ABC operations

? Telstra was a Howard privatisation

Yes forgot Howard was in as PM for so long.

When you review the Telstra saga from its start, Labor is the side that did most to create the problem

Anyway, my point still stands on other privatisations - hardly the domain of only one side of politics.

Fair, anyways to your point, One Nation are entitled to call for the ABC’s funding to be cut and the corporation to be privatised, and I’m also entitled to call them idiots :slight_smile:

Malcolm Roberts stated the ABC was helping Islamic State this morning. These buffoons are in another fucking universe.

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…And I’m also entitled to state how unfair and unreasonable that name-calling out is :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

I’m sure they’ll cope, lest they henceforth be known as snowflakes.

I don’t think they’d mind. That’s more an American hyper-partisan style insult, rather than one from a party run by a lady who’s famous for being down to earth and running a fish and chip shop.

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I checked the One Nation web site to see what was the policy on ABC funding taken to recent elections but mysteriously couldn’t find anything. Also tried to work out what they would be done with the massive windfall - perhaps tax cuts or a social cohesion program but decided they would more likely use the money to fund an inquiry into Islam.:slight_smile: (The site is now down).

The Guardian’s boss of its branded content division Guardian Labs, Aaron Michie, has departed after just one year in the role, and joins the ABC as head of commercial development.

###Calling emerging weather specialists

Do you have a passion for all things weather? Can you communicate complex science in everyday language?
Applications are now open for a dynamic, motivated Senior Reporter and Producer to join our ABC Regional team, to provide specialised weather stories in regional and rural communities across Australia, and make the all-important science behind the weather as accessible as possible to our audiences.

Both positions will be based in regional Australia and will be responsible for initiating and sourcing weather stories and related long-form content for digital and broadcast platforms.
These two unique positions are in addition to the first batch of regionally-based roles that were advertised last week, announced as part of the ABC’s Investing in Audiences strategy.

View full job information for weather roles: Senior Reporter and Senior Producer.

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ABC appoints Helen Clifton as new Chief Digital and Information Officer

ABC Managing Director Michelle Guthrie today announced the appointment of Helen Clifton to the new role of Chief Digital and Information Officer.
Helen joins the ABC with a wide range of skills and experience from a thirty-year media career across the UK, the Middle East and New Zealand. Since 2007 she has played a crucial role at TVNZ in Auckland as Chief Product and Information Officer where she was responsible for major business transformation and delivering the company’s largest technology projects.
Beginning her career in the UK, Helen has held many roles in television production and operations management including studio manager at LWT Granada’s London studios and Director of Operations for Aljazeera English Channel in Doha, Qatar where she led the team that delivered the first HD 24/7 global news channel from four broadcast centres around the world.
ABC Managing Director Michelle Guthrie said “Helen brings a dynamic range of abilities to this role which is vital to the future development of the ABC.
“Like all media organisations, the ABC is undergoing a great period of transformation and is faced with a fast moving technological environment it must stay ahead of so it can remain an innovative and unique source of content.
“It was important from both an audience and an employee perspective that we found a candidate with the unique skills needed for this role and with Helen we have achieved this. We cannot wait for her to join us.”
Ms Clifton said: “The ABC plays a significant role in the lives of Australians and I am excited to be joining and leading a team that will deliver technological change and innovation for the benefit of audiences during a time of transformation in the media industry.”
The ABC’s Chief Financial Officer, Louise Higgins, will continue acting as Chief Technology Officer until Ms Clifton joins the ABC in September.

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###Bruce Belsham to Retire from the ABC

Bruce Belsham, one of the ABC’s most respected editorial leaders and accomplished current affairs documentary-makers, has announced his intention to retire from the ABC at the end of June.

Belsham has been the ABC’s Head of Current Affairs for the past five years, heading Australia’s leading current affairs programs and content across television, radio and digital, including Four Corners, 7.30, Australian Story, Foreign Correspondent, Lateline, AM, PM, Behind the News, The World Today, Insiders and Offsiders.

During a career at the national public broadcaster spanning more than three decades, he has spearheaded the production of a significant body of important and award-winning work, as well as playing a pioneering role in the ABC’s digital services. With Chris Masters, in 1985 he made “French Connections”, the Gold Walkley Award-winning investigation into the role of the French secret service in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. He also produced and directed major series including Power in the Pacific, Frontier, The Liberals, Top Floor and The Vietnam Peace. He was Executive Producer of Four Corners for seven years, leading the program through a series of major stories and investigations while also pioneering its innovative use of broadband and web content.

Belsham said: "I’ve had several different careers during my time at the ABC, across investigative journalism, documentary-making, digital innovation, and senior editorial management, and all of them have been extremely rewarding. However, it is time to move on from full-time management roles and pursue other projects.”

Director, News Gaven Morris said: “Bruce Belsham’s work has been integral to the high standing and success of ABC current affairs and documentary for many years. He leaves the ABC’s Current Affairs team in excellent shape and poised for significant future growth, with its traditional strength as an industry leader in radio and television being successfully expanded across our digital channels to reach new and broader audiences.

“In-depth and investigative journalism has never been more important, and from next week we’ll be seeking a replacement to fill Bruce’s sizeable shoes.”

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Today in the NSW Supreme Court, Senator Hanson’s legal representatives discontinued proceedings against the ABC and she was ordered to pay the national broadcaster’s legal fees.

Finally a smart move by Hanson. Trying to gag the ABC only exacerbates public interest in the story and only underlines how criminially she has run One Nation.

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The ABC has closed a previously-open area of the Ultimo building due to security concerns. The closure will impact the commute of UTS students.

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My Predictions of on air Staff’s Salary;

$375,001-$450,000
Tony Jones, Leigh Sales, Juanita Phillips, Virginia Troil & Michael Rowland.

$300,001-$375,000
Fran Kelly, Julia Baird, Gerard Whateley, Jon Faine, Richard Glover & Chris Uhlmann.

$225-001-$300,000
Robbie Buck, Stan Grant, Wendy Harmer, Paul Barry, Andrew Moore, Phillip Adams Sarah Ferguson, Emma Alberici & Joe O’Brien.

Pro Labor bias again on display at the ABC. The broadcaster is fast losing credibility with the Australian public.

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Mandy Chang departs ABC for BBC

The ABC has announced the departure of Mandy Chang, Head of Arts and Acting Head of Non-Scripted TV, who has accepted a role as Commissioning Editor of BBC documentary series Storyville.

Mandy has been a strong advocate for the Arts during almost five years at the ABC, bringing to screens programs that have shone a light on some of Australia’s most influential and significant cultural figures. She left behind a long and distinguished career as a filmmaker in the UK and Australia to join the ABC first as the Arts Commissioning Editor and then as Head of Arts, and more recently as Acting Head of Non Scripted TV. She has set the vision for both TV Arts and the iview Arts Channel. Some of her recent projects have included David Stratton’s Stories of Australian Cinema, Stop Laughing…this is serious (series 2), and documentary strand Artsville which has recently showcased cultural mavericks such as Mambo, Glenn Murcutt and Harry Seidler. As Head of Arts Mandy has overseen the iview Arts Channel, steering many innovative arts series and instigating initiatives like the Art Bites and Love Bites series’. She has continued to be an advocate for the Hive initiative, which commissions artists to make their first films and which represent the most innovative and risk-taking programming on television with films like Spear and Girl Asleep.

David Anderson, Director Television, expressed the ABC’s great appreciation of Mandy’s work and her contribution to the national broadcaster and the wider arts community. “Mandy has been a fantastic advocate of the Arts and has done an outstanding job of delivering vibrant and engaging content to all Australians over many years. She is highly regarded across the industry and brought a creative and innovative edge to the ABC Arts team. Mandy is taking up a brilliant opportunity and we wish her the very best with this next stage of her career.”

Mandy thanked her ABC colleagues and the high level of work at the ABC.

"Over the past four and a half years I have been at the ABC, I have had the great privilege and pleasure of seeing and engaging with the best of the arts that this country has to offer and of working on an incredible slate of arts programming with some very talented people,” she said.

“I am extremely proud of the work our passionate and hardworking little Arts Department has commissioned, made and overseen. I’m very sad to be leaving the ABC at this exciting and crucial time in its history, but I’m also looking forward to a new challenge.”

Mandy will depart the ABC in September.

This statement is presented as if she was leading the fight for a cancer cure or something.

In other words, she was an “advocate” for removing, involuntarily, more money from Australian taxpayers to produce films to feather her own nest.

The Government doesn’t fund a national supermarket - serious questions need to be asked about why it funds non-core broadcasting services like “commissioning artists to make their first films and which represent the most innovative and risk-taking programming on television”.

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Because the free market don’t and won’t.

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Don’t, and won’t, what? Allow artists to work on their first films? I don’t think so, and even if so - so bloody what! The taxpayer isn’t there to provide work experience to “artists wanting to make their first film”.

The free market don’t provide cadetships to Australians who want to make their first jar of artisanal blueberry jam either - tough luck, it shouldn’t be provided by Government.