ABC Newslink Hearing recommends national indigenous service Thursday 20 May, 1999 (2:52pm AEST) A Productivity Commission hearing into Australian Broadcasting has heard there is a need to create an indigenous broadcasting service. The National Indigenous Media Association has told today's hearing in Brisbane that a lack of cultural diversity is keeping indigenous issues out of the mainstream media. Chairman, Jim Remedio, says Aboriginal affairs have been sidelined for too long. "We want the opportunity to compete with mainstream media, much the same way that SBS and ABC [does]," Mr Remedio said. "This will give indigenous Australia the best chance of breaking the welfare cycle and allow indigenous media to grow its own economy." ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
