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Supporting the independence of our national broadcasters

2024-12-17T15:39:28+10:302024-12-17|About the ABC, Digital Media, Independence, Public Media|

Minister for Communications The Hon Michelle Rowland MP Media Release Monday 16 December, 2024 The Albanese Government is affirming the independence of the national broadcasters with additional ongoing funding for the ABC and the announcement today of its commitment to legislate five-year funding terms for the ABC and SBS. The Government will deliver additional funding to the ABC of $83.1 million over 2 years from 2026-27, followed by ongoing funding [...]

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Kim Williams National Press Club

2024-12-08T22:31:50+10:302024-12-08|About the ABC, Independence, Public Media|

Address by ABC Chair Kim Williams AM National Press Club 27 November 2024 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It is a pleasure to be back at the National Press Club. After an absence of more than a decade, it is welcome to catch up with old friends and colleagues and hopefully to make new ones. I commence by offering acknowledgement to the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, the traditional custodians on these ancestral lands and [...]

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Kim Williams-investment and regulation needed to fund Australian stories

2024-11-08T18:56:32+10:302024-11-08|About the ABC, Digital Media, Public Media|

ABC News | Hanna Story | November 6, 2024 ABC chair Kim Williams says investment is needed to fund the production of Australian stories, as he also calls for the ABC to be "aggressively, consciously ambitious" in its storytelling. In a wide-ranging conversation with Screen Producers Australia (SPA) CEO Matthew Deaner, which streamed on Facebook Live today, Williams said the formula for meeting Australia's creative ambitions is a mixture of investment [...]

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ABC should be last broadcaster standing

2024-08-12T12:39:19+09:302024-08-12|About the ABC, Digital Media, Independence, Public Media|

New chair Kim Williams says ABC should be ‘last broadcaster standing’ & News Corp’s criticism is ‘unbalanced’ The Guardian | August 11, 2024 | Amanda Meade: Former News Corp CEO says Murdoch company’s obsession with the public broadcaster is ‘fairly unhinged’ and should largely be ignored. Kim Williams, the current chair of the ABC, wants the organisation to be “the last broadcaster standing” and one of his first acts has [...]

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Inside the overhaul at the ABC

2024-08-09T17:01:14+09:302024-08-09|About the ABC, Digital Media, Independence, Public Media|

The Saturday Paper | December 23, 2023 |Scott Mitchell Six months into a landmark restructure, with more staff leaving and show cancellations mounting, there are increasing doubts over whether the ABC’s strategy to secure its future with a younger audience can succeed. The national broadcaster’s internal ructions found strong public resonance this month with the axing of The Drum. For some viewers lamenting the demise of the current affairs panel show, [...]

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Remaking The ABC

2024-07-31T11:36:35+09:302024-06-28|About the ABC, Public Media, Social Media|

Editorial:  Remaking the ABC | The Saturday Paper | June 26, 2024 When Kim Williams wants to make a point, he looks a person dead in the eye. He does not shy from confrontation. He does not blink. In his first major speech as chair of the ABC, Williams has articulated a strident vision for the national broadcaster. It will be bigger, smarter and more willingly self-critical. Williams is not afraid [...]

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The Conversation – Kim Williams

2024-06-23T11:05:52+09:302024-06-23|About the ABC, Digital Media, Independence, Public Media, Social Media|

ABC chair Kim Williams calls for public broadcaster to be ‘national campfire’ and to understand its audiences better June 19, 2024 Misha Ketchell  – Editor New ABC chair KimWilliams has said the public broadcaster should become a reimagined “National Campfire”, fostering a stronger sense of community togetherness and conversation in a world increasingly fragmented by social media. Williams also said the ABC must understand its audiences better and warned [...]

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ABC Chair ‘areas for improvement’

2024-06-20T13:35:38+09:302024-06-20|About the ABC, Digital Media, Independence, Public Media, Social Media|

The Guardian | Amanda Meade | June 19,2024ABC has ‘areas for improvement’ but can be force for ‘togetherness’, broadcaster’s chair says In wide-ranging speech, Kim Williams says digital age has led to ‘fragmentation’ at the ABC and warns against ‘insidious and dangerous’ ideas of censorship ABC chair Kim Williams has outlined his vision for the ABC as a cultural force for national cohesion in the face of threats from the [...]

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The ABC of craven capitulation

2024-06-04T13:42:50+09:302024-06-04|About the ABC, Independence, Public Media, Social Media|

www.theshot.net.au The Shot | By Jo Dyer June 3, 2024 It’s ironic that the Sydney Writers’ Festival event at which Laura Tingle made what has become a bizarrely infamous comment about the pervasive racism of Australian society was a live version of the Insiders we used to have when we used to have nice things on the ABC. Back when David Speers was safely sequestered as one of the saner [...]

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Laura Tingle’s statement

2024-06-02T13:20:25+09:302024-06-02|About the ABC, Independence, Public Media|

ABC Posted 29 May, 2024 Statement by Laura Tingle, 7.30 Chief Political Correspondent For much of the past two weeks, the political debate has focused not on the federal Budget but on the Leader of the Opposition's budget reply in which he pledged to cut migration to deal with the housing crisis. I have written and broadcast on this decision and its implications on ABC platforms numerous times since then. [...]

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