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ABC Chair Kim Williams during an interview with AFR media and marketing reporter Sam Buckingham Jones at the ABC Headquarters in Ultimo, Sydney on June 10, 2024. Photo: Dominic Lorrimer

Frequent flyer Kim Williams racks up $50,000 travel budget

The ABC chair has been vocal and active since landing the top job last year. And that means plenty of taxpayer-funded travel.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman, Stephen Brook and Gemma Grant

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Comedian Austen Tayshus (left) and ABC chair Kim Williams.

‘Not my friend’: Kim Williams lashes Austen Tayshus amid fresh scandal

Two months after Media Watch exposed the comedian’s use of Williams’ name to pressure ABC staff to give him air time, more correspondence has been revealed.

  • Calum Jaspan
Antoinette Lattouf addresses the media after her win in the Federal Court of Australia on Wednesday.

Antoinette Lattouf has won $70,000, but her case has cost the ABC so much more

Wednesday’s judgment brings an ugly chapter to a close. But for the ABC, the real work is just beginning.

  • Karl Quinn
ABC chair Kim Williams and ABC managing director Hugh Marks.

Media Watch’s Kim Williams take-down hands a win to ABC boss

The controversy with comedian Austen Tayshus has allowed the public broadcaster’s managing director Hugh Marks to step out of the shadows and make his presence felt.

  • Calum Jaspan

I thought Kim Williams was the wrong pick to lead the ABC. Now I’m sure

The ABC’s chair has intervened to get airtime for a small-time comic. Is this what Kim Williams is doing with his time?

  • Jenna Price
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ABC staff label Kim Williams ‘arrogant’ over comedian imbroglio

ABC’s Media Watch has taken the public broadcaster’s chairman, Kim Williams, to task for allegedly labelling some regional staff “arrogant” and pressuring them to give a comedian airtime.

  • Calum Jaspan
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Kim Williams enjoying himself at the Melbourne Press Club.

Why Kanye West and Elon Musk slid into the ABC chair’s DMs

Outspoken ABC Chair Kim Williams has attracted critics from far and wide.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Kim Williams, pictured at a Melbourne Press Club event on Thursday, where he gave a keynote event on his first year as chair.

‘Game on’: Kim Williams welcomes Dutton’s ABC funding review

Any efficiency audit under a Coalition government would be the 16th since 2001. Its chair tells Peter Dutton to bring it on.

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Former ABC radio presenter Antoinette Lattouf exits the Federal Court.

‘Derision in his voice’: Lattouf calls out Kim Williams, says she self-medicated after dismissal

Under cross-examination on Tuesday in her unfair dismissal case against the ABC, Antoinette Lattouf alleged the public broadcaster had continually lied about and defamed her.

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Former ABC journalist Antoinette Lattouf arrives at the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney on February 03, 2025. Photo: Flavio Brancaleone / The Sydney Morning Herald

Antoinette Lattouf v ABC LIVE updates: Unfair dismissal case resumes in Federal Court; former presenter rejects claim she was told not to post on social media

Antoinette Lattouf’s unfair dismissal case against the ABC is back in court for a second day.

  • Calum Jaspan

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