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FABC - attacks and plaudits
July 2007 Piers Akerman seeks to discredit FABC
ABC Charter
9 Aug 2003 Changes to ABC Charter – Cause for Alarm
Media Ownership Laws & Issues
16 November 2005 MEDIA MATTERS - Important Public Forum
April 2005 Cross-Media Ownership Rules
October 2005 THE ANDREW OLLE MEDIA LECTURE 2005
28 February 2006 Dead Media?
3 May 2006 OUR RESPONSE TO COONAN MEDIA LAW SELLOUT
17 March 2006 Lack of Public Say on Media Ownership
28 September 2006 CAMD Submission to Senate Inquiry 2006
1 June 2005 Cross-Media Ownership - a building issue
ABC Funding
6th August 2003 ABC Winners will become Losers
1 Nov 2003 The ABC – How Much Should We Pay?
29 September 2003 Coalition Proposals would Kill the ABC
July 2001 ABC Funding - The Facts
1999 Public Service Broadcasters Around the World - McKinsey
April 2003 ABC Triennial Funding : 2003 - 2006
25 May 2003 Federal Budget 2003
April 2004 ABC Fails to meet Responsibility in Arts
4 June 2004 Coming to a screen near you, the ‘Disneyfication’ of the ABC
12 September 2004 Labor commits to ‘significant’ increase in ABC Funding
23 September 2004 The Howard Government is destroying the ABC
7 February 2006 Public's Right to Know
28 February 2005 Radio National under threat
29 January 2006 CALL TO ACTION on Funding and ABC Efficiency Review
May 2008 Where's the $48.1 million?
ABC Board
2003 An Independent ABC Board
December 2002 The "Nolan" Rules - UK’S System of Appointments to Public Bodies
24 February 2005 ABC Board appointment demonstrates Government disdain for ABC
24 March 2006 Abolition of Staff-elected Director
ABC Management
24 May 2002 New MD for the ABC — Important to get it Right
29 May 2002 Welcome, Mr. Russell Balding, Managing Director of the ABC
17 February 2002 Jonathan Shier - Costly to keep and Costlier to Get Rid Of
26 November 2001 Appointment of ABC Managing Director
22 June 2006 Will Mark Scott stand up to ABC Board
ABC Programming
17 February 2004 Loss of ABC Sport to Sydney
5 December 1999 ABC Regional Radio: changes to local program schedule
17 February 2004 Call to Action on Loss of ABC Sport to Sydney
November 2004 George Negus Tonight axed & Gardening Australia uprooted.
June 2004 ABC’s Children’s Programming
22 Dec 2004 Mainly Bouquets for ABC News and Current Affairs
21 July 2006 "Double from Nothing!" ABC TV Drama
Radio Australia
4 March 2003 Radio Australia – ABC International Broadcasting Division
21 Dec 1974 RADIO AUSTRALIA AND SIR ROBERT GORDON MENZIES
24 January 1997 MANSFIELD HIGHLIGHTS GOVERNMENT'S FINANCIAL BLACK HOLE ON ABC: PROGRAMS AND SERVICES TO SUFFER
6 December 2002 Radio Australia - submission by Friends of the ABC
15 August 2002 FABC Position on Radio Australia
6 January 2005 South Asia Tsunami – Radio Australia’s Role
October 2005 Radio Australia - submission by Friends of the ABC
26 September 2005 Call TO ACTION on APTV
Broadcasting Technical Issues
9th September 2002 Audience access to Radio National
February 1998 Proposed Sale of the National Transmission Network
24 March 2005 ABC Media Report (Radio National) on Digital Radio
March 28, 2005 Digital Radio
April 2006 Comment on "Meeting the Digital Challenge"
March 2006 Meeting the Digital Challenge - Reforming Australia’s media in the digital age
FABC Events and Notices
Thursday 13 November 2003 FABC Vic's Annual General Meeting
Nov 2003 Our AGM with Andrew Denton - a great success (13/11/03)
Monday 5 April 2004 ABC Supporters Needed in Droves
20 October 2005 FABC Annual General Meeting 2005
September 2005 FABC Holiday Raffle - Winners
15 February 2006 Is the BBC at Risk Too?
Overseas Public Broadcasters
2 August 2006 Georgina Born Rebirths the Beeb
Trade Agreements Affecting Australian Cultural Institutions
20 June 2002 FABC Submission re Australian Government negotiating objectives related to GATS
20 June 2002 FABC Submission re Australian Government negotiating objectives related to GATS
Political Interference Against ABC Independence
14 January 2003 Australia's Pacific Solution and the ABC's Four Corners - letter from ABC Management
28 May 2002 Stop Political Interference in the ABC
15 April 2002 Michael Kroger Must be Removed
29 November 2002 Peter Reith – Political Appointments Endanger our Democracy
24 October 2003 First the ABC, now SBS
April 2006 Staff-elected Director - no mandate to abolish
April 2006 Proposed Abolition of Staff-elected Director on ABC Board
May 2005 The Elephant Trap: Government-ABC relations during the 2nd Gulf War
Commercialisation at ABC
9th September 2002 Public concern re ABC Commercialisation
1 February 2004 Children's Theme Park - ABC Betrays Public
25 April 2002 ABC Advertising — 'Fix your back'
1 February 2004 Kids' Theme Park - ABC Betrays Public
March 2006 Advertising/Sponsorship on the ABC?
June 2006 Ads on SBS : a Warning for ABC
2 May 2007 Friends Condemn
Current Issues
29 Sept 2003 Daryl Williams AM QC replaces Senator Alston – Will it make a difference?
24 March 2004 Sir Rupert Hamer: Friend of the ABC
April 2004 FABC’s Proposed Policy on the ABC for Political Parties
12 November 2004 The ABC - What it means to me - you - democracy in Australia
September 2004 Labor's New Triple J of Television
20 October 2005 “From The Argonauts to MDA – an ABC Odyssey: Will we ever get back home?
August 2005 SUBMISSION - Human Rights Community Consultation, Victoria
March 2006 The ABC : THE FACTS
Australian Broadcasting Authority
30 April 2004 Professor Flint must Resign/Political Appointments must Stop
Cuts to ABC Sevices
22 May 2007 ABC Axes Talking Books

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