Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Games: Clarke and Dawe’s Sydney Olympics mockumentary deserves a gold medal

If you enjoyed the absurdity of Cunk on Earth, it’s worth trying this Australian classic, filled with Seinfeldian nothingness and crap spin doctors

Luke Buckmaster

28, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM

News boss admits ABC has ‘a way to go’ on diversity after Stan Grant criticises election coverage

Q+A host says presenter Jeremy Fernandez was reduced to a ‘cameo’ role on an otherwise ‘entire white panel’

Amanda Meade

28, Mar, 2023 @5:43 AM

Sticking with the union: Billy Bragg joins ABC staff on Sydney picket line

UK singer-songwriter played an acoustic Woody Guthrie song for members of the Community and Public Sector Union taking industrial action

Amanda Meade

22, Mar, 2023 @9:39 AM

Voice referendum question and constitutional amendment could come tomorrow – as it happened

This blog is now closed.

Josh Taylor and Amy Remeikis (earlier)

22, Mar, 2023 @7:38 AM

In Our Blood review – a stirring musical drama about Australia’s Aids crisis

This ABC show is Australia’s answer to the UK’s acclaimed series It’s a Sin – but it doesn’t commit enough to its inherently camp premise

Michael Sun

19, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM

We shall fight them on our pages: Nine newspapers invoke Churchill to defend their Red Alert series | The Weekly Beast

Newspapers’ leadership angrily rejects criticism of China series with insiders saying their efforts were similar to ‘Churchill taking on the Nazis’. Plus: the end of the shock jock?

Amanda Meade

17, Mar, 2023 @1:31 AM

Three things with Indira Naidoo: ‘It seems like a simple thing, but it has changed my life’

In our weekly interview about objects, the ABC host shares a miraculous lost-and-found story, and the toaster gadget she can’t live without

As told to Katie Cunningham

12, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM

Antisocial media: ABC goes on warpath over coverage of Lisa Millar’s misogynist trolls | Weekly Beast

Broadcaster’s new policy to call out online abuse of journalists gets a workout courtesy of the Daily Mail and news.com.au. And did a chatbot write your news?

Amanda Meade

10, Mar, 2023 @1:34 AM

ABC host Lisa Millar reveals anger but also hope after news sites republish ‘foul’ online abuse

Minister for women Katy Gallagher takes media to task for choosing ‘clickbait’ over community responsibility

Natasha May

08, Mar, 2023 @1:10 AM

ABC accuses News Corp and Daily Mail of amplifying misogynist Twitter abuse of Lisa Millar

Trolling of News Breakfast host over her outfit reported by the media outlets with screenshots and abusive tweets

Amanda Meade

07, Mar, 2023 @3:08 AM

Succession, Daisy Jones & The Six, and Weird Al: what’s new to streaming in Australia this March

Plus Jordan Peele and Baz Luhrmann’s latest thrills, a Brigid Delaney adaptation, and … a film about Tetris?

Luke Buckmaster

05, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM

The Australian finds super ‘victims’ among Sydney’s well-heeled – or is it satire? | Weekly Beast

The paper has a case study of the pain to be inflicted by Labor’s higher tax rate on superannuation above $3m, but so does the Shovel. Plus: the ABC’s Mardi Gras ‘indulgence’

Amanda Meade

03, Mar, 2023 @1:49 AM