About our investigations

We publish our investigation reports to explain:

if there is a complaint, what it is about
when it happened
the relevant rules
what we found when we investigated

For lists of older reports, consult our Annual reports available on the Analysis & Policy Observatory website. Each quarter, we also publish a summary of actions we have taken on broadcasting.

To access older investigation reports please contact broadcasting@acma.gov.au.

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Year

Issue

Accuracy and impartiality

Findings

Breach of Standards 2.1, 2.2 and 4.4

No breach of Standards 4.1 or 4.5 of the ABC Code of Practice 2019

(ref BI-622)

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BI-622 - Investigation report: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) [docx, 193.29 KB]

Issue

Privacy

Findings

Breach of standard 6.1 of the ABC Code of Practice 2019

(ref: BI-624)

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BI-624 - Investigation report: Australian Broadcasting Corporation [docx, 92.75 KB]

Issue

Privacy

Findings

Breach of the licence condition at paragraph 7(1)(h) of Schedule 2 to the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 [use of broadcasting services in the commission of an offence]

(ref: BI-608)

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BI-608 - Investigation report [docx, 141.41 KB]

Issue

Captioning

Findings

No finding in relation to subsection 130ZZA(4) of the BSA due to insufficient information available for the program.

Breach of paragraph 130ZZD(2)(b) of Part D of the BSA due to failure to keep audio-visual records sufficient to enable the assessment of the licensee’s compliance with its captioning obligations to be readily ascertained.

Breach of paragraph 7(1)(o) of Schedule 2 to the BSA due to the licensee not meeting its record-keeping obligations.

(ref: BI-629)

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BI-629 - investigation report DWTS [pdf, 170.02 KB]