Difference is Werribee is a fringe suburb that isn’t growing to become Sydney’s second CBD.
The move doesn’t seem to be presented as a cost measure though, which would be a good selling point if that were the case.
The move is in response to the ABC being too Sydney centric - was part of the ABC’s 5-year plans in 2020 IIRC.
This is bullshit.
Have they seen Nine and Seven? Majority of national bulletins from Sydney. Breakfast shows from Sydney…
Meanwhile ABC NB comes from Melbourne. Regional news from Darwin, Afternoon Briefing from Canberra etc… How are they too Sydney centric??
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“The relocation to western Sydney is a key part of the commitment outlined in the ABC’s Five-Year Plan to see 75% of content makers working outside its Ultimo head office by 2025.
Large portions of radio programming also come out of Sydney (Nightlife, Weekend Overnights, Weekend Evenings, RN shows, most of Triple J)
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Insanity, the only way this would make sense if they closed Sydney down and just had a flash studio and an office there and did everything from Paramatta.
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Moving your Sydney staff from Sydney to also Sydney isn’t going to help that. It will make zero change.
Spreading staff/jobs out across the country would have been better.
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Exactly - could do something like move ABC Classic back to Adelaide, or send Triple J up to Brisbane.
I notice the Victorian intro was also tweaked this week to include localised images. I saw a Class Z3 tram on a Melbourne street during last night’s bulletin.
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Or even like certain NC shifts from different cities. Adelaide does mornings, Brisbane does afternoons, Perth keeps doing late, etc.
Or just having editors from/in other cities. Too often networks, ABC included, treat Sydney stories like they are national or assume Sydney is the end of the earth. Often if someone is from Sydney they’ll say they’re in ‘Cronulla’ or ‘Chatswood’ or ‘Auburn’… but if someone is in any location between Gawler and Noarlunga they’re just in ‘Adelaide’.
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They did this during COVID (Afternoons split between Canberra, Melbourne and Brisbane, Weekend Daytime split between Hobart and Adelaide), so there is no reason that they can’t run the NC from every corner of the country.
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Especially given the robotic capabilities, it wouldn’t be hard to just have the presenter somewhere and the control room somewhere else. But we should stop presenting these logical ideas because that’s not what goes around here! 
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exactly.
not to mention most 7pm anchors do only that show, so would get more bang for their buck in these austere times.
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- when they did the weekend bulletins from Adelaide and Hobart, all they did was put the presenter in front of the background screen with a picture of the newsroom. Granted the control room was probably in Hobart and Adelaide then (since they were limiting who came into the Sydney building), but wouldn’t be hard to do again.
Or get the weekend presenters to do some of the shifts as well.
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When did they move the Regional news to Darwin?
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the Regional News bulletin also has more localised images - albeit more generic than one would expect …
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Not sure if its presented from Darwin consistently, but I have seen on numerous occassions that Darwin has presented it.
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ABC to become less Sydney-centric by moving to a different part of Sydney? 
I get the intention but the execution is just insane. A bit like Ten setting up Wake Up in a surf club all those years ago. Good idea in theory, but a costly move for no return.
lol that wasn’t even a good idea in theory though, it was a gimmick.
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Has been presented from Darwin since early-mid 2022 - hosted by Amy Culpitt.
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using this logic could we say that the Regional bulletin could be considered as locally produced content from Darwin? I have honestly no idea because it has been presented from Darwin for some time but it is on the News Channel and it did originally start out in Sydney …
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