Open AccessBullying the public broadcaster: Threatening the ABC's role
Author(s) -
Quentin Dempster
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v10i1.788
Subject(s) - corporation , treasury , legislation , government (linguistics) , project commissioning , commission , publishing , broadcasting (networking) , public broadcasting , political science , public administration , law , computer security , philosophy , linguistics , computer science
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.