Geoff Heriot is a former Australian broadcasting executive and strategist, a foreign correspondent and journalist, with extensive Indo-Pacific regional experience.

His is a timely and important intervention, for in bringing light to this aspect of the nation's media history, Heriot also speaks deftly to the pressing security concerns facing Australia today.[…] Heriot’s work speaks to both historical matters and present-day concerns. In doing so, it has a lot of insight to offer to Australian historians as well as those interested in Australia’s contemporary security and diplomatic challenges —Australian Outlook

• List of Figures; Foreword by Geoffrey Wiseman; Acknowledgements; One Introduction; Two Media and the Contest of Ideas; Three International Broadcasting and Its Discursive Properties; Four Mobilising ‘Softer’ Power in a Hard World; Five Australia’s ABC: State Interests, National Evolution; Six Purpose, Performance and Evaluation; Seven Modernising the ABC; Eight Policy, Priorities and Qualified Independence; Nine Engaging with Intercultural Audiences; Ten Indonesia, the Crucible; Eleven Strategic Contingency and War; Twelve Looking to the New Disorder; Index

Geoff Heriot is a former Australian broadcasting executive and strategist, a foreign correspondent and journalist, with extensive Indo-Pacific regional experience.

His is a timely and important intervention, for in bringing light to this aspect of the nation's media history, Heriot also speaks deftly to the pressing security concerns facing Australia today.[…] Heriot’s work speaks to both historical matters and present-day concerns. In doing so, it has a lot of insight to offer to Australian historians as well as those interested in Australia’s contemporary security and diplomatic challenges —Australian Outlook

• List of Figures; Foreword by Geoffrey Wiseman; Acknowledgements; One Introduction; Two Media and the Contest of Ideas; Three International Broadcasting and Its Discursive Properties; Four Mobilising ‘Softer’ Power in a Hard World; Five Australia’s ABC: State Interests, National Evolution; Six Purpose, Performance and Evaluation; Seven Modernising the ABC; Eight Policy, Priorities and Qualified Independence; Nine Engaging with Intercultural Audiences; Ten Indonesia, the Crucible; Eleven Strategic Contingency and War; Twelve Looking to the New Disorder; Index