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Big Brother Australia
Presenters and Shows
Gretel Killeen
Host
Big Brother Live Eviction 2001-present
Big Brother: Adults Only

previously Uncut

 2006

2001-2005
Big Brother Nominations 2002-present
Special shows 2001-present
Mike Goldman
Voice over
Big Brother shows 2001-present
Host
Big Brother UpLate 2003-present
Friday Night Live 2005-present
Bree Amer
Host
Friday Night Live 2005-present
Ryan Fitzgerald
Host
Friday Night Live 2005-present
Tim Ferguson
Host
The Insider 2003
For the Big Brother award pertaining to privacy, see Big Brother Award (Australia).

Big Brother Australia is a reality television series produced by Endemol Southern Star and shown on Australian television network Network Ten. A number of contestants from throughout Australia live in an isolated compound in Dreamworld, Queensland, known as the 'Big Brother House', where their daily lives are recorded and broadcast on national television. Housemates try to avoid being evicted through a public vote, with the aim of winning a large cash prize of up to $1,000,000 AUD at the end of a series.

Australian television presenter and author Gretel Killeen hosts Big Brother Launch shows, Evictions, Nomination shows, and all other special shows; with Mike Goldman as the series voice-over, and UpLate and Friday Night Live host. Previous seasons have aired on New Zealand television channel TV 2, but Big Brother 2006 was only aired in Australia.

Contents

[edit] Big Brother Australia summary

Big Brother Australia is based on the international Big Brother series produced by Endemol in the Netherlands. The show's name comes from George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopia in which Big Brother is the all-seeing leader. The series generally constitutes 14 or more contestants who live in an isolated house for several months. Housemates are at all times under the control of Big Brother, a rule enforcing authority figure who monitors behaviour of the housemates, set tasks and punishments and provides the mechanism for contestants make external requests. Housemates are filmed 24 hours per day with edited highlights broadcast during prime time slots, and late night footage broadcast live. Live footage is also broadcast via the Internet using Internet streaming. Housemates must remain in the house, and avoid being evicted by viewers of the show with the aim of winning a substantial cash prize at the end of the series. In order to support the housemates' emotional well-being, all participants have access to the Big Brother psychologist Carmel Hill at all times. After the series, housemates are required to attend regular promotional appearances around Australia at nightclubs in most capital cities.

[edit] About the series

[edit] Prize money

The eventual winner of Big Brother Australia receives a cash prize as a reward for being the longest lasting housemate in their series. In Big Brother 2001, Big Brother 2002, and Big Brother 2003, the cash prize stood at a guaranteed $250,000 AUD, without inclination of the fines system. In Big Brother 2004, the prize money was raised to a guaranteed $1,000,000, without inclination of the fines system. Big Brother 2005 and Big Brother 2006 both continued to offer the $1,000,000 prize money, however, with the introduction of the fines system, the winner of Big Brother 2005 received $836,000 in prize money. The winner of Big Brother 2006 received $426,000.[1] Housemates in Big Brother 2005 and Big Brother 2006 were given opportunities to regain lost prize money in special Friday Night Live events named The Prize Fight.

[edit] Fines

Big Brother 2005 introduced a fines system in which the $1,000,000 AUD cash prize is decreased by $5,000 each time a housemates violates a Big Brother rule.

Various things Housemates can be fined for include:

  • Speaking without a microphone
  • Speaking in a language other than English (or in code)
  • Discussing the pre-production process, including auditions
  • Speaking about Nominations, including who a housemate had nominated after the nominations have been revealed or after eviction
  • Speaking about previous series; previous housemates; or Big Brother series of other countries, past or present
  • Not following Big Brother's instructions
  • Writing
  • Singing commercial songs
  • Attempting to contact the outside world
  • Speaking over Big Brother
  • Not referring to Big Brother as Big Brother

Following the first week of Big Brother 2006, the Punishment Room was revealed, where housemates would sometimes be sent for punishment additional to the $5,000 fine.

[edit] Secret Nominations

A fundamental and strongly-enforced rule of Big Brother Australia is that nominations, and the use the Three Point Twist, are not to be discussed at all. Specifically, all housemates are forbidden from disclosing who they have previously nominated, who they plan to nominate in the future, or who their Three Point Twist has been used on; and they must not engage in conjecture about who may attract nomination votes and why. These discussions are banned and are deemed collusion by Big Brother, as they may give housemates a competitive advantage. Breaking this rule incurs fines, punishment, or loss of the right to nominate in the following round.

[edit] Intruders

Every series of Big Brother Australia has included "Intruders": new housemates added to the house by the show's producers as an on-going housemate after the series has started.

[edit] Location

The purpose-built Big Brother house/studio is located at Dreamworld, a theme park attraction in Coomera - a suburb of the Gold Coast. The interior of the house is rebuilt between TV seasons (Jan-Apr). Filming runs from Apr-Aug. The House is open for inspection Aug-Dec each year. When not in use for filming, Dreamworld visitors can take self-guided tours through the House and the camera runs, and have a photo taken in the famous Diary Room chair. While the exterior of the House is nothing more than a white tin shed, the interior is a fully functional house that is home to over 20 contestants on the show for 14 weeks each year. The interior walls are lined with two-way mirrors allowing dozens of cameras to capture every angle of the house.

Only slight modifications were made to the house for the second season and the special Celebrity Big Brother Australia series that were conducted in 2002. Subsequent to those seasons the House has either been rebuilt or extensively re-modeled for each new series. In some seasons the house has been re-configured mid-series revealing previously hidden additional function rooms or private areas. Two houses were built for Big Brother 2003, and they were merged 23 days into the season when previously hidden connecting rooms were revealed.

Footage from the house is monitored and edited in Dreamworld Studios 24/7, an open-air auditorium where live audience orientated shows such as Evictions and Nominations are staged. During the series, Dreamworld visitors can tour the stage and watch the production team, Southern Star Endemol at work and also view live footage from the house.

The auditorium that is now part of Big Brother Studios was an existing facility at Dreamworld a long time before Big Brother began, and was used for live stage shows. It is now leased to Endemol/Southern Star for the duration of the series each year. The current contract gives Endemol Southern Star use of the Studios and Big Brother House until 2009.

[edit] Theme music

The theme is titled Big Brother theme, and was adapted from the original theme used in the first ever series of Big Brother, aired in the Netherlands. The theme for Big Brother Australia was written by Siew Ooi and 001 Productions in Melbourne. The track is an extended version of the main title theme used in the first two seasons of Big Brother Australia, and tracks heard throughout the seasons that followed are shorter, remixed versions of this track. The original track can sometimes be heard in the background when eviction votes, or the nomination tally in the Nominations show, are shown on screen, or when eviction phone numbers are announced during a show.

The title theme was initially released as a single. The track was an extended mix of the main title theme used in the first two seasons, and was released with an acoustic "Diary Room" mix and more trance influenced "Eviction" mix. It barely scraped in the top 50, but was re-released a few months later where it reached #12 on the ARIA charts in 2001 with a B-Side of The Sirens' hit "Don't You Think That It's Strange", which was also co-written by Big Brother 2001 housemates; the Diary Room mix; and an extended version of the Big Brother Uncut theme.

[edit] Shows

During each series, specific elements of the competition have a special show dedicated to them, usually presented on a specific evening. Each weeknight and on Sunday evenings a compilation of the general events in the House for the previous day are presented. All live shows are broadcast with a thirty second delay so that images or language that cannot be broadcast due to Australia's censorship laws can be omitted. These programs add up to approximately 16 hours per week. No Big Brother shows are broadcast on Saturdays.

[edit] Launch

The first episode of the Big Brother series that introduces the new housemates and the Big Brother House for that year. Launch shows are broadcast live. The first episode of the season was in 2006 titled Launch; in previous years it has ran under various other titles such as Opening Night and In They Go. Hosted by Gretel Killeen.

[edit] Daily Show

The Daily Show is aired every weekday at 7:00 p.m. (30 mins duration) and most Sundays at 6:30 p.m. (60 minutes duration). It reports on the previous day's happenings in the House. Sunday editions cover the preceding Friday and Saturday. Narrated by Mike Goldman.

[edit] UpLate

Big Brother: UpLate is a late-night show screened every weeknight throughout each Big Brother series. The show begins usually at either 11:00 p.m. or 11:30 p.m. and is hosted by Mike Goldman. The show was first introduced with Big Brother 2003. The show features live footage from the House; interviews with evicted housemates; and brain teasers where viewers attempt to solve challenges such as word games, and may phone in for a chance to win $1000 AUD. An online stream was made available for the 2006 season at QuizTV.com.au specifically for viewers in states that do not receive UpLate live on television (i.e. South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory), enabling them to enter the competitions. It was possible for this stream to be viewed by those outside of Australia.

[edit] Nominations

Big Brother Nominations is aired on Monday evenings after the Daily Show. Nominations airs footage of the housemates as they each decide in the Diary Room who they would like to nominate for eviction. In the first series of Big Brother, there was no special show for nominations; they were simply shown as a part of the Daily Show on Tuesday evening. Housemates also did not have to give reasons for their nominations during the first season. Nominations were not live during Big Brother 2005, but the announcement of who would be up for eviction was.

Housemates each have three points to appoint to two other housemates. Their first nomination appoints two nomination points to a housemate, the second gives another housemate one point. If Big Brother feels a housemate's nomination is not clear and consise, he can give the nominating housemate one point. The three housemates with the highest number of points are revealed to the House. In the case of a third place tie, all those tying for third place would be eligible for eviction, on these occasions more than three housemates would be up for eviction.

An innovation introduced in Big Brother 2005 was the Three Point Twist whereby the winner of Friday Night Live must subtract three nomination points from one of the nominated housemates. If they themselves are included in the original lineup of potential evictees they may opt to subtract the points from themself. This occurs after the initial nominations have been announced to all housemates, and while housemates may not discuss which housemate they remove points from, where the line-up changes it is often clear which housemate has had their nomination points deducted. The three housemates with the highest number of nomination points after the Three Point Twist will face eviction. Again in the case of a third place tie, more than three housemates may be up for eviction. The Three Point Twist got its name as part of a sponsorship deal with KFC.

[edit] Eviction

Housemate evictions occur in a program titled Big Brother Live Eviction. The housemate who has attracted the most viewer votes to evict is evicted. The eviction shows are televisied each Sunday night at 7:30 p.m. Australian Eastern Standard Time. Actual proceedings start a short time before 7:30 p.m. in front of a live audience at Dreamworld. These shows are hosted by Gretel Killeen and are broadcast live. In this show usually one housemate, but occasionally two, is evicted from the house, usually at around 8:00 p.m.. Shows that feature two evictions are called Double Eviction. The first Australian Double Eviction, described in advertising hyperbole as a world first, took place during Big Brother 2002.

Big Brother 2006 added the save vote, allowing viewers to vote to save a housemate as well as evict; in the final tally housemates' save votes and evict votes are merged.

In Big Brother 2004, after the eviction of Bree Amer due to a vote-counting error, a special eviction was held on the following Thursday evening. In this special eviction the housemate to actually receive the most votes, Wesley Denning, was evicted. A representative of the auditing company that manages eviction votes and compiles the results appeared on the second eviction to explain how the error occurred.

[edit] Friday Night Live

Big Brother Friday Night Live is a live show hosted by Mike Goldman and former Big Brother 2004 housemates Ryan Fitzgerald and Bree Amer, showcasing a live housemate games competition conducted in an arena attached to the Big Brother compound. The housemate evicted the previous week sometimes makes a guest appearance on the show. The show was introduced with Big Brother 2005, aired on Fridays at 7:30 p.m..

The winner of the overall games is rewarded with three prizes:

  1. Two nights in the rewards room with a fellow housemate of their choice,
  2. Assigning the chores for the week (eg. Shopper/Chef, Farmhand, Housekeeper, Gardener), and
  3. Removing three nomination points from a housemate who is nominated for eviction.

With the return of Big Brother 2006, Friday Night Live also returned. A fourth prize was added for the winner, they are presented with three boxes, each containing a prize, and may choose one box, not knowing what any of the boxes contains. The three boxes are themed on a specific country, and the three boxes featured a holiday to that country after the conclusion of the competition, a privlege that may be used within the house (such as laundry services or a special dinner), and a booby prize. Booby prizes have included a bow tie and a chunk of Camembert cheese.

On one occasion the three boxes were replaced with a special prize where the winner was allowed to go on an excursion outside the Big Brother House to Tiger Island at Dreamworld, where they were treated to a feast and a tiger show. They then had the entire park to themselves for a night. The winner on this occasion was Gaelan, who invited Krystal to share in his prize. On a second occasion, the winner of Friday Night Live, Jamie, was given the four usual prizes, and a fifth "mystery prize". The prize involved Jamie and the person he invited to the Rewards Room, Chris, leaving the House to get a first go on FlowRider, a new ride at Dreamworld.

The Friday Night Live format was reused in the Network Ten spinoff series Friday Night Games which began in February 2006 and ended before Big Brother resumed for 2006. This weekly program is also filmed at Dreamworld, and features two teams of celebrities (who are joined by members of the public) to compete in a series of games. The program was again hosted by Goldman, Amer, and Fitzgerald.

[edit] Finale

The Finale of Big Brother Australia is normally a big event conducted in front of an audience at Dreamworld and broadcast live on television, for as long as three hours. In all Australian series the Finale features footage from the final day in the house, by which time there are only two housemates remaining, culminating in the announcement of the winner. Usually the runner-up leaves the house in the manner of an evicted housemate, and is interviewed by Gretel Killeen on stage. Later the winner is asked to leave the house, finally joining Gretel on stage as well. The final two housemates of Big Brother 2004 and Big Brother 2005 left the House together, and were on stage with Gretel when the winner of those seasons was announced. Big Brother 2006 returned to the original format where the winner is announced while the final two housemates are in the House, and they both left separately.

Previous housemates of the season sometimes put on a musical or dance performance. Hosted by Gretel Killeen.

[edit] Uncut / Adults Only

Originally named Big Brother Uncut, and renamed Big Brother: Adults Only for Big Brother 2006, this program showcased adult content from the Big Brother House unsuitable for the early evening Daily Show. This mainly consisted of footage of the housemates showering, general risqué behaviour, and discussions about sexual matters. Each episode was one hour long. During the early seasons of Big Brother it aired at 9:30 p.m. on Thursday nights. It later switched to 9:30 p.m. Monday nights, and then 9:40 p.m. Monday nights. It was rated MA15+ (Mature Audiences - 15 Years or older), and hosted by Gretel Killeen.

The 2006 series of Big Brother: Adults Only ended early after politicians warned Network Ten that its screening of the show could harm its push for media reforms.[2][3] The last episode of Adults Only was aired on 19 June 2006.

[edit] The Insider

Big Brother The Insider was a half-hour Friday evening panel show hosted by Tim Ferguson during Big Brother 2003. Panellists were various comedians and television journalists, and usually the housemate most recently evicted would also be on the panel.

[edit] Saturday

Big Brother Saturday was a one-hour long show aired on Saturday evenings during Big Brother 2001, with Gretel Killeen presenting an overview of press discussions of the series that week, interviews with fans, and footage of what evicted housemates were up to. The show featured little actual footage originating from the Big Brother House itself. This show did not return after the first series, largely because Network Ten acquired the rights to televise Saturday night Australian Football League games after the first series of Big Brother ended, with these telecasts taking the show's timeslot.

[edit] Sponsorship and Criticisms

The show attracts major sponsorship from large Australian telecommunication companies hoping to gain promotion from the many telecommunications tie-ins during the series. Sponsorship deals have also included the naming rights to the bigbrother web site domain name. bigbrother.com.au redirects to the URL currently in use. URLs previously used are bigbrother.3mobile.com.au (2005-2006), bigbrother.ten.com.au (2004), bigbrother.optus.com.au (2003), bigbrother.iprimus.com.au (2002) and bigbrother.com.au (2001).

In 2004, Nicorette Patches, used to stop smoking, was a major sponsor for Big Brother. Sara-Marie Fedele, a previous housemate from Big Brother Australia was the major promoter of the product during advertisements.

Big Brother also receives substantial grants from the Queensland tourism board.

Other major sponsorship comes in the form advertising space and product placement. Uses of product placement have included:

  • During Big Brother 2001, a preview of The Secret Life of Us that was shown to the housemates late in the first series. The Secret Life of Us, another Network Ten program, was preparing to make its premiere immediately after Big Brother 2001 had ended. The housemates' seemingly ingenuine positive reaction to the new show was aired during a Daily Show.
  • During Big Brother 2003, housemates were given a task to count a large bowl of M&M's, a major sponsor for the series.
  • During Big Brother 2004, the entire backyard of the house was filled with snow, to tie in with a special viewing of the film The Day After Tomorrow.
  • During Big Brother 2005, housemates were required to take Tango dancing lessons and were treated to a special viewing of the film Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Other 20th Century Fox tie ins included a "favourite fantastic four" housemates competition, linked to the Fantastic Four film. In one episode, approximately ten minutes of the UpLate show focused solely on the use of a mobile phone which had been provided by one of the show's major sponsors. Almost all food products in the house came from a food company with commercial agreements with the show production company. Any food that did not have a sponsorship agreement had its label removed.
  • The use of 3 video phones was heavily emphasised during Big Brother 2006, with housemates having short video calls with friends at their Eviction with Gretel; housemates sometimes being given the opportunity to see something that's happened on the outside world from inside the Diary Room; and evicted housemates being given two video phones, as well as money and a holiday, as prizes for being in the Big Brother House. A winner of Friday Night Live and the person he invited to the Rewards Room were also provided with an EyeCam - a wireless mobile webcam that can be viewed from a 3 phone via a video call - so that two new replacement housemates that had entered the House near the end of the series could "have the Rewards Room experience" from the Diary Room. After this, EyeCams were given as an additional prize to evicted housemates.

Many other criticisms are aimed at the program including:

  • Home viewer competitions not being open to the residents of South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia due to timezone differences. However this has been rectified with a new competition in the 2005 series called Hammer Down which enables all residents of Australia to enter. In 2006, there was a new website which enabled South Australia, Northern Territory, and Western Australia viewers to participate with live streaming of UpLate over the web. The site was www.quiztv.com.au
  • Telephone costs associated with housemate evictions.
  • The content of its Uncut shows, which during the 2005 series was said by some commentators to border on pornography, with graphic depictions of masturbation (the girls used a hose in the sauna to "get themselves off"), constant nudity, and mistaken allegations that one male housemate rubbed his penis in a female housemate's hair. These criticisms were even made by Federal Government Parliamentarians led by Trish Draper.
    • In two separate findings, the Australian Communications and Media Authority determined Network Ten breached clause 2.4 of the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice. These two breaches were in relation to the broadcast of Big Brother Uncut on 30 May, 13 June and 4 July 2005. The Broadcasting material was not classified according to the Television Classification Guidelines.[1]
  • The advertisement content of UpLate, particularly during the 2005 series. The show featured increasing numbers of premium charge SMS and telephone competitions. On some nights less than half the show was footage from the house.

[edit] Complaints about Uncut / Adults Only

[edit] Big Brother 2005

The fifth (2005) series of Big Brother was heavily promoted with a "sexy" theme. This series emphasised young, good looking housemates who were willing to have relations in public. The actions of the housemates gave rise to complaints from politicians and conservative family groups.

The following instances of Uncut footage gained the most publicity during the 2005 series:

  • On Day 4 during a birthday party for housemate Michelle, many of the housemates had a game of "spin the bottle" in the spa while drunk. The game featured same-sex kisses.
  • Many of the male housemates casually told racist jokes until viewers complained and producers put a strict ban on racist language.
  • Housemates Michelle and Glenn spent a night in an isolated room and bathed together naked. Endemol Southern Star released a press statement suggesting the couple may have had sex. It was later revealed they did not.
  • Housemate Michael massaged housemate Gianna's shoulders while standing closely behind her and exposing his penis.
  • Some of the male housemates created a crude song about scat sexual fetishes.

Following complaints by the Australian Family Association, parliament member Trish Draper voiced her concerns over the show's influence on children.[4] The story was quickly scooped up by mainstream media and rival commercial networks Seven and Nine, who used the opportunity to launch attacks against their competition. Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Helen Coonan quickly followed the complaints with a formal letter to Network Ten.

Shortly after show producers removed the "Uncut" section from the official Big Brother website, with a statement that the removal was to appeal to the show's broad audience. This part of the site is now only available to fee paying "Premium" members.

After the 2005 series concluded, further complaints prompted the Australian Communications and Media Authority to launch an investigation into Big Brother: Uncut.[5] The main complaint was that Network Ten had breached the industry code of practice by broadcasting footage that went past the maximum MA15+ rating for Australian commercial television. The ACMA found Network Ten had breached the code on two occasions: the airing of housemate Michael massaging Gianna with his penis exposed, and the song about sexual fetishes.[6] The ACMA did not impose any direct punishment on Network Ten, however outlined requirements for the 2006 series of Uncut. Included in those requirements is a commitment by Network Ten to compile show footage far enough in the future so that censors can edit it if necessary. Two censors were taken on by the network specifically for Big Brother, and crew were trained on the restrictions of the MA15+ television rating. The show was renamed Big Brother: Adults Only for the 2006 season.

[edit] Big Brother 2006

Though the 2006 series of Adults Only was toned down in comparison to the previous year, it still attracted some controversy. Following pressure from government backbenchers Network Ten ended the run of Adults Only several weeks early, announcing on 23 June 2006 that Big Brother: Adults Only had "completed its season run" [2]. Ten then made the Adults Only video packages that were going to be shown on televised broadcasts available on a new section of the Big Brother 2006 website, named Adults Only, and available only to Big Brother Premium members.

[edit] 2006 alleged sexual assault controversy

See also: Big Brother Australia 2006 - Controversy

On July 1, 2006 two housemates, Ashley (real name Michael Cox) and John (Michael Bric), were removed from the house for allegedly sexually assaulting a female housemate, Camilla Halliwell,[7] in a season of the series that had already attracted significant controversy. Following the incident the live feed was temporarily replaced by an old UpLate update of the housemates completing their football task, continuously looped[citation needed], and the forums on the Big Brother website were removed. Queensland Police were shown the relevant footage, but opted not to conduct a criminal investigation.[8] Subsequent to this incident former housemate Rita Lazzarotto reported that she had been subjected to a similar incident during her time in the Big Brother house in the 2005 series.[9]

Australian Prime Minister John Howard asked for Big Brother to be cancelled, saying, "Here's a great opportunity for Channel 10 to do a bit of self-regulation and get this stupid program off the air"; Leader of the Opposition Kim Beazley and Senator Steve Fielding supported this view. Queensland Premier Peter Beattie argued that the show employed many Australians in production and that, because of the already diminished size of the Australian television industry, the show should continue.[10]

[edit] Big Brother: Unseen/Uncut/Unreel

Big Brother: Unseen/Uncut/Unreel
Big Brother: Unseen/Uncut/Unreel cover
DVD by Southern Star Endemol
Rating M15+
Region 4
Length 167 minutes
Label Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment

Big Brother: Unseen/Uncut/Unreel is a DVD that was released on July 8, 2003, during Big Brother 2003. It was rated M15+ (currently known as M due to its nonrestrictive nature), which means that the DVD requires a mature perspective, however there is no legal restriction on access.[11] The DVD is broken down into three sections.

Unseen
This section of the DVD has footage of Carlo Marino of Big Brother 2003's Eviction and the Big Brother 2003 Launch, titled In They Go, both viewable from multiple angles. The section also has a package about how Big Brother Australia is put together, and speaks of the different people involved in the production of the show, and also provides technical information on the equipment used.
Uncut
The Uncut section of the DVD features clips from Big Brother Uncut; speaks of how television censorship laws of different countries that have Big Brother seasons differ to Australia's; footage of the audition process; and a package where Peter Abbott, the voice of Big Brother for the first three seasons, was "Big Brother'd" for a day, where a camera followed him from the time he woke up to when he went to sleep.
Unreel
The Unreel section has information on the first three seasons' housemates, including Big Brother 2003's housemates' introduction packages shown at In They Go; an image gallery with information on what the 24 original housemates of the first two seasons were doing at the time of the DVD's release; and an interactive tour of Big Brother 2003's Houses before and after they were merged.

[edit] Notable former contestants

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Jamie wins Big Brother The Sydney Morning Herald. Published on July 31 2006, URL last accessed on October 8 2006.
  2. ^ (June 23, 2006). Ten shuts Big Brother - Adults Only. The Courier Mail. URL accessed 4-7-06.
  3. ^ (July 3, 2006). Big Brother in bigger bother. The Age. URL accessed 4-7-06.
  4. ^ Nude Big Brother upsets Australia BBC News. Published on June 21 2006, URL last accessed on October 8 2006.
  5. ^ 'We're sorry': BB The Sydney Morning Herald Published on June 22 2005, URL last accessed on October 8 2006.
  6. ^ Report: Investigations No. 1557, 1558, 1559 Australian Communications and Media Authority. Published on October 5 2005, PDF last accessed on October 8 2006.
  7. ^ (July 3, 2006), Big Brother in bigger bother. The Age. URL accessed 4-7-06.
  8. ^ (July 3, 2006). Police rule out BB probe. The Age. URL accessed 4-7-06.
  9. ^ (July 4, 2006). Big Brother should be axed, says PM. The Herald Sun. URL accessed 4-7-06.
  10. ^ Australian Associated Press (2006). Axe 'this stupid program': PM. Retrieved July 3, 2006.
  11. ^ The Office of Film & Literature Classification Published on June 2 2003, URL last accessed on September 3 2006.

[edit] External links


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