Thank you Ita Buttrose and ABC Board Members

Recent personal attacks against Ita Buttrose and the ABC Board are totally irresponsible and demonstrate that some political players are obsessively hostile to the role of public broadcasting.

ABC Friends welcomes outcome of mediation of recent defamation case

ABC friends has welcomed the outcome of mediation in the recent defamation case initiated against the public broadcaster by the former Attorney General Christian Porter.

ABC Friends visit MPs in Canberra

This week Cassandra Parkinson, Sue Pinnock and Margaret Reynolds spent two days in Parliament House meeting Members and Senators to provide them with important information central to developing Australian public broadcasting policy from 2022-2027.

Freedom of the Press - Senate Inquiry

Appropriately, two redacted blanks surround the title of the Freedom of the Press Inquiry’s report which the Senate Environment and Committee References Committee tabled in Parliament on 17 May 2021.

'IPA misleading the Senate media diversity inquiry' says the ABC

The ABC have claimed that right wing think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs, have misled the Senate media diversity inquiry with "false and erroneous claims”.

Post budget homework for Minister for Communications, Paul Fletcher

This year’s budget has ignored the ABC, but there are opportunities within it to strengthen Australian public broadcasting if the Minister of Communications, Paul Fletcher is prepared to do his homework.