May
Reserve Bank, Future Fund register big gender pay gaps
Money laundering regulator AUSTRAC is a notable exception when it comes to the big financial agencies, reporting no median gender pay gap.
Public sector gender pay gap halves, leaving private sector behind
Women in the Commonwealth public sector earn 94 cents for every dollar men earn, a pay gap more than three times smaller than private sector counterparts.
April
What Kim Williams learnt from being slammed by his staff
After Media Watch blasted his involvement helping performer Austen Tayshus secure ABC interviews, the broadcaster’s boss reflects on a year in the chair.
Peter Dutton is done playing nice with the media
In the final days of the campaign, the opposition leader’s media strategy says more than any press conference could: he is playing defence, not offence.
Dutton rules out superannuation changes, flags big education overhaul
The opposition leader echoed Tony Abbott’s 2013 pledge of not slashing health or education, but indicated the schools would face a major overhaul.
March
Memo to Hugh Marks: DOGE-like efficiency’s the fix for ABC’s news bias
The new managing director forcing the newsroom to operate as productively as commercial rivals would lead to more stories, more views and more angles.
February
ABC’s Pope Playlist imagines there’s no heaven … or religion too
From Ed Sheeran to Adele to Whitney Houston, ABC Local Radio’s internal playlist of “safe” songs to play should Pope Francis die is surprising.
ABC’s legal bills exceed $1m in Antoinette Lattouf case
The ABC’s acting managing director has revealed the price it paid to defend its position that it did not unlawfully sack the journalist.
‘Incoherent’ impartiality rule used to oust ABC host
Legal counsel for Antoinette Lattouf said the broadcaster’s claims that an Instagram post by her breached impartiality guidelines had no foundation in any policy, procedure or legislation.
‘Activist’ Lattouf should not have been hired, says Buttrose
The former ABC chairwoman denies causing Antoinette Lattouf to be dismissed, despite forwarding complaints and suggesting an “easy exit” through feigned illness
ABC chief people officer assures staff: Races exist!
Will someone tell ABC chairman Kim Williams that when you’re explaining, you’re losing?
Lattouf’s social feeds included antisemitic content, says ABC boss
David Anderson tells court he was concerned that the position taken by Antoinette Lattouf on social media would play out when she was on local radio.
ABC boss concedes ‘step missing’ in removing Lattouf
Giving evidence ABC managing director David Anderson said he has ‘no problem’ with the statement Australia is a racist country because ‘it is based in fact’.
Anxious Lattouf ‘self-medicated with alcohol’ after ABC dismissal
Journalist Antoinette Lattouf’s psychiatrist testified that being let go by the national broadcaster over social media posts worsened her vulnerable condition.
‘We have an Antoinette issue’: Buttrose, execs discussed pulling host
ABC managing director David Anderson was concerned about a “barrage of complaints” about presenter Antoinette Lattouf’s stance on Gaza war.
January
Former Foxtel chief executive Peter Tonagh to join Nine board
The businessman has recently left the ABC board, where he was deputy chairman. His appointment comes amid a broader overhaul of the media group’s management.
Robbie Williams calls ABC ‘twits’ after movie promotion criticism
The English pop star held a surprise performance in Melbourne, where he lashed the public broadcaster for criticising him for promoting his new biopic.
‘Jack The Ripper was fake news’: meet the woman challenging the past
Ahead of a new series of her ABC hit Lucy Worsley Investigates, the historian warns that “story telling is a dangerous thing” – especially for those not telling them.
December 2024
Former Nine boss Hugh Marks to lead ABC
The executive who pulled off the broadcaster’s merger with Fairfax and helped lobby for big tech to pay for Australian content starts his new job in March.
ABC to get $126m post-election funding injection
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland will also seek to make law the five-year funding agreements Labor committed to at the 2022 election.