Welcome to our News Email - Checking the Pulse - providing you with useful and informative ABC Friends News bites. Below you will find links to interesting reads/webinars, online events coming up and ABC TV productions you may enjoy.
Welcome to our News Email - Checking the Pulse - providing you with useful and informative ABC Friends News bites. Below you will find links to interesting reads/webinars, online events coming up and ABC TV productions you may enjoy.
Informative Reads
- Why you'll soon need to have an ABC account to use iview
When it was launched as Australia's first internet television service in 2008, ABC iview was somewhat ahead of its time. That is no longer the case and it is making a change to keep up with other streamers. Read the full story
- Important Budget Announcement
The ABC seems to now be completely excluded from policy thinking and funding. This week's budget implications story for our ABC here. Please join us in spreading the word that we must SAVE OUR ABC!
- News from Queensland
An ABC Friend was at the Brisbane Writers Festival recently and attended a session on books written about floods. Jamie Simmonds, who wrote a book on the Grantham flood in Qld, where people were killed and the town subsequently relocated, said the ABC was there throughout the disaster and the recovery and that it clearly cares about community.
A VERY IMPORTANT on-line event sponsored by ABC Friends SA/NT. Please put this in your diary and share with your family, friends and colleagues. The broadcast can be viewed on 10 June and if you miss it - available later from the Hawke Centre site.
DISINFORMATION:
A TOXIC MIX OF MEDIA, POLITICS, AND VESTED INTERESTS
THE HON KEVIN RUDD AC
IN-CONVERSATION WITH QUENTIN DEMPSTER AM
THURSDAY 10 JUNE 2021, 6PM - 7.15PM, ACST
ONLINE EVENT
Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and ABC Friends, SA/NT
More event info including registration details here
You are able to submit questions when you register for the event.
Interesting ABC Programmes to catch up on
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Take a trip across regional Australia with this collection of stories from shows like Back Roads, Outback Ringer, The Pool, and Quoll Farm. More info here
On behalf of your 2020-2021 Committee
Sue Pinnock - President
Sandra Coopman - Secretary
Mihir Makwana - Treasurer
Roselie Copley, Andrew Johnston and Tina Phillips - Committee Members