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Australian TV & Gay & Lesbian Issues

nted the widespread development of television until after the conclusion of the war. For Australia, the technology was not introduced at a national level until the mid-1950s, considerably after it had become a common feature in households in the United States and the United Kingdom.

By that time, Australia had substantial models to follow. The American system was built principally on privately-owned and operated commercial broadcasting, with a smaller government-funded public system attempting to supplement the main system with more civic-minded broadcasting. The British system relied on license fees and government funding to support its principal broadcasting efforts. In Australia, the system that evolved had elements of both approaches, as befitted a society less homogenous than the Americans but more free-wheeling than the British. Graeme Turner (2000) observes, "Australian television programming remains one of the key means through which we can imagine ourselves belonging to a nation of common interests and experiences" (p. 3).

Australian television continued to lag behind most other developed nations, however. As Jacka and Johnson (1995) note, "As late as 1978 10 per cent of Australians, a total of 1.4 million people, had an impaired television reception or no service at all" (p. 331). The nation also was slower than many to address the

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