[csaa-forum] UNSW Seminar

[Melissa Gregg]

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From: James Donald [mailto:j.donald at unsw.edu.au] 
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UNSW Media, Film and Theatre Seminars
5 p.m. Wednesday 1 June 2005
Webster Building 327





>From the Murrumbidgee to Mamma Lena
Foreign-language broadcasting on Australian commercial radio 

Bridget Griffen-Foley 




>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?

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.

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. 




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Dr James Donald
Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and Theatre
University of New South Wales
Sydney
NSW 2052
Australia

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