The ABC has signed a Heads of Agreement for the Lease for a new workplace at Parramatta in western Sydney.
ABC Parramatta will be located at 6-8 Parramatta Square with the relocation to western Sydney seen as a key part of the commitment outlined in the ABC’s Five-Year Plan to see 75% of content makers working outside its Ultimo head office by 2025.
Audiences can expect to see and hear from their favourite presenters and respected journalists from ABC Sydney, ABC News and ABC RN from early 2024.
ABC Managing Director, David Anderson, says “Establishing this new facility in Parramatta is a significant step in meeting our commitment to be more local and engaged with the community and less centralised in the Sydney CBD.
“As a new facility, ABC Parramatta provides a rare opportunity to build something from the ground up. It will be a home for innovation and collaboration, designed and equipped to help us better serve Australians, now and into the future.”
The final lease agreement for Parramatta Square is expected to be concluded by the end of August.
I don't see the point of relocating ABC staff to Parramatta which does not affect program content.
In a similar vein, I don't see the point of proposals by SBS to relocate staff from Atarmon to Campsie in the Canterbury-Bankstown LGA.
Neither of these proposed relocations would reflect the people living in the Parramatta and Campsie districts. The ABC and SBS is for all Australians not those living in Parramatta and Campsie. That is unless many of these organisations' employees come from the western and south-western suburbs of Sydney.
Thank you
Anthony, of what's the point, Belfield in the land of the Wangal and Darug Peoples of the Eora Nation