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David Speers

July 2023

ABC director of news, analysis and investigations Justin Stevens (left) with managing director David Anderson at Senate estimates.

Less than 8pc of the ABC’s flagship news viewers are under 40

And more than 70 per cent of the audience for Insiders and Q&A are over 55, leaked data shows. The broadcaster has been scrambling to pursue younger audiences.

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  • Mark Di Stefano

May 2023

Stan Grant speaking at the Sydney Writer’s Festival last week.

Inside the Stan Grant fracas at the ABC

The crisis has consumed the public broadcaster, which now faces bitter criticism from critics and within.

  • Mark Di Stefano
ABC Insiders will now air from Canberra.

ABC’s Insiders moving to Canberra

As of July 9, the ABC’s Insiders, hosted by David Speers, will be staying firmly inside the beltway with a shift to Canberra.

  • Myriam Robin

July 2021

Delayed delivery

Inarticulate leaders in a policy muddle

The vaccine shambles is an example of what happens when the ultimate authority in the government are the opinion polls.

  • Laura Tingle

March 2021

Publisher Louise Adler

Adler’s Rolodex draws a political crowd to Monash launch

True to form, the prominent publisher has once again commissioned several politicians to put pen to paper.

  • Myriam Robin
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November 2020

Samantha Maiden was suspended, then resigned from Sky News over bullying allegations.

Samantha Maiden the expert on poor workplace behaviour

Political journalist Samantha Maiden is the last person who should be sitting in judgment of workplace behaviour.

  • Joe Aston

October 2020

Scott Morrison and Xi Jinping meet on the sidelines of the G20 Osaka summit in 2019.

China is opening the door. Will Australia walk through it?

The Financial Review's interview with a top Chinese diplomat would have been approved at the top. The Morrison government is obdurate if it does not take up the gesture.

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  • Geoff Raby

July 2020

I'd rather be effective than liked: Christopher Pyne

Forging a new career after 26 years in Canberra, the former Liberal minister is out to show he's no institutionalised career politician.

  • Ronald Mizen

February 2020

"He is forensic": Buried in Josh Frydenberg‘s Insiders interview was the fact since 2005, Australia’s emissions have declined by 13%. Canada’s have declined by just 2% and 'woke' New Zealand’s emissions have actually increased by 4% in the same period.

Liberals must be the commonsense climate party

The Morrison government must better sell its sensible message on climate action - and ridicule Labor's virtue signalling and the Greens' extremism that would destroy the economy.

  • Alexander Downer

September 2019

Granted the Australian media's one interview with Donald Trump, Paul Murray asked the President, no kidding, "have you had a good day?"

Sky News squanders Trump exclusive

News Corp campaigns solemnly for press freedom, then sends a bona fide halfwit to confront the leader of the free world.

  • Joe Aston

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