❓ Question on Notice regarding media monitoring services used by the Minister's departments, agencies, boards, or publicly owned corporations. The Minister provided some specific answers but declined to provide comprehensive details due to resource constraints.
AnsweredQoN 1031Legislative Assembly
Asked
22 June 2017
Member
Portfolio
Seniors and Ageing; Volunteering; Sport and Recreation
QuestionView source ↗
I refer to media monitoring services engaged by the Minister's departments, agencies, boards or publicly owned corporations and ask: (a) What company is engaged to provide the service; (b) Is the service engaged on an ad-hoc (keyword, topic etc.) basis or on continual subscription: (i) If engaged on an ad-hoc basis, what are the keywords or topics which are monitored by the service; (c) What media outlets are monitored; and (d) What officers receive the media monitoring results and on what frequency?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
8 August 2017
Responded by
Minister for Seniors and Ageing; Volunteering; Sport and Recreation
Response time
4 days
(a)
Combat Sports Commission : No media monitoring services are engaged.
Department of Local Government and Communities : iSentia
Department of Sport and Recreation : The Department of Sport and Recreation did not engage any media monitoring services in 2016/17.
VenuesWest : DPC media monitoring service only / Google Alerts
WAIS : The Western Australian Institute of Sport does not currently engage a paid service to compile media monitoring activities. WAIS receives daily industry media clippings through the Australian Sports Commission service – Clearinghouse – and specifically to WAIS, through a Google Alerts account.
(b-d)
Words, names, phrases and abbreviations used for media monitoring searches regularly change based on topical issues. To provide information about every agency, department and government-trading enterprise media monitoring contract would require an unreasonable diversion of resources and may incur additional costs, and I am not prepared to allocate the resources required to provide this detailed information. If the Member has a specific request regarding media monitoring I will consider it.
Combat Sports Commission : No media monitoring services are engaged.
Department of Local Government and Communities : iSentia
Department of Sport and Recreation : The Department of Sport and Recreation did not engage any media monitoring services in 2016/17.
VenuesWest : DPC media monitoring service only / Google Alerts
WAIS : The Western Australian Institute of Sport does not currently engage a paid service to compile media monitoring activities. WAIS receives daily industry media clippings through the Australian Sports Commission service – Clearinghouse – and specifically to WAIS, through a Google Alerts account.
(b-d)
Words, names, phrases and abbreviations used for media monitoring searches regularly change based on topical issues. To provide information about every agency, department and government-trading enterprise media monitoring contract would require an unreasonable diversion of resources and may incur additional costs, and I am not prepared to allocate the resources required to provide this detailed information. If the Member has a specific request regarding media monitoring I will consider it.
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