Quentin Dempster defended the ABC in his Politics in the Park talk ‘Abbott’s Cuts to the ABC Disempowering Democratic Debate’ at the Harold Park Hotel on October 9.
The ABC and SBS are in no man’s land at the moment.
Both these public broadcasting institutions are waiting for the Abbott Government’s Expenditure Review Committee to set the funding envelope for 2014/15 and beyond.
Last week the ABC Board reportedly signed off on contingency plans in the event that the ‘envelope’ was to be $50million recurrent or more. The board won’t press the downsizing button until it knows the precise figure. This, then, is a standoff between the ABC and the government.
Read the transcript of his talk here or watch the video.
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