ABC Funding… It’s your ABC – fight for it! 11 May 202113 May 2021 The year’s first major public rally in support of the ABC was held in federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s Kooyong electorate in Melbourne on Saturday night, 8 May. Organised by ABC…
ABC Programs… Ghosts Can’t Sue 2 May 20216 May 2021 The three-part investigation of the 1979 Luna Park Ghost Train fire by the ABC’s Exposed team reminded Jonathan Holmes of the time almost forty years ago when Four Corners took…
ABC Funding… No Google ad dollars for the ABC 6 Mar 202125 Apr 2021 Quentin Dempster discusses potential risks of the ABC entering into precedent-setting commercial relationships with online providers. Will it, he asks, make it easier for any hostile future federal government to…
Alumni Articles 2021: Here we go again! 15 Jan 202125 Apr 2021 If Australians had to make a choice of greater trust between Dr Janet Albrechtsen of News Corp and the IPA or Dr Norman Swan and the ABC, is there any…
ABC Programs… This is the year that was. The ABC in 2020 1 Dec 202025 Apr 2021 It is to the ABC’s credit that despite ongoing budget cuts, debilitating staff losses, attacks from government and right-wing lobby groups, and a dollop of controversy, our much-loved major public…
Alumni Articles… ABC & the digital dilemma: what’s next? 19 Oct 202025 Apr 2021 The ABC has historically been flexible with the technologies it uses to transmit its content to consumers. Today’s technology landscape is changing faster than ever and the ABC must continue…
Alumni Articles… China, media freedom and rebuilding Australia’s voice in the Asia Pacific 30 Sep 202025 Apr 2021 Jemima Garrett and Sue Ahearn of eminent Asia Pacific media group AAPMI argue that if the ABC is to grasp new opportunities it needs to lobby in Canberra with innovative…
ABC Funding… Les Miserables – Killing the ABC in a time of national emergency 16 Sep 202026 Apr 2021 The ABC is rightly proud of the profound trust from audiences evident through the bushfire and pandemic national emergencies, but its paymaster, the Morrison government, has not responded to ABC…
AFP… Committee falls short on media freedom 1 Aug 202025 Apr 2021 The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security published its long-awaited report on “the impact of the exercise of law enforcement and intelligence powers on the freedom of the press”…
AFP… ABC loses AFP raid challenge 17 Feb 202025 Apr 2021 In February 2020 the ABC suffered a crushing defeat in the Federal Court, in its challenge to the validity of an AFP search warrant on its Ultimo headquarters relating to…
