The station was then formally named Radio Australia.
The site was completed in 1944 with one 50 kW and two 100 kW transmitters.
In 1941, following consultation between the British and Australian governments, a transmitter site in Shepparton, Victoria was selected, in part because of a flat landscape and soil conductivity. In almost 80 years of terrestrial service, Radio Australia has utilised a wide range of transmission facilities for delivery of its programmes to target areas, both from within Australia and from established international broadcasting sites overseas. In September 2017 the Nick Xenophon Team announced it had negotiated a review of the reach of Australian broadcasting services in the Asia Pacific region, including examining if short-wave technology should be used to be included in the Government's Media Reform Bill. The decision attracted criticism from cattle station owners, Indigenous ranger groups and fishermen, who argue it was done without community consultation and would deprive people in remote areas of vital emergency warnings, leading to Nick Xenophon introducing legislation to force ABC to reinstate short-wave radio service. ABC boss Michelle Guthrie was grilled in the Senate Estimates over axing short-wave radio broadcasting in February 2017. ABC's former frequencies were bought by China Radio International, China's national broadcaster. Vanuatu's prime minister, Charlot Salwai, expressed concern, with his country having been helped by the short-wave service during Cyclone Pam in 2015 short-wave transmission is capable of reaching remote islands without FM services, enabling the provision of emergency information and warnings. In January 2017 the ABC terminated its last short-wave radio broadcasts to the Pacific region. Due to financial and political pressures transmissions from Darwin's Cox Peninsula were also shut down in the late 1990s. The Mansfield Review which had led to the cuts also suggested that international television could be supported by DFAT. This move was condemned by newspaper editors (including that of The Australian) and politicians alike, who saw the loss of Australia's ability to wield " soft power" in the region.
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In 1993, the ABC launched its international TV broadcasting, but Radio Australia's budget was cut significantly under the Howard government, causing the closure of its Cantonese, Thai and French services, as well as shutting down the short-wave transmitter to South-East and North-East Asia. During the first Gulf War in 1990/91 the Darwin station provided valuable information and support to expatriate Australians caught in Iraq, and others working in places like Saudi Arabia. Radio Australia had a considerable range of broadcasts to the Asian region in the 1970s and 1980s, and was hugely popular in China, where the only alternative was the state media controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. The transmitter of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) (AWA) near Sydney had 10 kilowatts (kW) of power, and stations VLR and VLW had 2 kW each. However, the ABC's transmitters were much weaker than the Japanese or German services. One of the functions of Australian shortwave broadcasting was to counter propaganda by the Axis powers, particularly that of Japan. Short-wave services from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation was officially opening ceremony by Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies on 20 December 1939. 1.2.5 Shepparton, Vic - Amateur Radio (2020).
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