Station Identification: The Aboriginal Programs Unit of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Over the last decade, the production of media by and about Aboriginal Australians has undergone geometric expansion, from a few experimental efforts at developing local video production in the early 1980s in remote communities, to the current situation in which video equipment and television broadcasting are available to practically every Aboriginal settlement that wants it. It is not only the work of remote-living Aboriginal people that has taken off. Urban Aboriginal independent filmmakers such as Tracey Moffatt are well-known in independent film circles; Moffatt has just completed her first feature, "Bedevil, " that was shown at Cannes and is circulating in an international market. While the costs and benefits of such developments are still being debated (Ginsburg 1991; Langton 1993),…