ABC Friends Blue Mountains — ABCFBM is a branch of ABC Friends NSW & ACT supporting our ABC

Ita Buttrose says intensifying campaign against ABC contains ‘malicious garbage’

Here is a report from The Guardian about a recent address by Ita Buttrose to the Ramsay Centre: article from The Guardian

It was also reported in the SMH: article from the Sydney Morning Herald

The video of her address is available on YouTube, courtesy of the Ramsay Centre.

Blue Mountains Branch ABC Friends AGM – Saturday 28 November 2020

The Annual General Meeting has been booked for Saturday, 28 November 2020.
Please note that this is the 4th Saturday instead of our usual 3rd Saturday of the month.

The venue is the Grand View Hotel, Wentworth Falls commencing at 10.00 am.

Members have been sent an email with details of arrangements for the meeting.

Les Miserables – Killing the ABC in a time of national emergency by Quentin Dempster

Click here for Quentin Dempster’s article. This link will take you to a page on the ABC Alumni site. For their whole site, click here.

Some documents to help get the facts out there.

Here are some links to documents circulated by Cassandra Parkinson, NSW/ACT Friends Committee Member.

Please distribute these documents widely.

A fair ABC Budget – message to Paul Fletcher and Josh Frydenberg

A fair ABC Budget

Dear Josh and Paul,

Our ABC Funding must be prioritised! The past years emergencies have made this more obvious than ever!

Did the Director of Media Incentives suggest you support overseas media even though we have an active fair and balanced ABC that you keep cutting Funding from? (This has been fact checked!)

The Budget preparations and outcomes should be based on facts including the vast majority expressed public opinion supporting Our ABC, its trustworthiness and its essential broadcasting services.

The Budget must be based on facts, not external influences.

Regards

Beverly and John Redshaw