ABC 90th Anniversary… From Relief Typist to the ABC MD’s Personal Secretary 15 Sep 202215 Sep 2022 One of the most memorable recollections in our recent story about pioneering radio technician Stan Bancroft was his role in organising and co-ordinating the live broadcast of the Apollo 11…
ABC People… Stan Bancroft – pioneering ABC technician 24 Aug 20222 Sep 2022 The ABC’s history is usually dominated by tales of management and on-air personalities, but nothing would happen without the national broadcaster’s extraordinary technical staff. Legendary among them is Stan Bancroft,…
ABC 90th Anniversary… How to persuade a Prince 3 Aug 202224 Aug 2022 Thirty years ago, long before HRH Prince Charles’s interest in organic gardening and farming became widely accepted, Sharon Carleton travelled to the UK for a profile about his brilliant (and…
ABC Independence… The Curious Case of the Missing Managing Director 18 May 202218 May 2022 ABC chair Ita Buttrose has been a stalwart defender of ABC independence, so it’s hard to fathom why she and her directors plan to create a complaints system with an…
ABC 90th Anniversary… Before social media, there was Tim Bowden’s ‘Backchat’ 14 May 202216 May 2022 He’s been called ‘a cuddly koala’, ‘a supercilious clot’, and lots else besides. In this latest story in our series celebrating ABC’s 90th Anniversary, veteran broadcaster Tim Bowden looks back…
ABC Funding… Government must stop wasting time – and urgently support ABC in the Pacific 14 May 202214 May 2022 Policy failure over the last eight years – including a massive cut to the ABC’s international funding – has weakened Australia’s voice in the Pacific to its lowest ebb since…
ABC 90th Anniversary… The Week the ABC Went to Black 21 Apr 20221 May 2022 Governments of all persuasions have never much liked the ABC, and cuts to its budget have occurred with monotonous regularity. With defunding since 2014 now severely affecting programming capacity, ABC…
ABC Funding… IN REAL TERMS, THE ABC IS STILL GOING BACKWARDS 31 Mar 202213 Apr 2022 Dave Sharma, the Liberal federal member for Wentworth in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, is fighting for his political survival against independent candidate Allegra Spender, who supports a well-funded ABC. In a…
ABC Funding… Who Needs the ABC? 29 Mar 202213 Apr 2022 Just released, the long-awaited book by academics Matthew Ricketson and Patrick Mullins – Who Needs the ABC? – is a thorough analysis of the ABC over recent decades and an…
ABC 90th Anniversary… Taim Bilong Tim part 2 24 Mar 202213 Apr 2022 In the 1980s Tim Bowden produced many of ABC Radio’s most outstanding audio documentaries. They were forerunners of today’s podcast genre, and led the way in oral history documentary-making in…
