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... "With the community broadcasting sector not being classed an emergency broadcaster, like the ABC is"... except there is no such thing ... the ABC has called itself an "emergency broadcaster" since 2007 when it set the then one-man department up in Adelaide, commercial and community stations also provide appropriate broadcasting in emergencies ... in fact the Victorian state government publishes a list of "emergency broadcasters" that includes all of them ...