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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...

Posted June 04, 2021 3:38 PM

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...

Posted June 03, 2021 6:37 PM

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...

Posted May 28, 2021 11:19 AM

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...

Posted May 26, 2021 12:15 PM

'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...

Posted May 19, 2021 12:45 PM

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...

Posted May 13, 2021 4:25 PM

Checking the Pulse #8

Welcome to our News Email - Checking the Pulse - providing you with useful and informative ABC Friends News bites....

Posted May 13, 2021 2:21 PM

Western Suburbs of Sydney - First Branch Meeting

The Western Suburbs of Sydney (WSoS) Branch of ABC Friends NSW & ACT is holding its first branch meeting to...

Posted May 12, 2021 4:07 PM

Checking the Pulse #7

Welcome to our News Email - Checking the Pulse - providing you with useful and informative ABC Friends News bites....

Posted April 17, 2021 12:40 PM