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Abbreviations


2000$ 2000 Australian dollar
$ Australian dollar
£ UK pound
AANA Australian Association of National Advertisers
ABA Australian Broadcasting Authority (see ACMA)
ABC Australian Broadcasting Corporation
ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics
ACC Australian Copyright Council
ACCC Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
ACIF Australian Communications Industry Forum
ACMA Australian Communications and Media Authority
ACOFS Australian Council of Film Societies
ACS Australian Cinematographers Society
ACS Australian Computer Society
ACT Australian Capital Territory
ACTF Australian Children’s Television Foundation
AFC Australian Film Commission
AFI Australian Film Institute
AFTRS Australian Film, Television and Radio School
AIATSIS Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
AIIA Australian Information Industry Association
AIMIA Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association
aka also known as
AMCOS Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society Ltd
AME Australian Multimedia Enterprise
APRA Australasian Performing Right Association Ltd
ARIA Australian Record Industry Association Ltd
ASA Australian Society of Authors
ASDA Australian Screen Directors Association Ltd
ASPA Australian Software Publishers Association
ASTRA Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association
ATOM Australian Teachers of Media
AVSDA Australian Visual Software Distributors Association
AWG Australian Writers’ Guild
AWGIE Australian Writers’ Guild Award
BSAA Business Software Association of Australia
CAD Commercials Acceptance Division Pty Ltd
CBAA Community Broadcasting Association of Australia
CBCRB Classification Board and Classification Review Board (formerly the Office of Film and Literature Classification
CEASA Commercial Economic Advisory Service of Australia
CER Closer Economic Relations
CLC Communications Law Centre
CNC Centre National de la Cinématographie
CREATE Culture Recreation Education and Training Enterprise Australia
CTPF Commercial Television Production Fund
DCITA Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
DM German Deutschmark
DVD digital versatile disk
FA Film Australia
FACTS Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations (see Free TV)
FFC Film Finance Corporation Australia
FLIC Film Licensed Investment Company
Free TV Free TV Australia
FTI Film and Television Institute (WA)
HDTV high-definition television
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISP Internet service provider
k thousand
m million
MEAA Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance
MPDAA Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia
MRC Media Resource Centre
n.a. not available
NCCRS National Centre for Culture and Recreation Statistics, Australian Bureau of Statistics
NFSA National Film and Sound Archive
NIP Film Australia’s National Interest Program
n.p. not for publication
NSW New South Wales
NSWFTO New South Wales Film and Television Office
NT Northern Territory
P&A prints and advertising
PBL Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd
PFTC Pacific Film and Television Commission
POP point of presence (or in the context of email, ‘post office protocol’)
PPCA Phonographic Performance Company of Australia
Qld Queensland
RMS Retail Monitoring Service
SA South Australia
SAFC South Australian Film Corporation
SBS Special Broadcasting Service
SBSI SBS Independent
SDTV standard-definition television
SIS Service Industries Surveys
SPAA Screen Producers Association of Australia
SWG Statistical Working Group (Cultural Ministers Council)
Tas Tasmania
TVC TV commercial
UK United Kingdom
US United States of America
US$ US dollar
VCA Victorian College of the Arts
VCR video cassette recorder
VOD video-on-demand
Vic Victoria
WA Western Australia
WIFT Women in Film and Television

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