The ABC has lost one of its foremost champions. Matt Peacock – co-founder and inaugural chair of ABC Alumni, former ABC staff-elected Board member and a journalist best known for his pivotal role in pursuing corporate corruption and the deadly truth about asbestosis – died this week, aged 72. This tribute has been prepared by colleagues Helen Grasswill and Quentin Dempster who worked with Matt both at the ABC and later in the formation of the Alumni.Great journalism is often born of an obsessiv...

A recent study in the Australian Journal of Education found that in Australian high school science courses, there was only one unique mention of a female scientist. Radio National’s The Science Show has long tried to herald the contribution of female scientists.  But as Sharon Carleton discovered, it can take for some, 50 years before due recognition is acknowledged. In this case, the daughter of a Nobel Prize winner. The stars aligned. After years of trying to get someone, somewhere to tell th...

More than 80 per cent of Australians are now getting their information and content from American social media and video streaming services. It’s impacting on the number of Australian stories we see and hear as well as damaging what has been a vibrant Australian film, radio and television industry. The Albanese Government is stalling on its decision to regulate Australian content on streaming platforms and local producers and advocates are worried that the lobbying power of the streaming giants ...

Journalists and broadcasters rightly view a career at the ABC as a professional pinnacle, from which the idea of life after Aunty can seem an unlikely possibility. After 30 years in journalism, Kirsty Nancarrow became a teacher, businesswoman and author. That transition took her from an ABC newsroom in tropical north Queensland to the Himalayas with the help of a former child slave who was determined to better his community. Richard Dinnen chronicles Kirsty’s post-ABC  journeyIn her 15 years wi...