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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Supporting the independence of our national broadcasters
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 [...]
Kim Williams National Press Club
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 [...]
Kim Williams-investment and regulation needed to fund Australian stories
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 [...]
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.