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The Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund (ACBF), also known as Youpla, was an Australian company offering funeral insurance targeted at Indigenous Australians.The company collapsed in March 2022, leaving 14,500 customers an estimated A$66 million out of pocket in what was described by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as a "slow-moving disaster" and "one of the most egregious examples of ...
The ABC was established as the Australian Broadcasting Commission on 1 July 1932 by an Act of Federal Parliament. It effectively replaced the Australian Broadcasting Company, a private company established in 1924 to provide programming for A-class radio stations. The ABC was given statutory powers that reinforced its independence from the ...
This is a list of television programmes that are currently being broadcast or have been broadcast on ABC Television's ABC TV (formerly ABC1), ABC Family (formerly ABC2, ABC Comedy and ABC TV Plus), ABC Kids (formerly ABC 4 Kids), ABC Entertains (formerly ABC3 and ABC ME) or ABC News (formerly ABC News 24) in Australia.
The government was obliged to pay millions in compensation to Sky News. [13] In the 2014–2015 Australian federal budget by the Abbott government, [5] all funding to the Australia Network was cut and its closure was announced, days before it was about to sign a contract with Shanghai Media Holdings to begin broadcasting in China (making it ...
This is the ABC – the Australian Broadcasting Commission 1932–1983 (2006) Inglis, K. S. Whose ABC? The Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1983–2006 (2006) Johnson, Lesley. The Unseen Voice: a cultural study of early Australian radio (London, 1988) Jolly, Rhonda. Media ownership and regulation: a chronology (Canberra, 2016)
The duties of the board, as set out in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983, commonly called the ABC Act, (section 8) include duties "to ensure that the functions of the Corporation are performed efficiently and with the maximum benefit to the people of Australia; to maintain the independence and integrity of the Corporation; and to ...
ABC News Queensland; Seven News Brisbane; Nine News Queensland; Nine Gold Coast News (weeknights only); 10 News First Queensland; Regional, weeknights only. Seven News (local editions for Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rockhampton, Wide Bay, the Sunshine Coast, and Toowoomba)
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983 mandates that the ABC "shall develop and maintain an independent service for the broadcasting of news and information" both within Australia on a daily basis, and also to countries outside Australia. [12] The name of the division and director responsible has changed over the years.