The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australia's public broadcaster, the Australian taxpayer-funded equivalent of the UK BBC, and it produces national and local television, radio and online services (see: http://www.abc.net.au/ ) .
A Search of the “entire ABC site” for the phrase “aboriginal genocide” on 30 December 2009 yielded a mere 9 items and scant information merely indicating that the term "aboriginal genocide" is used and is "controversial", as detailed below (see: http://www.abc.net.au/ andhttp://search.abc.net.au/search/search.cgi?query=%22aboriginal+genocide%22&sort=&collection=abcall&form=simple ).
1. 2003: “Paul Sheehan, author of the massive bestseller "Among The Barbarians", is one of the most controversial, iconoclastic and thought-provoking commentators in Australia today. In “The Electronic Whorehouse” he turns his formidable intellect to the subject he knows best - the media itself. Revealing the agendas, manipulations, back-biting, cat-fighting and herd instinct that make up much of our traditional press - both print and electronic - Sheehan relentlessly shines a spotlight on the media's handling of some of the most heated issues under debate today; such as the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, ethnic crime, the Stolen Generation and Aboriginal genocide” (see ABC Shop : http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?productid=503517 ).
2. 23 October 2005: “A recent lecture given by historian Bain Attwood, based on his new book [“Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History”, Allen & Unwin 2005]. Why has the interpretation of Australian history, particularly our colonial history, continued to garner public debate? In this lecture, Bain Attwood offers some new insights into the 'history wars' and the rise of 'history warriors' such as Keith Windschuttle. Attwood also considers why historians' arguments about Aboriginal genocide on the Australian colonial frontier are so important, charts the development of Aboriginal history as a distinct stream of historiography in Australia, and tackles the nature of historical knowledge, truth and authority in the contemporary world. Bain Attwood is Associate Professor of History at Monash University. This lecture was hosted by the Institute for Public History, at Monash University (see Hinsdsight: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/stories/2005/1484876.htm ).
3. 23 October 2005: as for item #2.
4. 23 March 2004 “In Australia, all Orthodox churches have remained inflexible and without adjustments to the new reality, unable to cope with the question of pluralism and diversity. In many occasions they function as tribal and definitely ultra-nationalist institutions without reaching out to the problems of society in which their faithful live. They know nothing about the aboriginal genocide, gender discrimination, or poverty. They function as insular clubs with no real understanding of secular society and its new mentality, sensitivity and aesthetics. Essentially they are afraid of modernity and cannot cope with serious issues of re-orientation such as democratic processes for decision making or structural changes such as ordination of women (see Perspective: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/perspective/stories/2004/1071741.htm ) .
5. 23 March 2004: as for item #4.
6. 9 January 2009: About a hoax on conservative magazine Quadrant, editor of which is the revisionist historian Keith Windschuttle [ABC Board member and who rejects the Tasmanian Aboriginal Genocide].: “Wilson posed as a 41-year-old New York writer based in Brisbane and succeeded in having an article published in Quadrant's current issue about scare campaigns in science reporting. Her identity as the fictional writer Sharon Gould was confirmed today on the Crikey website by writer Margaret Simons, who says she knew about the hoax three weeks before it was published. The piece, "Scare Campaigns and Science Reporting", was still available on the magazine's website this afternoon without any qualifications or warnings about its spurious content. Quadrant's editor, historian Keith Windschuttle, has written a 1000-word explanation to readers, which includes a detailed justification of why he doesn't consider the article a "genuine hoax".He has instead called the article a "piece of fraudulent journalism submitted to Quadrant under false pretences" (see The Drum Unleashed: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2461817.htm )..
7.22 October 2008 : “[Conservative] David Barnett: The appointment of Professor Stuart Macintyre [who has written about the Aboriginal Genocide]to advise the National Curriculum Board on a history curriculum for schools will be applauded everywhere by post-modernists who believe in a Marxist interpretation of Australian and world history. Macintyre, a prolific author who has written extensively about Marxism and the Australian communist party, displaced Geoffrey Blainey as Professor of History at Melbourne University. He was quickly in print in the Melbourne Age and Herald Sun with his views on how history should be taught. He wants a greater appreciation of Aboriginal history and culture, and a retelling of European settlement, global competition and world history. His appointment was coincidental with the launch by the [extremely conservative] Institute of Public Affairs in Melbourne of The Little Black School Book, by Dr Mark Lopez…Macintyre's specious appeal for his history curriculum to be accepted without "polemics or point-scoring" should be ignored. His proposals are too important to pass unchallenged. For the sake of Australia, they must be debated. In the meantime, students should equip themselves with The Little Black School Book. They owe it to themselves, and to their country” (see The Drum Unleashed: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2397860.htm ).
8. 13 December 2007, Bob Ellis on John Howard “Which brings me to my point, that John Howard was not a master politician, but he had an eerie quality about him that was very like charisma. Not in person -- he was red-faced, stodgy and tedious -- but on radio and television, where he had us believing, for instance, that Kim Beazley, a polio survivor and football star, had no ticker; or that it was Australia's duty to see that the US was not 'humiliated' in Iraq, or that removing suckling babies from their mothers who would never see them again was no big deal and not worth saying sorry for. He was certainly the best actor Australian politics has ever seen.” (see The Drum Unleashed: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2117734.htm
9. 12 December 2002 Flynet link to a PM piece “Historian dismisses Tasmanian aboriginal genocide “myth”” [On the PM site, 12/12/2002] A Sydney historian is seeking to cast a new light on what is widely-accepted to be one of the darkest moments in Australian history; what he describes as they myth of the genocide of Tasmanian Aborigines” (see Flynet: http://www.abc.net.au/fly/a_z/indigenous/flyneta_zindigenousarchive_December2002.htm ).