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Part One of this thesis has analysed the relationship between culture and policy in
three ways. First, it has sought to establish a relationship between culture and
as a dense and complex one, where policy directions are promoted in the context
interests - most notably the commercial broadcast licensees - have possessed the
thus tended to operate by indirect means, and to imply a regulatory quid prop quo
between the monopoly profits of the industry and the achievement of citizenship
goals and cultural policy objectives. Finally, the likelihood of academic criticism
critical discourses into the language of policy communities, and to link up with
ongoing tension between rule through expertise and popular sovereignty. This is
terms, Australian television has been among the most open to imported
policies does not precede media globalisation; rather, the two competing
distinctive complexion to the ways in which the relationship between culture and
apparent that the ‘policy turn’ in Australian media and cultural studies arose partly
out of the need to better translate the concerns of intellectuals and cultural critics
discourses that had marked a divide between policy activists and critical
The second part of this thesis will move from general conceptual analysis
themes established in the first part of the thesis continue, nonetheless, to inform
competing institutional agents. This is apparent in the four case studies developed:
moves to expand public participation by the ABT in the 1970s; the debate
the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 being passed; and the implications of
these cases we see tensions between different ways of addressing the Australian
media audience as citizens: over the period from 1972 to 2000, such audiences are
content industries.