26 March 2025 Australia's national and community broadcasters have all received extra funding in the federal budget, delivered by Treasurer Jim Chalmers last night. AFTRS also got some...
25 October 2022 Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivered his first Federal Budget tonight, with benefits for broadcasters in what he called "a solid and sensible Budget" for uncertain...
25 October 2022 The ABC has gained an increase of $83.7m in operational funding and $32m for international services funding across the next four years in tonight's Federal...
29 March 2022 In a pre-election budget, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has promised tax relief, small business benefits and a drop in petrol prices. And what about media? Here...
11 May 2021 Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has delivered the federal budget with a focus on "creating jobs and rebuilding the economy," as Australia continues to recover from the...
6 October 2020 The federal government’s delayed 2020/21 budget, released tonight, is a high spending stimulus plan that hopes to maintain economic activity long enough for Australia to...
5 October 2020 The budget lockup in Canberra will be very different for reporters in the Federal Parliament Press Gallery, thanks to Covid. Normally during budget week,...
5 April 2019 Despite the NEMBC making a strong submission to the federal government recently, there has been no additional funding allocated for the ethnic and multicultural...
15 May 2018 'Hundreds of jobs have been lost.' The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) has launched a campaign in response to the Federal Budget handed down...
9 May 2018 In this week's federal budget, the ABC came out worst off, with a freeze in its indexation funding amounting to a reduction of $84 million...
9 May 2017 Nothing too drastic in the budget outcomes for ABC, SBS, ACMA, NFSA and AFTRS The ABC will lose almost 50 more jobs in the...
12 May 2015 Melbourne Community station SYN is entering the budget lock-up today before broadcasting the federal budget at 9pm on 90.7FM and SYN Nation as well as...
14 May 2014 Steve Ahern explores the implications and options. Now that the Australia Network contract has been cancelled, what are the options for the ABC’s international...
14 May 2014 Advocacy group GetUp has begun a campaign to remind Tony Abbot about his pre-election promise not to cut the ABC or SBS. Following this week's...
14 May 2014 "The Liberal-National Coalition has broken its promise," says ABC Friends national spokesperson Glenys Stradijot. Last night's budget delivered a cut to the ABC’s operational funding...
13 May 2014 Despite repeated commitments from the government before and after the election that funding for the ABC would be maintained, $120m worth of cut sfrom the...
