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AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION ACT 1983 - SECT 6

Charter of the Corporation

  (1)   The functions of the Corporation are:

  (a)   to provide within Australia innovative and comprehensive broadcasting services of a high standard as part of the Australian broadcasting system consisting of national, commercial and community sectors and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, to provide:

  (i)   broadcasting programs that contribute to a sense of national identity and inform and entertain, and reflect the cultural diversity of, the Australian community; and

  (ii)   broadcasting programs of an educational nature;

  (b)   to transmit to countries outside Australia broadcasting programs of news, current affairs, entertainment and cultural enrichment that will:

  (i)   encourage awareness of Australia and an international understanding of Australian attitudes on world affairs; and

  (ii)   enable Australian citizens living or travelling outside Australia to obtain information about Australian affairs and Australian attitudes on world affairs; and

  (ba)   to provide digital media services; and

  (c)   to encourage and promote the musical, dramatic and other performing arts in Australia.

Note:   See also section   31AA (Corporation or prescribed companies to be the only providers of Commonwealth - funded international broadcasting services).

  (2)   In the provision by the Corporation of its broadcasting services within Australia:

  (a)   the Corporation shall take account of:

  (i)   the broadcasting services provided by the commercial and community sectors of the Australian broadcasting system;

  (ii)   the standards from time to time determined by the ACMA in respect of broadcasting services;

  (iii)   the responsibility of the Corporation as the provider of an independent national broadcasting service to provide a balance between broadcasting programs of wide appeal and specialized broadcasting programs;

  (iv)   the multicultural character of the Australian community; and

  (v)   in connection with the provision of broadcasting programs of an educational nature--the responsibilities of the States in relation to education; and

  (b)   the Corporation shall take all such measures, being measures consistent with the obligations of the Corporation under paragraph   ( a), as, in the opinion of the Board, will be conducive to the full development by the Corporation of suitable broadcasting programs.

  (3)   The functions of the Corporation under subsection   ( 1) and the duties imposed on the Corporation under subsection   ( 2) constitute the Charter of the Corporation.

  (4)   Nothing in this section shall be taken to impose on the Corporation a duty that is enforceable by proceedings in a court.


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