The ABC will support more than 200 Australian productions and new content ideas through its $5 million Fresh Start Fund, to help safeguard local content and creativity against the impact of COVID-19.

The fund includes support for new science and history podcasts, radio dramas and new series examining major moments and big ideas that changed Australia and the world.

ABC Radio is currently running, Your Good Vibrations, and calling for happy songs.
 
This is part of ABC’s focus on mental wellbeing, ABC Your Mental Health, 5-11 July and the songs will be played on local radio and used to create an ABC Playlist of happy songs.  
 

ABC Radio's Indigenous flagship program Speaking Out celebrates 30 years of giving a voice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people on the national stage.

The program, which first went to air on 1 July 1990, is the nation’s first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander program produced and presented by Indigenous broadcasters.

Valentine hits back at critics.

The Age is reporting that the ABC has offered hundreds of permanent roles to casual staff even as it prepares to make more than 200 staff redundant because of a budget freeze imposed by the Morrison government.
 
The positions have been offered as the ABC moves toward unveiling its five-year strategic plan, which could be as early as tomorrow.
 

The ABC has today named Sally Sara as the new presenter for radio current affairs flagship The World Today after its long-time host, the highly respected Eleanor Hall, announced she was stepping down from the role.

Sara is an award-winning journalist who has reported from more than 40 countries as an ABC foreign correspondent, including Iraq, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone, and says she is delighted to be taking on the role, “I started my journalistic career in radio and I’m passionate about it.

ABC staff have received an email from Managing Director, David Anderson, asking staff to volunteer for redundancies with more than 200 jobs now forecast to go.
 
The budget cut of $84 million is expected to make severe cuts and Anderson has confirmed that he will outline the response to the looming shortfall by the end of the month, telling staff, "The budget gap of $41 million per annum means that despite our best efforts some of our services will be affected and, regrettably, there will be redundancies.
 

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced ABC managing director, David Anderson, and other executives to take a pay cut.
 
According to the SMH, Mr Anderson told staff in an email Wednesday that, by his own request, he will not only take a 5 per cent pay cut, but will also reject a planned 2 per cent pay increase, and that the reduction will remain in place until September.

With the lights out in theatres and concert halls due to COVID-19, the ABC is bringing the best of the arts home to all Australians with performances by our leading arts and music companies, alongside new radio programs and arts documentaries.