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ABC to retain Australia Network

The saga over Australia’s international television service
has ended. Senator Conroy, Minister for Communications,
has announced that AN will become a permanent ABC service.

Minister Conroy’s media release

Friends of the ABC’s media release

FABC on Australia Network:

Friends of the ABC's letter to Kevin Rudd

Friends of the ABC's letter to Kevin Rudd
Friends of the ABC's letter to Cabinet
Friends of the ABC's letter to the media

Eminent Australians oppose ABC Arts cuts

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Tim Winton, Nick Cave, Betty Churcher, Geoffrey Rush and
Elizabeth Ann Macgregor are among a group of local artists
who are dismayed and outraged at ABC management’s
decision to chop Art Nation, the ABC’s sole TV arts magazine
program, and disband the national broadcaster’s TV arts unit.
Media Release
Open letter to the ABC Board from 66 Prominent Australians

Christine Nixon

On

'the media's role in public life'

Transcript to be released soon.

The disappearing public broadcaster

FABC's media release The ABC staff say... FABC’s Submission

ABC Outsourced

Since Friends of the ABC wrote to the ABC, the ABC has
promised to include only one television production studio
in its Victorian redevelopment - in place of three existing
studios which will be lost. It has given no commitment to
meaningful levels of ABC in-house production.
FABC's letter to the ABC Board Report in The Australian

The Bill for a New ABC Board

Friends of the ABC supports the Government's Bill
for a new ABC Board appointment system, and thinks
it could be strengthened to meet its aims.
Friends of the ABC's Submission to the Govt's Inquiry