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In the month leading up to the 2010 federal election, more than 15,427 emails were sent from people visiting the SaveOurSBS.org website to politicians across all Parties. The emails asked government to increase public funding for SBS and amend legislation to stop the disruptive breaks into programs on SBS-TV. The Greens promised to do that. Labor implied that in a different economic climate it might place advertising restrictions on SBS.

What Each Party Will Do With SBS: Election 2007

The SBS policies of each party explained:

What are the policies of the political parties about SBS funding and advertising on SBS?

Save Our SBS wrote to the each of the major political parties requesting them to tell us their party policies on SBS for publication on www.SaveOurSBS.org.

We asked a series of questions covering SBS funding and advertising. We wanted to know whether or not each party had a policy to ban all advertising on SBS; or, insist that SBS restrict ads to between programs only; or, leave the current arrangement of allowing SBS to continue

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