Utzon: Finding the master architect

Posted on September 29, 2023 by Peter Marks

The Sydney Opera House is celebrating its 50th anniversary this October. It has become an international cultural and architectural icon visited by millions. Yet its Danish creator, Jorn Utzon, never set foot in his completed masterpiece. The construction of the opera house was mired in controversy and bad blood forcing Utzon to leave the project and Australia in 1966. Reporter Anne-Maria Nicholson recalls the world exclusive interview with the banished architect that she obtained for the ABC in...

ABC Alumni Submission to Review Into the National Broadcasters’ Independence

Posted on September 2, 2023 by Peter Marks

5-year funding periods are all very well, but what’s to stop a new government that gets elected half way through a funding term tearing up the agreement and starting again? It’s an issue the Albanese government, which has introduced 5-year funding for the ABC and SBS, is well aware of.A second issue that concerns the government is that the process for selecting ABC and SBS Board Directors on merit, introduced by the Rudd and Gillard governments, has proved easy to circumvent by ministers who wa...