The strange art of making radio. Acclaimed radio poet Robyn Ravlich launches memoirRobyn spent 35 years making features and documentaries for the national broadcaster. Skywriting – making radio wavesis her entertaining, insightful memoir of an award-winning radio career. Robyn was a poet and performance artist before she joined the ABC in the 1970s. Her memoir is a captivating story of contemporary Australian cultural life and a personal biography of an acclaimed ‘radio poet’, giving insight in...

Craig McMurtrie, one of the ABC’s most experienced journalists and senior news executives, has been appointed as editorial director of the ABC.

Australian media doyenne Ita Buttrose will be announced as just the second woman to chair the ABC — ending a five-month search for a new leader for the public broadcaster — after Federal Cabinet met in Sydney on Tuesday and approved her appointment for the next five years.

In trying to defend the ABC as an institutional pillar of a fearless free media in Australia’s robust democracy, first, we have to confront paranoia.It comes in the form of constant Murdoch Press complaints that the ABC is biased and a force for “left wing” ideology. “All the ABC’s presenters are left wing!” columnists and ABC critics have written. I found myself on a recent Monday night (4 February 2019) on Sky News “after dark” being interviewed on the Chris Kenny on Media program. And again ...

In this abridged extract from A Companion to Australian Media (2014) edited by Bridget Foley, Quentin Dempster scans the ABC's history since 1 July 1932 including its struggle for independence and adequate public funding, successful exploitation of mass communication technology and contributions to Australia's creative life and international standing.The ABC began radio (wireless) broadcasting via then available Postmaster-General’s Department transmitters at 8 pm eastern standard time on 1 Jul...