ABC cuts are unpopular, but are they essential for future survival?
The national broadcaster’s axing of 120 jobs last week came as a shock, but it points to challenges the organisation can’t avoid.
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The national broadcaster’s axing of 120 jobs last week came as a shock, but it points to challenges the organisation can’t avoid.
Exclusive: Program hosted by David Speers bucks trend of declining audiences for broadcast TV, according to internal documents
"It’s crucial we adapt," says ABC News boss as around 40 existing roles go including its Political Editor.
Three people went prospecting in the West Australian outback — only one came home. Now the family are taking the investigation into their own hands.
She was once dubbed 'Australia's worst serial killer', after the deaths of her four children. But now, Kathleen Folbigg is a free woman, after spending two decades in jail. In a miscarriage of justice case reminiscent of the wrongful conviction of Lindy Chamberlain, the NSW Attorney-General has pardoned the 55-year-old after new scientific evidence emerged. Today, ABC Background Briefing reporter Rachael Brown on Kathleen Folbigg's freedom and what it says about the judicial system. Featured: Rachael Brown, reporter, Background Briefing, ABC Radio National and ABC...