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ABC notes

27 July 2019

9:00 AM

27 July 2019

9:00 AM

Not the 7 o’clock news – brought to you by ‘their’ ABC

Is the nation getting good value for the mountains of public money heaped on the ABC annually for its news and current affairs programmes? The logical, albeit unexciting, starting point for anyone interested in forming an opinion on that burning question is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983 (the Act).

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