Footnotes

Chapter 1

[1]        Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Television Switch-over) Bill 2008, Explanatory Memorandum (EM), p. 1.

[2]        Digital Switchover Taskforce, Legislative framework for implementing a digital television switchover timetable, Discussion Paper, May 2008, p.3.

[3]        Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, 'Conroy sets Digital TV switchover timetable', Press release, 19 October 2008.

[4]        R. Jolly and P. Pyburne, Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Television Switch-over) Bill 2008, Bills Digest No. 35, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2008-09.

[5]        R. Jolly and P. Pyburne, Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Television Switch-over) Bill 2008, Bills Digest No. 35, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2008-09.

[6]        Senate Hansard, 24 September 2008, p. 1. 

[7]        R. Jolly and P. Pyburne, Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Television Switch-over) Bill 2008, Bills Digest No. 35, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2008-09.

[8]        Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Television Switch-over) Bill 2008, EM, p. 14.

[9]        Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Television Switch-over) Bill 2008, EM, p. 16.

[10]      Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Television Switch-over) Bill 2008, EM, p. 10.

[11]      Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Television Switch-over) Bill 2008, EM, p. 11.

[12]      Free TV, Submission 3, p. 1.

[13]      Submission 3, pp 4–8.

[14]      Submission 2, p. 2.

[15]      Ms Julie Flynn, Chief Executive Officer, Free TV Australia, Committee Hansard, 12 November 2008, p. 2. 

[16]      Ms Julie Flynn, Chief Executive Officer, Free TV Australia, Committee Hansard, 12 November 2008, p. 2. 

[17]      Digital Technology International and The Generics Group, Attitudes to Digital Switchover, The impact of digital switchover on consumer adoption of digital television, 30 March 2004, p. 39. 

[18]      Ms Julie Flynn, Chief Executive Officer, Free TV Australia, Committee Hansard, 12 November 2008, p. 1.

[19]      DBCDE, Submission 2, p. 3.

[20]      Submission 3, p. 8. 

[21]      Submission 3, p. 9.

[22]      Submission 2, p. 5.

[23]      Mr Ken Fihelly, Submission 7.

[24]      Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Installing digital television: apartments and offices, http://www.dbcde.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/81239/Installing_DTV_apartments_and_offices.pdf (accessed 19 November 2008).

[25]      Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Legislative framework for implementing a digital television switchover timetable: Discussion Paper, May 2008, p. 3.

[26]      Imparja Television, http://www.imparja.com/content/view/7/8 (accessed 11 November 2008).  

[27]      National Indigenous Television, http://nitv.org.au/ (accessed 11 November 2008). 

[28]      Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, 'Conroy sets Digital TV switch-over timetable', Press release, 19 October 2008. 

[29]      Submission 5, p. 2; Submission 6, p. 6. 

[30]      Submission 6, p.3. 

[31]      Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Digital conversion of self-help television transmission sites, Discussion Paper, June 2007, p. 3, http://www.dbcde.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/70278/Digital_conversion_of_self-help_television_retransmission_sites_-_discussion_paper.pdf (accessed 11 November 2008); R. Jolly and P. Pyburne, Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Television Switch-over) Bill 2008, Bills Digest No. 35, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2008-09. 

[32]      Submission 5, p. 3. 

[33]      Submission 6, p. 7.

[34]      Submission 6, p. 7.

[35]      Submission 6, p. 7. 

[36]      Submission 5, p. 2. 

[37]      Submission 5, p. 3. 

[38]      Submission 5, p. 3; Submission 6, p. 6. 

Coalition Senators' Additional Comments

[1] Submission 3, p. 3.

[2] Ms Julie Flynn, Free TV Australia, Committee Hansard, 12 November 2008, p. 2.