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Updateaugust 2015 Vol 23, No UpdateAugust 2015 Vol 23, No. 2 Thrice Yearly Newsletter DON’T LET THEM WRECK YOUR ABC Inside Update From the President 2 Badge up! For your ABC 4 Do you feel able to help out at ABC Friends NSW 5 Public broadcasting is under attack 6 Come to our Annual General Meeting 7 ABC, BBC and the future of The ABC is under attack as Programs are being affected and services public service media 8 removed, despite promises to the contrary. Muslims stuck in the never before. middle of an uncivil war 10 Apart from denying Australians exposure to Funding has been cut by $500 million the work of our writers, actors, composers, Voters in blue-ribbon Coalition seats back the ABC 11 (which includes the loss of the Australia musicians, directors and other artists, the Letter to the Editor 11 Network contract). The cuts will opportunity for these talented people to increasingly affect the ABC’s ability to fulfil produce creative work is being strangled. Branch News 12 its charter over the next 4 years unless we BACKGROUND BRIEFING The ABC itself is being downsized and can stop them. - South Australia 16 centralised. The commitment in its charter Obituary - Jill Greenwell 17 Nationally 400 staff have been retrenched, to provide quality, independent and including experienced presenters, ABC shop closures make inclusive programming for all Australians, business sense 18 journalists, researchers and technical staff. including those in regional and rural areas, ABC Management Gets Overseas bureaux have been closed. is basic and must be defended. Closure on its Bookshops 19 We are being deprived of an Australian perspective on world affairs and events. continued on page 4. Update Publication Information Update is published three times a year by From the President Friends of the ABC (NSW) Inc. (FABC), PO Box 1391 NORTH SYDNEY 2059. Printpost approved PP245059/00002 in marginal seats, and provide handbills, To become a member phone THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN (02) 9990 0600 or email to posters, billboards for local use and All members should have received [email protected] material for distribution on social media. the information regarding the National or access our website Please give generously, and encourage www.fabcnsw.org.au. Campaign in defence of the ABC, and others to do so. We cannot consider the Extracts from newspapers and other the Fighting Fund which has been prospect of a further diminished national publications appearing in Update do not established. Recent events, especially necessarily reflect the views of the broadcaster, or Australia without an ABC. surrounding the Q&A program, have led to members of FABC. Update is distributed to all members of unprecedented attacks on the ABC from, FABC, as part of the membership fee. predictably, the Murdoch newspapers THE Q&A FURORE Update is also supplied to journalists, and columnists and, regrettably, elements Many thousands of words have been politicians and libraries across Australia. It is edited and produced in Sydney but of the Government up to and including expended over the Q&A program featuring contributions are welcome from NSW country the Prime Minister. At the same time, Zaky Mallah, and you can read some and interstate branches. the ABC remains highly trusted by the interesting perspectives in this Update, but Material may be quoted or reproduced from Update provided the source is vast majority of Australians (consistently it provided a rather disturbing example of acknowledged and reproduction is sent to 85% approval rating), but this fact will not the fragility of the ABC’s independence and the President FABC. protect the ABC from further cuts by a freedom from political pressure in these Would you like to receive Update Coalition government, nor the pressure to troubled times, and how readily the ABC magazine electronically? privatise and “sell off” parts. Friends aims, buckled under the hysteria created by the Save the planet's trees and The Friends through the campaign, to make the ABC printing and postage costs and read Update Prime Minister, enthusiastically supported magazine on your computer. a major election issue, and to remind all by the minions of Murdoch and right Each quarter, when Update is published, you Australians that a much-diminished ABC wing commentators. 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However, we call on all of freedom of speech and freedom to writing to persons of influence might find it discuss opposing points of view. Surely the helpful to go to the FABC NSW website members of Friends to spread the word www.fabcnsw.org.au where there are some as widely as possible through letter, ABC must always be a forum where such menu items under "Be Active" leading to email, Facebook and word of mouth to discussions can take place. pages of information: Who can I write to? friends, family, work colleagues, clubs, What can I say? Contrast that Q&A program with the more professional and business associations recent one in which that hero of the far FABC (NSW) Executive Committee – please use every network of which you Office Bearers right, Alan Jones, was free to announce, are a member to encourage others to President - Mal Hewitt with his characteristic infallibility, figures on Phone: 02 4751 6227 join in the campaign or contribute to the the cost of wind and solar power which Email: [email protected] Fighting Fund. Ask the question – “What were actually ten times the true figure in Secretary & Treasurer - James Buchanan will YOU miss about OUR ABC?” when it order to support his arguments against Phone: 02 9371 5621 is gone. The cuts of 2014 have meant the Email: [email protected] renewable energy. Where was the outrage loss of programs, networks, local services from Minister Hunt and the Murdoch Membership Secretary - Angela Williamson Phone: 02 4883 4048 and 400 staff, as well as the ABC’s reach journalists at Jones’ wilful misleading of a Email: [email protected] into Asia and the Pacific. Further cuts national audience to suit his own case? cannot be contemplated, and this will Update Editor - Mal Hewitt We are heading into very dangerous PO Box 1391 N. Sydney NSW 2059 be the message to politicians, especially Email: [email protected] territory when Prime Minister Abbott in marginal seats, during the election praises the ABC for its program “The Killing Cartoonist - Phil Somerville campaign. Editorial Cartoonist for The Sun Herald Season,” which exposed the destructive (Sydney) The effectiveness of that campaign will conflict within the ALP during the Rudd/ [email protected] depend on the resources we have to put Gillard years, but demands to know Layout Artist - Paul Martens [email protected] into it. The Fighting Fund will support “Whose side are you on?” when views a media campaign, with the help of critical of government policy are given Membership Line: 02 9990 0600 several high-profile figures, designed to an airing on ABC programs. Our fight put pressure on politicians, especially must always be to ensure that the ABC Page 2 remains above political interference, and in journalism and the media was of great of years. Jill passed away in December is on nobody’s side but that of truth. It assistance in developing strategies in 2014, and I thank husband Tom and Jane was pleasing to hear Managing Director defence of the ABC. The Conference Timbrell (former ACT President) for the Mark Scott provide a strong defence of was an important step towards Friends, moving tribute to Jill which is included in the ABC in his Corporate Public Affairs historically a group of state-based this Update. Oration a few days after the Q&A program organizations, speaking and acting as – “We are the independent home of one, especially as the National Campaign ANNUAL DINNER Australian conversation and culture and grows in strength, and we thank our stories …….. Talking about the things that South Australian hosts for enabling the Cello’s Restaurant, 169 Castlereagh matter …… Helping us understand each conference to take place. St. Sydney is again the venue for the other and this country better …..To help Annual Dinner of NSW Friends of the Minutes and resolutions from the make Australia, Australia ….That’s how ABC on Friday 4th September, where our conference may be found on the website we fulfil our part on the team.” Guest Speaker will be Mark Scott, ABC www.fabcnsw.org.au/fabc/news.php Managing Director. Mark’s contract will The full text of Mark Scott’s address expire in early 2016, when he will have may be found on the website at FAREWELL AND THANK YOU spent ten years at the helm of the ABC, www.fabcnsw.org.au TO GLENYS STRADIJOT ten rather tumultuous and difficult years for the ABC’s MD under four Prime Ministers Motion 8 from the National Conference, ABC SHOP CLOSURES (Howard, Rudd, Gillard and Abbott) and agreed unanimously, reads as follows: and challenging Ministers from Richard The loss of ABC shops in our great “The Presidents of Friends of the ABC Alston to Malcolm Turnbull.
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