About ABC Friends
We are a not-for-profit volunteer based organisation with 85,000 members and supporters across Australia. We have operating divisions in all states and territories.
Our Strategy
We advocate to ensure that the ABC remains independent and fully funded to fulfil its role as Australia’s national public broadcaster and media organisation as set out in the ABC Charter.
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Below are some of our latest posts. More can be found under the MEDIA heading on the menu.
ABC Partners with Universities
ABC Press Release July 20, 2023 In the face of declining local media coverage in regional and rural Australia, the ABC will partner with researchers at Deakin and Griffith universities to look at innovative ways in which the public [...]
ABC Radio
The Future of Radio National (RN) Source: ABC Alumni AM radio is on its way to obsolescence. Already, most new cars cannot receive AM, and transistor radios are viewed as relics by many Australians. All the radio networks, with [...]
BBC faces review of ‘unsustainable’ licence fee model
Ministers seek alternatives as half a million stop paying The Times | July 17, 2023 | Steven Swinford, Political Editor The fall in the number of people choosing to pay the licence fee has been blamed on competition and [...]
Acknowledgement of country
We acknowledge the traditional owners throughout South Australia and Northern Territory.
We acknowledge their custodianship of the land and pay respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging.