(Unredacted) Submission to the Aus Govt Review of Australian Broadcasting Services in the Asia Pacific
As a leader of a team of broadcasters and content makers going live-to-air, Radio Australia program makers needed to know where our audience was.
If I Had A Tail
The crowded Pacific: re-considering the sharp edge of broadcasting’s soft power
By Geoff Heriot Long before the ABC abandoned shortwave broadcasting to PNG and the Pacific, its programming for indigenous audiences (as distinct from Australian expatriates) had become risible. For those concerned with Australia’s status as the region’s principal security partner, this should matter.
Inaugural Pacific Media Summit 2009
“Breaking Barriers – Access to Information”: Mark Scott, Session 6 Relationships and Role of Development Partners – Friends or Neo-Colonialists Pacific Partner, Pacific Friend: ABC International
Mental Notes August 2022: Mugabe, Habibe, Pohiva, dad, and I
BRISBANE–Wrote this in a flourish when dad died. Not quite right then, with so much detail, now found it makes sense.
Somme at 100
With a blow of the whistles at 7:30am on July 1, 1916, tens of thousands of British troops went over the top and advanced on German lines in positions abutting the River Somme in France.
Governor says live firing on PNG marchers ‘unwarranted’
The Governor of Papua New Guinea’s capital said the use of live ammunition on students was “unwarranted” and has challenged Government claims that police were provoked with stone throwing, kicking off a violent confrontation.
No regrets over Sandline affair: Sir Julius
Papua New Guinea’s former prime minister Sir Julius Chan says that if he had been allowed to continue with the infamous Sandline operation to put down the Bougainville civil war in 1997, he would have been able to bring the island under control.
HK umbrella movement one year on
One year on from the pro-democracy protests that brought Hong Kong to a standstill, organisers admit that China’s Communist leadership shows no sign of budging on reform, but a spark could reignite the movement.
Anzac Treasures
MELBOURNE–My family should never have to pay for rosemary.
‘Tigers’ snared by China’s anti-corruption campaign
Since his ascendency to general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in November 2012 and the presidency in March 2013, Xi Jinping has executed a sweeping anti-corruption campaign that has targeted hundreds of thousands of officials at all levels of government and state-owned industry.
