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Article: Who owns the national identity?
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- IPA Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Institute of Public Affairs 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Claims that the ABC, the Australia Council or any other government agency has a special role in shaping the national identity should sound warning bells.
DURING the current debate regarding the future of the ABC an argument has emerged that the ABC has a special role expressing and preserving the Australian national identity. I first heard this view stated by Quentin Dempster on Radio National but it also turned up in an article written by Morag Fraser for the Sydney Morning Herald. If we are to recognize that the ABC has a 'special' role in relation to the national identity then we must also accept that what comes out of the ABC on this matter is equally ,special', and more worthy of our ...