ABC Friends present a talk by Dr Gael Jennings

The good, the bad, and the ugly:  Will politics, AI or Murdoch kill the ABC

Ex-Service Club, 6.15pm, Thursday September 7, 2023. 

Dr Gael Jennings is an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne.  An immunologist who studied under the great Australian scientist Gus Nossal, she was the national science and medical reporter for ABC TV News, Quantum and 7.30 Report for ten years, and hosted many other television and radio programs, including SBS Television’s national current affairs program Insight.  She has won thirteen science, technology, health and medical journalism awards, and written a well-received children’s book on the history of medicine. 

Come along and hear Dr Jennings, who continues the tradition of ABC Friends (Northern Tablelands) of bringing to our community world-class journalists to talk from their areas of expertise about the critical role of public broadcasting in Australia.   

Contact Brian Byrne [email protected] for further information.