After the much-publicised $26.1 million cuts the Australian Broadcasting Corporation management made on August 5, federal communications minister Richard Alston has hinted at allowing it to raise funds through things like telethons
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Attacking public media and people's access to voices other than its own is part of the Coalition government's systematic campaign of suppressing free speech and democratic rights. Example one: The new anti-terrorism laws are now
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Denied funding by the federal Coalition government to adequately sustain the national broadcaster for the next three years, Australian Broadcasting Corporation management on August 5 announced funding cuts of $26.1 million to
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A mutiny by his hand-picked senior managers at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has sealed the fate of Australia's self-styled "mini-media mogul", managing director Jonathan Shier, who resigned at the ABC's board meeting on
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is stuck in the middle of a very nasty global trend: with publicly-funded media increasingly under financial and editorial threat from hostile governments, important alternatives to the
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With an eye on countering a rural backlash, the federal Liberal-National government has announced significant telecommunication policy backflips in the May 22 budget. As well as committing itself to not sell off the
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Public calls for the sacking of ABC managing director Jonathan Shier, chairperson Donald McDonald and the whole ABC board are growing. If the national broadcaster is to be saved from the oblivion the Coalition clearly wishes to