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News & Views Issue 21 / Autumn 2006
Topics: ABC Changing Heads · Emma Dawson · Bill Garner · Brian Walters
News & Views Issue 22 / Winter 2006
Topics: Budget undermines independence · New MD appointed · Staff-elected position abolished · BBC and US
News & Views Issue 23 / Spring 2006
Topics: Tandberg Talks · The Jonestown Saga · Cross media legislation · ABC Science-a short history
News & Views Issue 24 / Autumn 2007
Topics: Commercials on the ABC · The cost of bullying at the ABC · Silencing Dissent · Donald McDonald's Legacy
News & Views Issue 25 / Spring 2007
Topics: 2007 Federal Election · Prof Alan Knight · ABC3 Children's channel · ABC's 75th birthday
News & Views Issue 26 / Autumn 2008
Topics: Labor Government & the ABC · Robert Manne on the ABC · ABC's first female producer · RIP John Cargher
News & Views Issue 27 / Winter 2008
Topics: Change to ABC Board · iView-ABC's New Net TV · Sir David Attenborough · Ads on the ABC
News & Views Issue 28 / Spring 2008
Topics: ABC cuts to Radio National · ABC Rural · The ABC in 2012 and Beyond
News & Views Issue 29 / Autumn 2009
Topics: Bushfires highlight need for ABC · Terry Norris at the AGM · ABC & SBS Review · Murdoch's ABC
News & Views Issue 30 / Winter 2009
Topics: Budget report · Fairness and the ABC · 40 years of PM · UK Public broadcasting
News & Views Issue 31 / Spring 2009
Topics: Another cooking show · More or less arts · Chris Masters at the AGM · Bill for new ABC board system
News & Views Issue 32 / Autumn 2010
Topics: What's happened to investigative journalism? · Newman on thin ice · News at the ABC
News & Views Issue 33 / Winter 2010
Topics: Danger in public-commercial media pacts · ABC Self-censors · Our ABC Travelling Exhibition
News & Views Issue 34 / Spring 2010
Topics: Do we need the ABC? · ABC Jazz digital radio · Election debates & ABC · Kerry O'Brien leaves The 7.30 Report
News & Views Issue 35 / Autumn 2011
Topics: Gideon Haigh at the AGM · ABC Commercialisation · Twenty years of LNL · ABC International weakened
News & Views Issue 36 / Winter 2011
Topics: Phone hacking scandal · Climate change reporting · US Public broadcasting · Radio National review
News & Views Issue 37 / Spring 2011
Topics: ABC TV Arts unit disbanded · Radio National in 2012 · ABC TV cuts · More than just a game
News & Views Issue 38 / Autumn 2012
Topics: ABC Board appointments · Convergence Review · Gina Rinehart · Christine Nixon on media
News & Views Issue 39 / Winter 2012
Topics: ABC International Development · Local programs · Closed captions · Is the ABC meeting its Charter?
News & Views Issue 40 / Spring 2012
Topics: Radio National Lite · Death of the Dock · Securing the ABC's independence · Fund it or risk losing it
News & Views Issue 41 / Autumn 2013
Topics: ABC Act update · Funding boost · New TV Director · Regional programming decline
News & Views Issue 42 / Winter 2013
Topics: ABC News funding boost · The ABC's enemies · BBC shuts out ABC TV · Matt Peacock on ABC Board · Ramp Up – the ABC is for everyone
News & Views Issue 43 / Spring 2013
Topics: Coalition promise on ABC funding · Bill Peach & TDT a first · Catalyst's heart-stopper report · It's not cricket – ABC loses exclusive cover
News & Views Issue 44 / Autumn 2014
Topics: Rupert wants international broadcasting · Why ABC broke the phone-tap story · Triple j gives birth to older baby
News & Views Issue 45 / Winter 2014
Topics: ABC under threat · International broadcasting slashed · ABC Board stacking ahead · ABC of the past – Pete Smith recalls
News & Views Issue 46 / Spring 2014
Topics: Action ahead · ABC vital to democracy · Will it be your ABC? · ABC axeman appointed to Board
News & Views Issue 47 / Autumn 2015
Topics: Cuts now. More ahead. · Tim Bowden on what's happening · Classic FM eroded · ABC unites Australia
Please note only 2000 and 2005 are currently available.
Background Briefing Autumn 2000 Vol 2 No 1
Topics: Independence · ABC Board · A moral minefield · Media monitor Media Watched · Cash for Content
Background Briefing Winter 2000 Vol 2 No 2
Topics: ABC budget · Digital legislation · Telstra deal & RA · Ken Inglis · History repeats itself
Background Briefing Spring 2000 Vol 2 No 3
Topics: Shier folly · Political interference · Funding for Radio Australia · Neglecting the ABC · No going back for NZTV · Why is the ABC being madeover
Background Briefing Summer 2000 Vol 2 No 4
Topics: Understanding Shier's makeover · Wonderful world of ABC land · Direct arm of government · Responsibility of the Board · Training section dismantled · Radio National, sex & rebellion · Underfunding & Australian Story · Shier faces the music · Lies, damned lies and ratings
Background Briefing March 2005 Vol 7 No 1
Topics: Importance of 4th Estate · Phillip Adams · Cross media ownership laws · Arts coverage reassessed
Background Briefing June 2005 Vol 7 No 2
Topics: ABC today · Minister Coonan & ACMA · Asia Pacific TV up for grabs · PSBs worldwide in danger
Background Briefing September 2005 Vol 7 No 3
Topics: Funding, all downhill · No ABC? It's up to us · Whistleblower bows out · No one does it better