19 March 2020 The ABC has delayed planned job cuts that were scheduled to be announced later this month, due to the increased workload caused by the Corona...
11 March 2020 In the midst of the growing conceen about the Corona Virus, ABC RN’s Norman Swan and colleague Tegan Tailor have launched a podcast that examines the...
5 March 2020 Across this week, in front of a 300 plus ABC studio audience in Melbourne, host Libbi Gorr along with panellists Virginia Trioli, Nadine Garner, Indira Naidoo, Geraldine Hickey and Vika...
5 December 2019 The Department of Communications and the Arts (DOCA) has released its Review of Australian Broadcasting Services in the Asia Pacific, almost a year after it...
13 November 2019 ABC Radio will not be covering the Olympics next year, due to cost pressures. For the first time since the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, the ABC...
18 October 2019 Similar to the age old question of what came first the chicken or the egg, when we think of podcasting, we can ask the same...
9 October 2019 Aidan Laverty has been appointed Head of Specialist at the ABC. He will oversee content across radio, tv and online in the genres of arts,...
21 August 2019 Judith Whelan has replaced Michael Mason as Director of ABC Regional & Local. In this role she runs most, but not all, of the ABC’s radio...
13 August 2019 “The ABC thinks national security is important and we are not proposing that we be above the law,” said David Anderson, fronting the national broadcaster’s...
12 August 2019 The Parliamentary Committee inquiring into security issues after the recent raids on media is sitting today in Sydney to discuss the issues raised by media...
6 August 2019 Communications Minister Paul Fletcher has re-introduced legislation which would create a regional advisory council for the ABC to reflect on the views of local communities. The...
30 July 2019 Independent Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie gave a talk this evening in Parliament House Canberra about independent media. Wilkie, a former army officer and intelligence analyst in...
30 July 2019 The police raids on the ABC “were an extraordinary act,” according to the national broadcaster’s Managing Director David Anderson. Anderson was in Canberra preparing to lodge...
26 July 2019 The Government has released the ACCC’s Digital Platforms Inquiry final report that, amongst other topics, has looked at the relationship between news media businesses and...
14 July 2019 The ABC has written to Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton asking for any police action into two of the broadcaster's journalists to be dropped, but...
11 July 2019 Judith Whelan has been confirmed as Director of ABC Regional & Local, replacing Michael Mason. She has been acting in the role since Mason retired last...
3 July 2019 Retired Gold Coast journalist Ross Thompson has revived his 40-year search for a copy of his radio call of the first State of Origin match...
11 June 2019 The ABC Chair, Ita Buttrose, has met with PM Scott Morrision to discuss the recent raid on ABC headquaters at Ultimo by the AFP. No...
7 June 2019 ABC Chair, Ita Buttrose has expressed her concern about the AFP raid on the Ultimo headquarters of the broadcaster, and has sought an assurance from Minister...
27 May 2019 2018 recipient of the AFTRS/ABC Selwyn Speight scholarship, Pariya Taherzadeh, has produced a feature for the ABC’s History Listen called Escape from Iran. She was awarded...
12 May 2019 Speaking at a pre-election event yesterday in Melbourne, jointly organised by ABC Alumni and ABC Friends, ALP leader Bill Shorten said, “The Liberals have to...
4 May 2019 The community and public sector union (CPSU) has begun a campaign urging voters to consider party positions on the national broadcaster in their electoral choice...
3 May 2019 David Anderson has been confirmed as the ABC's new Managing Director. He had been acting in the job since Michelle Guthrie left.
8 April 2019 Veteran reporter Sean Dorney has given his name to a $10,000 journalism grant, to be awarded annually by the Walkley Foundation commencing in 2019. The Sean...
4 April 2019 The Acting Managing Director of the ABC, David Anderson, has written to staff telling them that despite extensive requests from the ABC, the Budget papers...
17 March 2019 The ABC’s Director of News, Analysis & Investigations, Gaven Morris this week spoke with Peter Fray on 2SER’s Fourth Estate program. He discussed the ABC’s independence,...
12 March 2019 ABC staff in the national broadcaster's Sydney headquarters have been warned to beware of people tailgating them through security, after an incident where an intruder...
7 March 2019 The Shadow Minister for Communications, Michelle Rowland, says Labor has committed to reversing the Liberals’ $83.7 million cut to the ABC, as well as guaranteeing...
6 March 2019 Comment from Peter Saxon When Ita Buttrose was confirmed as the ABC’s new chair one of her first statements was, “I’m a passionate believer...
6 March 2019 David Anderson is this afternoon appearing before the Senate, Environment and Communications References Committee into allegations of political interference in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The...
