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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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 [...]
ABC should be last broadcaster standing
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 [...]
Inside the overhaul at the ABC
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 [...]
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