In 2021 ABC starting receiving payments from Meta (Facebook) and Google to use its content.  With this money it expanded its reporting across many regional areas, but Meta might now pull out of this deal which will mean a loss of reporting in those areas.  For details, read The ABC's Awful Meta/Facebook Dilemma (Quentin Dempster).

“For the ABC, the issue is not just the revenue and its use for local and regional coverage. The tragedy is that if it loses the money there will be no coverage in areas that commercial media have already deserted. ...”