamation of the first THREE stories filed on that day: the two stories
mentioned above, and a third story which referred to the job losses. The
difference in the time stamp is explained simply because the ABC added to the
story on its own site in the time it took the third parties to pick up the
original story from the ABC’s server (delays of up to an hour are inevitable as
each client updates its site at different times). It is likely that later
versions of the story would have appeared on the third party websites on 8
March as soon as they picked them up from the server.’
[19] Mr John
Rolland, Hansard, Senate Environment, Communications, Information
Technology and the Arts Committee, Additional Estimates, 10 February 2000, p
78.
[20] Mr Harry
Bardwell, Hansard, Senate Environment, Communications, Information
Technology and the Arts Committee, Additional Estimates, 10 February 2000, p
109.
[21] Wireless
Access Protocol (WAP) is a common protocol developed for the transmission of
many different kinds of internet services to wireless devices such as pagers
and mobile phones. Short Message Service (SMS) is a service for sending
messages of up to 160 characters to mobile phones that use Global System for
Mobile (GSM) communication.< http://www.whatis.com/ >, 30 March 2000.
[22] Mr John
Rolland, Hansard, Senate Environment, Communications, Information
Technology and the Arts Committee, Additional Estimates, 10 February 2000, p
75.
[23] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 24 March 2000, p 90.
[24] Mr John
Rolland, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 24 March 2000, p 57.
[25] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 24 March 2000, p 65.
[26] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 31.
[27] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 24 March 2000, p 70.
[28] Mr John
Cassidy, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 52.
[29] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 22.
[30] Hansard,
Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
Committee, Additional Estimates, 10 February 2000, p 107.
[31] Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, Answers to questions on notice, 23 March 2000.
[32] Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, Submission 7, Annex E, “ABC Online Licensing
Guidelines” and “ABC Online Licence Agreement”.
[33] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 33.
[34] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 38.
[35] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 34.
[36] Mr John
Millard, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 34.
[37] Dr
Julianne Schultz, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 24 March 2000, p
81.
[38] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 25.
[39] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 25.
[40] Dr
Julianne Schultz, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 24 March 2000, p
83.
[41] Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, Editorial Policies, ss 13.2.8 and 13.2.9.
[42] Mr John
Rolland, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 24 March 2000, p 55.
[43] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, pp 24-25.
[44] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 24 March 2000, p 96.
[45] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 24 March 2000, pp 96-97.
[46] Harry
Bardwell, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 10.
[47] Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, Responses to questions on notice, 29 March 2000, p 3.
[48] Quentin
Dempster, Submission 4, p 2. The communications journalist Mr Stewart Fist
expressed concern about ‘incrementalism’ in the ABC, while the Friends of the
ABC’s John Cassidy argued that ‘as long as the ABC is receiving a significant
percentage of its funding from a commercial source, there is a danger’. Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, pp 46, 52.
[49] Dr
Julianne Schultz, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 6;
Mr Brian Johns, Hansard, Senate Environment, Communications, Information
Technology and the Arts Committee, Additional Estimates, 11 February 2000, p
203.
[50] Hansard,
Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
Committee, Additional Estimates, 11 February 2000, p 203.
[51] Hansard,
Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
Committee, Additional Estimates, 11 February 2000, p 201.
[52] Quentin
Dempster, Submission 4, pp 2-4.
[53] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 50.
[54] Dr
Julianne Schultz, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 6.
[55] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 29.
[56] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 30.
[57] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 38.
[58] Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, Submission 7, p 8.
[59] Dr
Julianne Schultz, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 24 March 2000, p
80.
[60] Hansard,
Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
Committee, Additional Estimates, 10 February 2000, p 112.
[61] Mr John
Rolland, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 24 March 2000, p 63.
[62] Chris
Warren, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 27.
[63] Quentin
Dempster, Submission 4, p 5.
[64] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 31.
[65] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 48.
[66] Mr Chris
Warren, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 48.
[67] Dr
Julianne Schultz, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p
12.
[68] Australian
Competition and Consumer Commission, Declaration of Analogue Subscription
Television Broadcast Carriage Service, August 1999. The ACCC has declined
to declare technology-neutral subscription TV services (which would include
digital services) because of the uncertainty about digital broadcasting in
general. It stated however that it would continue to monitor developments in
digital services and technologies in order to assess whether a future
declaration would be justified. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission,
Declaration of Subscription Television Broadcast Carriage Service
(Technology Neutral), August 1999.
[69] Luke
Collins, “Telstra loses cable control”, The Australian Financial Review,
28 March 2000, p 1; Bryan Frith, “Cable on the table for Seven and other little
Australians”, The Australian, 28 March 2000, p 22.
[70] Mr John
Cleary, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 24 March 2000, p 73.
[71] Dr
Julianne Schultz, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 24 March 2000, p
90.
[72] See
Stewart Fist, Submission 3.
[73] <
http://www.telstra.com/res/docs/Privacy.asp > , 31 March 2000.
[74] <
http://www.telstra.com/res/docs/Privacy.asp > , 31 March 2000.
[75] Dr
Julianne Schultz, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p
19.
[76] Mr Harry
Bardwell, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 19.
[77] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, Mr Quentin Dempster, p 29, Mr
Chris Warren, p 22, Mr Darce Cassidy, p 49.
ALP Senators' report
[1]
Mr. B. Johns, Additional Estimates, Senate Environment, Communications,
Information Technologies and the Arts Legislation Committee, Official
Committee Hansard, 10 February 2000, p.106; ABC website at http://www.abc.gov.au/default.htm
and http://www.abc.gov.au/corp/hist1.htm.
[2]
Mr. B. Johns, Additional Estimates, Senate Environment, Communications,
Information Technologies and the Arts Legislation Committee, Official
Committee Hansard, 10 February 2000, p.106.
[3]
ABC, Submission 7, p.31. Labor Senators understand reversioning and
re-purposing to mean the reformatting of material for delivery on alternative
media.
[4]
Mr. B. Johns, Additional Estimates, Senate Environment, Communications,
Information Technologies and the Arts Legislation Committee, Official
Committee Hansard, 10 February 2000, p.106.
[5]
ABC, Submission 7, p.33.
[6]
ABC, Submission 7, p.31.
[7]
For example Friends of the ABC, Submission 5, p.7; Media, Entertainment and
Arts Alliance, Submission 10, p.7.
[8]
Mr. S. Fist, Official Committee Hansard, 17 March 2000, p.45; Mr. G.
Thompson, CPSU, Official Committee Hansard, 24 March 2000, p.67.
[9]
Official Committee Hansard, 17 March 2000, per Mr. Q. Dempster, pp.30-32
and Mr. S. Fist, p.42; Mr Q. Dempster, Submission 4, p.4.
[10]
Mr. S. Fist, Official Committee Hansard, 17 March 2000, p.42.
[11]
Mr. S. Fist, Submission 3, p.11.
[12]
Mr. S. Fist, Official Committee Hansard, 17 March 2000, pp.43, 44.
[13]
Specific concerns relate to digital spectrum, advertising and cross-promotion.
[14]
Dr. J. Schultz, ABC, Official Committee Hansard, 17 March 2000, p.8.
[15]
Mr. C. Griffith, Official Committee Hansard, 17 March 2000, p.5; Dr. J.
Schultz, Official Committee Hansard, 24 March 2000, p80.
[16]
Dr. J. Schultz, Official Committee Hansard, 17 March 2000, p7.
[17]
Mr. H. Bardwell, Official Committee Hansard, 17 March 2000, p.10.
[18]
Dr. J. Schultz, Official Committee Hansard, 17 March 2000, p.8.
[19]
Dr. J. Schultz, Official Committee Hansard, 24 March 2000, pp.86-88.
[20]
Dr. J. Schultz, Official Committee Hansard, 24 March 2000, p.89-94,
quote at pp.91-92.
[21]
Dr. J. Schultz, Official Committee Hansard, 24 March 2000, p.80.
[22]
Dr. J. Schultz, Official Committee Hansard, 17 March 2000, p.12.
[23]
Dr. J. Schultz, Official Committee Hansard, 24 March 2000, p.83.
[24]
Dr. J. Schultz, Official Committee Hansard, 24 March 2000, p.89.
[25]
Dr. J. Schultz, Official Committee Hansard, 24 March 2000, p.84-86.
[26]
Dr. J. Schultz, Official Committee Hansard, 24 March 2000, pp.90, 91.
[27]
Discussed in interviews with Senator R. Alston, Minister for Communications,
Information Technology and the Arts, PM, 16 July 1996, and 7.30
Report, 16 July 1996.
[28]
ABC, Submission 7, p.32.
[29]
Interview with Jim Middleton, ABC tally room, 10 March 1996.
[30]
See paragraph 1.9.
[31]
Dr. J. Schultz, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Official Committee
Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p.7.
[32]
Ibid.
[33]
Dr. J. Schultz, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Official Committee
Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p.6.
[34]
Mr. Q. Dempster, Submission 4, pp.2-4.
[35]
See paragraphs [1.17]-[1.20] below.
[36]
Mr. S. Fist, Submission 3, and Mr. J. Millard, Submission 8.
[37]
Friends of the ABC, Submission 5, p.10.
[38]
Friends of the ABC, Submission 5, pp.7-11.
[39]
Submission 19, p.11.
[40]
Mr. C. Warren, Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, Official Committee
Hansard, 17 March 2000, p.23; Mr. J. Cassidy, Friends of the ABC, Official
Committee Hansard, 17 March 2000, p.49.
[41]
Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, Official Committee Hansard, 17
March 2000, p.23.
[42]
Dr. J. Schultz, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Official Committee
Hansard, Canberra, 24 March 2000, pp.96-97.
[43]
Dr. J. Schultz, Official Committee Hansard, 24 March 2000, p.95.
[44]
Clause 8(b) in original term sheet, available at http://www.electric-words.com/abc/index.html.
[45]
Recent auctions of mobile phone (GSM) spectrum have resulted in world record
prices. The latest auction of spectrum in Australia resulted in a total of
$1.327 billion being paid – the largest price paid in the world in a spectrum
sale. This total is about four times that collected in May 1998 when the last
mobile spectrum auction when 50 per cent more GSM spectrum was auctioned: I.
Henderson, S. Mitchell, M. Gilchrist, “Airwave Sale nets bonanza”, The
Australian, 16 March 2000; K. Morrison, “Mobile spectrum sale reaps
$1.33bn”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 March 2000. Similarly remarkable
figures of over 3.5 billion pounds are emerging in the second phase of a UK
auction of radio frequencies to run third generation mobile networks:
Radiocommunications Agency, UK; details available at http://www.spectrumauctions.gov.uk.
[46]
Mr. H. Bardwell, Dr. J. Schultz, Official Committee Hansard, 17 March
2000, p.10.
[47]
Term sheet available at http://www.electric-words.com/abc/index.html:
Clause 3(b)(1) and (2)(A) and (2)(B) which state (in relation to fees payable
by Telstra):
(b) Plus, after the first two years a payment equal to the higher
of:
(1) $2.5 million; and
(2) the aggregate of
A. 5%
of all e-commerce revenues derived by its relat[ed] bodies corporate where
traffic originates from a Telstra site where there is no ABC content; and
B. 15%
of all “advertising” revenue derived by Telstra and its related bodies
corporate from Telstra sites containing ABC content (to the extent that the
relevant page contains non-ABC content then this fee will be proportionately
reduced.
Labor Senators note that sub-clause (A) relates to
e-commerce revenue and para (B) relates to advertising revenue. ABC
spokespersons conceded sub-clause (B) is currently outside Board guidelines and
could only be accessed with a change of Board policy: Dr. J. Schultz,.
Additional Estimates, Senate Environment, Communications, Information
Technologies and the Arts Legislation Committee, Official Committee Hansard,
10 February 2000, p.112.
[48]
Dr. J. Schultz, Official Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000,
p.12.
Government Senators' report
[1] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 2.
[2] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 16.
[3] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 17 March 2000, p 7.
[4] Hansard,
Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
Committee, Additional Estimates, 10 February 2000, p 106.
[5] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 24 March 2000, p 58.
[6] Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 24 March 2000, p 96.