Footnotes
Chapter 1 - Introduction
[1] Brown,
Submission 109.
[2] The ABC
changed from a Commission to a Corporation under the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation Act 1983.
[3] Committee
of Review of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, The ABC in review:
national broadcasting in the 1980s, 1981, Volume 2, p 3.
[4] Report
of the Senate Select Committee on ABC Management and Operations, Our ABC,
March 1995, p 155.
[5] ABC Act,
section 12
[6] Section
12(1). The office of Managing Director is established under section 9, and the
duties are set out in section 10.
[7] Section
13A. The Staff appointed director must be an employed member of the ABC, whilst
the rules governing the elections are provided in Regulations (section 13A(1))
[8] Section
13A(5)
[9] Section
12(1) & (2). Basis for ‘on the advice of the minister’?
[10] Section
13(1)
[11] Section
83
[12] ABC
Website, (www.abc.net.au) as at 6 July 2001.
Chapter 2 - The selection criteria - who should be on the board?
[1] Smith,
Submission 45, p 1.
[2] Neville,
Submission 9, p 1.
[3] FABC
Hunter Region, Submission 18, p 1.
[4] Fraser,
Submission 2, p 1.
[5] Professor
Morgan, Submission 3, p 1.
[6] For
example, Smith, Submission 80; Goodwin, Submission 75, p 1.
[7] For
example: Keogh, Submission 378; Jones, Submission 408; and Thyer, Submission
411.
[8] For
example, Beilby, Submission 31, p 2; Nicol, Submission 685, p 2.
[9] Beilby,
Submission 31, p 1. Also Harding, Submission 48; Vadhat, Submission 55, Marks,
Submission 56.
[10] McCaughey,
Submission 94, Blanch, Submission 103; Oldaker, Submission 106; Steele,
Submission 107; McDonald’s lack of reaction and public anger – Hoy, Submission
176.
[11] Gunson,
Submission 130
[12] Sewards,
Submission 142
[13] Biddington,
Submission 297
[14] Waller,
Submission 200. See also Birch, Submission 182
[15] CPSU,
Submission 363, p 5-6.
[16] Maver,
Submission 114
[17] Steele,
Submission 107; Engelman, Submission 162
[18] Oldaker,
Submission 106
[19] Simmonds,
Submission 117
[20] Dingle,
Submission 181
[21] The
Australian - Media, August 2 – 8, 2001, Mr Steketee.
[22] Burnside,
Submission 205; also Hundley, Submission 490, p 2.
[23] Dempster,
Submission 365, p 1.
[24] Dempster,
Submission 365, p 2.
[25] FABC,
Submission 593, p 16.
[26] Our ABC,
p 140
[27] Inglis, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra 20 August 2001, p 35.
[28] FABC,
Submission 593, p 7.
[29] Official
Senate Hansard, 30 June 1994, quoted by FABC, Submission 593, p 22.
[30] The
Age, 19 January 1996, quoted by FABC, Submission 593, p 22.
[31] Official
House of Representatives Hansard, 6 December 2000, quoted by FABC,
Submission 593, p 24.
[32] CPSU,
Submission 363, pp 5-6.
[33] Appleton,
Submission 498, p 1. See also Morgan, Submission 3, p 2-3.
[34] CAPA,
Submission 592, p 1.
[35] Chappelle,
Submission 14, p 1.
[36] Richards,
Submission 55, p 1.
[37] CPSU,
Submission 363, p 3. See also Professor Armstrong, FABC, Submission 593, p 19.
[Appendix 2]
[38] FABC,
Submission 593, p 20.
[39] Morgan, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra 20 August 2001, p 5.
[40] Set out
in the ABC Act, Section 80.
[41] Committee
of Review of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, The ABC in Review,
1981, Volume 1, p 7.
[42] Mansfield,
The challenge of a better ABC, 1997, Vol 1, p 28.
[43] Appleton,
Submission 498, p 1. See also Curtis, Submission 143
[44] Morgan, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra 20 August 2001, p 9. See also Thomson, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra 20 August 2001, p 21.
[45] Dempster,
Submission 365, p 3.
[46] CAPA,
Submission 592, p 2.
[47] FABC,
Submission 593, p 3.
[48] Thomson, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra 20 August 2001, p 14.
[49] FABC,
Submission 593, p 3.
[50] FABC,
Submission 593, p 16. [Prof Inglis]
[51] Inglis, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra 20 August 2001, p 36.
[52] Morgan,
Submission 3A, p 2.
[53] For
example: Butler, Submission 243; Northover, Submission 252; Central Coast,
FOABC, Submission 627
[54] Thomson, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra 20 August 2001, p 17. A similar view is expressed
by CAPA, Submission 592, p 2.
[55] FABC,
Submission 593, p 21.
[56] The
problem of politicisation is not new. The CPSU discuss the findings of the Dix
Review at Submission 363, p 4.
[57] ABC Act,
section 12(5)
[58] Report of
the Senate Select Committee on ABC Management and Operations, Our ABC,
1995, pp 141 & Recommendation 20.
[59] www.bbc.co.uk.
See also Jakubowski, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001,
p 58.
[60] McCaughey,
Submission 94, p 2. See also Forster, Submission 353
[61] CAPA,
Submission 592, p 2. Similar views are expressed by BIITE, Submission 379;
Leisegang & McCaughey, Submission 94, p 2; Central Coast, FOABC, Submission
627; Hoy, Submission 176; Burnside, Submission 205
[62] FABC,
Submission 593, p 14. (Inglis)
[63] Cassidy, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra 20 August 2001, p 30.
[64] Cassidy, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra 20 August 2001, p 33.
[65] Jakubowski,
Submission 643, p 7; Socialist Alliance, Submission 514; Humanist Society of
Victoria, Submission 493; McLaren, Submission 120; McLaren, Submission 121;
Birch, Submission 182. There is implicit support for additional staff directors
is in Watts, Submission 126.
[66] Gordon-Smith,
Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 54. See also
Gordon-Smith, Submission 608
[67] Forster,
Submission 353. See also FABC Hunter Region, Submission 18, p 1; Walters,
Submission 70; Colbourne, Submission 123; Waller, Submission 200; Levin,
Submission 96; Dempster, Submission 365, p 4.
[68] Thomson, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra 20 August 2001, p 20. See also Dempster, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra 20 August 2001, p 45.
[69] CPSU,
Submission 363, p 10.
[70] FABC,
Submission 593, p 20. [Prof Armstrong]
[71] Appleton,
Submission 498, p 2.
[72] FABC,
Submission 593, p 15. [Prof Inglis]
[73] For
example: Thomson, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p
19.
[74] Report of
the Senate Select Committee on ABC Management and Operations, Our ABC,
1995, p 143.
[75] ABC
Act,section 11.
[76] ABC Act,
section 11(5)
[77] ABC
Advisory Council website at www.abc.net.au.
[78] Jakubowski,
Submission 643, p 8.
[79] FABC,
Submission 593, p 20: see also Everingham, Submission 59, p 2; Socialist
Alliance, Submission 514; Appleton, Submission 498, p 3.
[80] Jakubowski,
Submission 643, p 4.
[81] Government
Response to the Senate Select Committee on ABC Management and Operations, Our
ABC, 20 November 1995.
Chapter 3 - Reforming the appointment process
[1] Forster,
Submission 353
[2] A copy
of the full Code of Practice for Ministerial Appointments to Public Bodies,
published by the UK Office of The Commissioner for Public Appointments is
available from www.ocpa.gov.uk
[3] Public
Service Act (Commonwealth) 1999, Section 10 – APS values.
[4] CPSU,
Submission 363, p 3.
[5] Dempster,
Submission 365, p 3.
[6] For
example: Morgan, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 6;
Dempster, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 44.
[7] Cassidy,
Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 30.
[8] Jakubowski,
Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 56.
[9] OCPA
Code of Practice for Ministerial Appointments to Public Bodies, para 2.12
[10] Batchelor
Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, Submission 379
[11] See for
example Public Service Act (Commonwealth) 1999, Section 10(2). The
Committee notes the comment of Mr Cassidy that it is increasingly the practice
on a range of boards to set selection criteria and advertise. Cassidy, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 38.
[12] See for
example: Puls, Submission 434, p 1; CPSU, Submission 363; Dempster, Submission
365, p 4.
[13] CPSU,
Submission 363, p 12. See also Jakubowski, Submission 643, p 3.
[14] For
example: Millar, Submission 4; Appleton, Submission 498, p 3.
[15] Smith,
Submission 45, p 2.
[16] Kiers,
Submission 269
[17] Cahill,
Submission 1, p 2.
[18] Jakubowski,
Submission 643, p 3.
[19] Beck,
Submission 7; Leisegang & McCaughey, Submission 94, p 2; Colbourne,
Submission 123; Waller, Submission 200; Butler, Submission 243; Wood,
Submission 260; Dempster, Submission 365, p 4.; Jakubowski, Submission 643, p
3.
[20] See
Appendix 3.
[21] Thomson, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 15.
[22] Jakubowski,
Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 56.
[23] Butler,
Submission 243. See also FABC Hunter region, Submisson 18; Waller, Submission
200, p 3; Wood, Submission 260; Fraser, Submission 2, p 1.
[24] Inglis, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 29.
[25] OCPA,
Code of Practice for Ministerial Appointments to Public Bodies, Annex A.
[26] The
importance the public attach to this was a finding of a review of the OCPA
system: Public perceptions of the Ministerial Public Appointments process,
July 2000, p 5.
[27] CPSU,
Submission 363, p 15.
[28] Thomson, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 17.
[29] For
example: Dynes, Submission 19; Chopra, Submission 37; Leisegang &
McCaughey, Submission 94, p 2; Curtis, Submission 143; Birch, Submission 182;
Humanist Society of Victoria, Submission 493; Appleton, Submission 498, p 3.
Beck, Submission7; Crowe, Submission 209; Gray, Submission 247; Wingate,
Submission 302 Dempster, Submission 365, p 4; Bass, Submission 5, p 4; Morrow,
Submission 262; Forster, Submission 353
[30] Chambers,
Submission 268
[31] The
Committee would be established pursuant to the new Part VIIA
[32] ABC
Amendment Bill 1999, Second Reading Speech, p 6.
[33] ABC
Amendment Bill 1999, section 77D(11)
[34] For
example: Davidson, Submission 198; Newell, Submission 246; Dow, Submission 51;
Marks, Submission 56
[35] Cahill,
Submission 1, p 1.
[36] Thomson, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 16.
[37] FABC,
Submission 593, p 14. [Professor Inglis] see also Inglis, Proof Committee
Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 29. This idea is supported by
Hundley, Submission 490, p 4.
[38] Newman,
Submission 226; Doust, Submission 500; Socialist Alliance, Submission 514, p
1& 3; Neville, Submission 9, p 1.
[39] As noted
by Morgan, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 9.
[40] Thomson, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 26.
[41] Thomson, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 16.
[42] McLaren,
Submission 120; McLaren, Submission 121; Waller, Submission 200, p 3;
Crawford, Submission 377; Humanist Society of Victoria, Submission 493; Morgan,
Submission 3, p 1.
[43] Gordon-Smith,
Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 51.
[44] Gordon-Smith,
Submission 608. See also Gordon-Smith, Proof Committee Hansard,
Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 52.
[45] Gordon-Smith,
Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 51.
[46] Bass,
Submission 5, p 4. See also Socialist Alliance, Submission 514
[47] Dempster,
Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra 20 August 2001, p 50; Jakubowski, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 59.
[48] Gordon-Smith,
Submission 608, p 1.
[49] Jakubowski,
Submission 643, p 8. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/bbc/acc_govs_monthly.shtml
[50] Thomson, Proof
Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 18.
[51] Mansfield,
The Challenge of a Better ABC, vol 1, p 28.
[52] Jakubowski,
Submission 643, p .
[53] CPSU,
Submission 363, p 18.
[54] Jakubowski,
Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra, 20 August 2001, p 60.
[55] Gordon-Smith,
Submission 608, p 4.
[56] FABC,
Submission 593, p 21
[57] Butler,
Submission 243
Report by Government Senators
[1] Media
Release, Senator Richard Alston, Minister for Communications, 22 May 2001.
[2] Mr
McDonald, The Australian, 16 July, p 12.
[3] ABC
Media release, ABC Radio announces major expansion in regional Australia, 8
August 2001.
[4] Official
Hansard, Senate Environment Communications, Information Technology and the
Arts Legislation Committee, Thursday 7 June 2001, p 497.
[5] Mr
McDonald, The Australian, 16 July, p 12.
[6] The text
of the letter is at Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra 20 August 2001, p
50.
[7] Mr Dempster,
Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra 20 August 2001, p 48. See also Mr
Cassidy, Proof Committee Hansard, Canberra 20 August 2001, p 37.
[8] At
paragraphs 2.44 and 2.48.
[9] Recommended
Model, paragraph 3.
[10] Public
perceptions of the Ministerial public appointments process, Research study
conducted for the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments, July
2000, pp 4-5.
[11] Mr
Jonathan Shier, Do not adjust your set, National Press Club, 7 March
2001.
Labor Senators' Minority report
[1]
ALP Platform 2000, Chapter 14. Available at
http://www.alp.org.au/policy/platform2000/chapter_14.html
[2]
Prof. Morgan, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.7; Mr
Thomson, CPSU, Proof Committee
Hansard, 20/8/01, p.23;
Prof. Inglis, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, pp.36,37; Ms Jakubowski,
Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.56.
[3]
Mr Thompson, CPSU, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.14.
[4]
Prof. Morgan, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.4.
[5]
Mr Thompson, CPSU, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.14.
[6]
Prof. Morgan, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.3.
[7]
Prof. Morgan, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.1.
[8]
Prof. Morgan, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.1.
[9]
Prof. Morgan, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.3.
[10]
Mr Thomson, CPSU, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.14;
Friends of the ABC, Submission 593,
p.3.
[11] Prof.
Morgan, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.6.
[12]
Prof. Morgan, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, pp.6-7; Mr
Thomson, CPSU, Proof Committee
Hansard, 20/8/01, pp.17,
21; Prof. Inglis, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.35; Mr Dempster,
Submission 365, p.3.
[13]
Prof. Morgan, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.5; Mr
Thomson, CPSU, Proof Committee
Hansard, 20/8/01, p.16;
Prof. Inglis, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.37; Mr Dempster,
Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.42; Ms Jakubowski, Submission 643, p.3;
Friends of the ABC, Submission 593, p.9.
[14]
Mr Thomson, CPSU, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.15; Mr
Dempster, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.44; Ms Jakubowski, Proof
Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.58, Submission 643, p.3; Mr Cassidy, Friends
of the ABC, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.30, Submission 593, p.9.
[15] Mr
Thomson, CPSU, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, pp.15-16; Ms
Jakubowski, Proof Committee
Hansard, 20/8/01, p.58, Submission 643, p.3.
[16] Mr
Thomson, CPSU, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.15; Mr Dempster,
Proof Committee
Hansard, 20/8/01, p.42; Ms
Jakubowski, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.59; Friends of the ABC,
Submission 593, p.9.
[17]
Prof. Morgan, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.5; Mr
Thomson, CPSU, Proof Committee
Hansard, 20/8/01, p.20;
Friends of the ABC, Submission 593, p.9; Mr Dempster, Proof Committee
Hansard, 20/8/01,
p.44, Submission 365, p.4.
[18]
Prof. Morgan, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.5; Mr
Thomson, CPSU, Proof Committee
Hansard,
20/8/01, p.17.
[19]
Prof. Morgan, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.5; Mr
Thomson, CPSU, Proof Committee
Hansard,
20/8/01, p.17.
[20]
Prof. Morgan, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.5.
[21]
Mr Thomson, CPSU, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.15; Ms
Jakubowski, Proof Committee
Hansard,
20/8/01, p.57.
[22]
Mr Thomson, CPSU, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.20; Ms
Jakubowski, Proof Committee
Hansard, 20/8/01,
p.57; Prof. Inglis, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.28; Mr Dempster,
Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.44; Mr Cassidy, Friends of the ABC, Proof
Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.30, Submission 593, p.9.
[23]
Prof. Morgan, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.3; Mr
Thomson, CPSU, Proof Committee
Hansard,
20/8/01, p.15.
[24]
Prof. Morgan, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.3.
[25]
Mr Thomson, CPSU, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.15;
Friends of the ABC, Submission 593, p.9.
[26]
Mr Thomson, CPSU, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, pp.21,
26; Mr Cassidy, Friends of the ABC,
Proof Committee Hansard,
20/8/01, pp.31, 39.
[27]
Prof. Morgan, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.13.
[28]
Senator Schacht, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.13.
[29]
Mr Thomson, CPSU, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, pp.21,
26; Mr Cassidy, Friends of the ABC,
Proof Committee Hansard,
20/8/01, pp.31, 39; Ms Jakubowski, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01,
p.55; Mr Dempster, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.44, 46.
[30]
Prof. Morgan, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.7; Mr
Thomson, CPSU, Proof Committee
Hansard, 20/8/01,
p.23; Prof. Inglis, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, pp.36,37; Ms
Jakubowski, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.56.
[31]
CPSU, Submission 363, p.17. The CPSU thought the US system can be
“quite a destructive affair”
which focuses “on personal
characteristics and can lead to character assassination as a way of killing off
a candidate”: Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.16.
[32]
Mr Thomson, CPSU, Proof Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.16; Mr
Cassidy, Friends of the ABC,
Proof
Committee Hansard, 20/8/01, p.38, Submission 593, p.10.
[33]
Regarding politicisation of other appointments, see Friends of the
ABC, Submission 593, p.8.
[34]
Senator John Faulkner, Shadow Minister For Public Administration,
“Re-invigorating Commonwealth
Public Administration”,
Presentation to a Seminar Sponsored by the Institute of Public Administration
Australia (ACT Division) and the National Institute for Governance, National
Convention Centre, 22/3/01.
[35]
ALP Platform 2000, Chapter 14. Available at
http://www.alp.org.au/policy/platform2000/chapter_14.html
Appendix 3 - The method of appointment to board positions for the British Broadcasting Corporation
[1] Taken
from the Code of Practice for Ministerial Appointments to Public Bodies,
published by the UK Office of The Commissioner for Public Appointments, www.ocpa.gov.uk