Opinion

The ABC no longer has a purpose, except pleasing itself

The national broadcaster is an icon. But it would work so much better if it was in different hands.

Sinclair DavidsonContributor

Jan 15, 2021 – 12.03pm

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There is good reason why former communications minister Richard Alston may have thought the ABC has a high-quality media of record while growing up in the 1940s and 1950s. For the times, it probably was. But, as Alston pointed out in these pages, those times are long gone.