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Melanesian Media Freedom Forum Declaration

The declaration statement made by the Melanesian Media Freedom Forum held at Griffith University in Brisbane, 11-12th November 2019.

Posted November 20, 2019 2:47 PM

ABC Friends go to lobby in Parliament House, Canberra

Next week National President Margaret Reynolds and Vice President Ed Davis will be heading to Canberra to talk with parliamentarians...

Posted November 20, 2019 2:15 PM

Olympic Committee should ask Federal Government to enable the ABC to broadcast the Tokyo Olympics

ABC Friends strongly rejects the statements made by the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC), apparently blaming the ABC itself for the...

Posted November 13, 2019 11:59 AM

ABC Friends NSW & ACT to hold Broadcasting Award & End of Year Evening on November 22

ABC Friends NSW & ACT will be holding an awards night to celebrate great journalistic work in what has been...

Posted November 11, 2019 8:45 AM

Senator Rex Patrick on the Right to Know

Senator Rex Patrick has written an opinion piece in the Canberra Times titled Right to Know: media freedom and Australian democracy...

Posted November 06, 2019 12:11 PM

Why we need to defend media freedom - four speeches from the Tasmanian forum

On Sunday, October 27th, whistleblower, Andrew Wilkie, Senator Nick McKim, former Senator and ABC Friends National President, Margaret Reyonlds, and...

Posted November 02, 2019 4:33 PM

ABC Friends NSW & ACT AGM on Saturday 26th October

The ABC Friends NSW & ACT Annual General Meeting was held on Saturday, 26th October 2019.

Posted October 31, 2019 9:09 AM

ABC releases 2019 Annual Report

Greetings to all our ABC Friends and Supporters. Please be sure to read and celebrate the work of our ABC....

Posted October 30, 2019 5:27 PM

Margaret Reynolds on why we must Defend Media Freedom

This is an excerpt of a speech given by Margaret Reynolds at the 2019 Defend Media Freedom forum hosted by...

Posted October 30, 2019 12:11 PM