TY - CHAP
T1 - AUSTRALIA
T2 - BROADCASTING IN THE POLITICAL BATTLE
AU - Harding, Richard
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1985 Raymond Kuhn.
PY - 2023/12/22
Y1 - 2023/12/22
N2 - The Australian Constitution confers a wide range of enumerated powers upon the central (Commonwealth) government. The High Court held that the Act was a valid exercise of the power conferred by section 51v of the Constitution. In doing so, it rejected two propositions of immense potential significance to the future development of Australian broadcasting law. It is interesting that at about the same time judicial decisions were allocating power over broadcasting to the central governments in the two British Commonwealth nations with the greatest land-masses and the most complex ethnic mix. Subconsciously, perhaps, but unequivocally the way was being paved for broadcasting to become an instrument of national unification and identity. The political history of the development of Australian broadcasting and telecommunications is thus an aspect of Commonwealth political history.
AB - The Australian Constitution confers a wide range of enumerated powers upon the central (Commonwealth) government. The High Court held that the Act was a valid exercise of the power conferred by section 51v of the Constitution. In doing so, it rejected two propositions of immense potential significance to the future development of Australian broadcasting law. It is interesting that at about the same time judicial decisions were allocating power over broadcasting to the central governments in the two British Commonwealth nations with the greatest land-masses and the most complex ethnic mix. Subconsciously, perhaps, but unequivocally the way was being paved for broadcasting to become an instrument of national unification and identity. The political history of the development of Australian broadcasting and telecommunications is thus an aspect of Commonwealth political history.
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UR - https://www.routledge.com/The-Politics-of-Broadcasting/Kuhn/p/book/9781032630403
U2 - 10.4324/9781032630458-8
DO - 10.4324/9781032630458-8
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85180027359
SN - 9781032630403
T3 - Routledge Library Editions: Broadcasting Series
SP - 233
EP - 263
BT - The Politics of Broadcasting
A2 - Kuhn, Raymond
PB - Routledge
CY - United States
ER -