Election Issues: YOUR ABC IS BEING GUTTED – Stop the Chop !

Since the election of the Abbott/Turnbull Government, the ABC has LOST: 

• Almost $500m in funding, and almosi 500 jobs, including many senior staff 
• The Australia Network (ABC Television broadcasts into Asia and Pacific). & 72 jobs
• Much of the reach and diversity of Radio Australia
• TV production facilities in Adelaide and Hobart (Brisbane and Perth had already gone)
• ABC Shops 

CUTBACKS have included:

• Televised sports broadcasts
• Classic FM Live Broadcasts (50%)
• Foreign Correspondent
• Regional news bulletins and state news rooms
• Regional radio (12 studios closed)
• Specialist programming units (50%) 

ALSO AXED

• State 7.30 Programs
• At the Movies
• RN Specialist Programs - Bush Telegraph. 
• Hindsight, Encounter. Poetica. 
• First Bite.
• Into the Music. 
• 360 Documentaries. 
• By Design. 
• The Media Report. 

Footnote: the Rudd Gillard Labor Government increased ABC Funding by $130m