Radio Australia
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| Type | Radio network |
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| Country | Australia |
| Availability | International |
| Owner | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
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Key people
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Lynley Marshall (CEO, ABC International) |
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Official website
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http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/ |
| Language | English, Pidgin, French |
Radio Australia is the international broadcasting and online service operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Australia's public broadcaster. Most programming is in English, with some in Tok Pisin and French.
Radio Australia terminated shortwave radio broadcasting effective 31 January 2017 but continues broadcasting online and using other transmission modes such as DAB+.
Shortwave services from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation were inaugurated in December 1939 by Prime Minister Robert Menzies.
One of the functions of Australian shortwave broadcasting was to counter Axis powers propaganda, particularly that of the Japanese. However, the ABC's transmitters were much weaker than the Japanese or German services. The transmitter of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) (AWA) near Sydney had 10 kilowatts (kW) of power, and stations VLR and VLW had 2 kW each.
In 1941, following consultation between the British and Australian governments, a transmitter site in Shepparton, Victoria was selected, in part because of a flat landscape and soil conductivity. The site was completed in 1944 with one 50 kW and two 100 kW transmitters. The station was then formally named Radio Australia.
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