AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: Labor condemns ABC to digital backwater.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-11 February 1999-AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: Labor condemns ABC to digital backwater (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:110299 'Labor cannot be allowed to condemn the ABC to a digital backwater. Labor's knee-jerk ranting about the ABC is a direct attack on its future as a vibrant and cutting edge broadcaster,' the Minister for Communications, Senator Richard Alston, said today.

'Labor spokesman Stephen Smith wants to prevent the ABC from making full use of the opportunities offered by digital communications. He believes the ABC shouldn't be involved in any commercial activities. Why not? 'The ABC Act specificially permits the Corporation to undertake commercial activities which are "related to or incidental to the performance of any of the...