By Ken Inglis
Whose ABC? is a historical past of the nationwide broadcaster in recent years. seeing that changing into a company in 1983, the ABC has been answerable for many programming triumphs - from Four Corners to Kath and Kim, from Radio nationwide to ABC on-line. It has noticeable arguable coping with administrators come and move, and masses boardroom politics. forums and bosses have campaigned - usually fruitlessly - for investment, and engaged in clash with the govt. of the day.
Whose ABC? is a publication in regards to the tradition and politics of the ABC. it's the made of broad study, together with interviews with quite a lot of humans, from best ministers to presenters. Inglis seeks out the reality of occasions and creates a landscape of the nationwide broadcaster's altering fortunes. Unfailingly readable, this can be either an essential source for ABC-watchers and a brilliant biography of a valuable Australian institution.
Ken Inglis is Emeritus Professor of background at Australian nationwide college. His books contain The Stuart Case, this can be the ABC, Whose ABC? and Sacred Places, winner of the Age booklet of the yr and the NSW Premier's Prize for Australian background in 1999.
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