The decision by Stan Grant to step aside from Q+A, after being subjected to shameful racist vitriol, is a wake-up call for all in the media. First and foremost are those who wrongfully singled out Stan to continue a long-running campaign of hysterical snipings about the ABC, and in doing so fed social media trolls with an appetite for deplorable personal invective. Then there’s the ABC management which was too slow to come to his defence. Inevitably, this has come at great personal cost to Stan...
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Month: May 2023
We Don’t Want to Seem Ungrateful, But…
The Federal Budget is in, and the news for the ABC is promising. No more cuts, no more freezes, and some modest improvements. But as Alan Sunderland writes, the biggest problem – the long-term significant underfunding of the ABC – remains.What the Federal Budget means for the ABC
The first thing to say about the 2023 Federal Budget is that it’s a relief not to have a government hell-bent on cutting, freezing and starving the ABC into submission.
There have been a series of positive measures in ...
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