2SER-FM News and Current Affairs broadcasting will be subject to the station's Charter and Program Policies, and will in particular:

1. Report accurately, interpret, and make intelligent and informed comment.

2. Encourage discussion, debate and exchange of ideas, which contributes to a more informed, educated, co-operative and compassionate society.

3. Adopt a genuinely critical and constructive standpoint on all issues, and encourages or provokes critical thought and analysis by our listeners.

4. Give attention to a wide range of intelligent viewpoints, and especially those under-represented in the media and social decision-making.

5. Combine a global perspective with a concern for national and local issues, and draw connections between these issues wherever appropriate - taking special note of concerns affecting the wider Sydney community.

6. Present news and current affairs material in entertaining and stimulating forms making creative use of the radio medium - including appropriate use of intelligent satire.

7. Present information and raise issues without either overestimating the specialised knowledge of our listeners, or underestimating their intelligence.

8. Emphasise issues rather than action stories; avoid material tending to be purely superficial or sensational; and refrain from sensationalising or trivialising important issues.

9. Be critical of all sources of information, and take all reasonable steps to check the accuracy of information before broadcast.

10. Develop and maintain an independent agenda and priorities, irrespective of those evident in other media.

NOTE: Attention of news and current affairs programmers is drawn in particular to Code 2 of the Community Broadcasting Codes of Practice: Radio as registered by the Australian Broadcasting Authority.

Adopted by 2SER Current Affairs Unit, 17 February 1992.