continuing pressure to increase access to broadcasting by community groups, led the then minister for media to again utilise the wireless telegraphy act 1905 to license 12 such groups with transmission frequencies in both the am radio and fm radio band. as there was some doubt that such licensing was valid under the wt act, given the specifics of the broadcasting act 1942, these 12 stations were frequently labelled by the incumbent commercial broadcasters as cass' dirty dozen. but the new community broadcasters adopted the label with pride.