Staff cuts hack into ABC

Let's take the rhetoric out of Michelle Guthrie's changes to the ABC. What do they really mean?

7 Mar 2017

David Tiley

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Image; the last time ABC staff were safe from cuts.

Shorn of the fluff, the structural changes to the ABC are known to be:

150 to 200 hundred staff out by June 30, including 20% of management staff. ABC News and ABC TV will be hit hard, as Guthrie told her staff.

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David Tiley was the Editor of Screenhub from 2005 until he became Content Lead for Film in 2021 with a special interest in policy. He is a writer in screen media with a long career in educational programs, documentary, and government funding, with a side order in script editing. He values curiosity, humour and objectivity in support of Australian visions and the art of storytelling.