Bullying the public broadcaster: Threatening the ABC's role

Public broadcasting in Australia has been under sustained attack for around 18-years now, both politically and through reduced funding. Although the Fraser Government (1975-1983) enacted legislation converting the ABC from the old broadcasting commission into a corporation (with its own borrowing a...

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Autor principal: Quentin Dempster
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Publicado: Asia Pacific Network 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/aa4f9db3ea7f495d882b6f8051ef843a
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Sumario:Public broadcasting in Australia has been under sustained attack for around 18-years now, both politically and through reduced funding. Although the Fraser Government (1975-1983) enacted legislation converting the ABC from the old broadcasting commission into a corporation (with its own borrowing and corporate treasury powers), the then Malcolm/Fraser/Doug/Anthony Liberal/National Coalition Government did not seem to hold more than the usual superficial grudges about our current affairs programmes' treatment of some  of their practitioners.