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The ABC Board is the body responsible for the operations of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Kim Williams AM is chair; David Anderson the managing director appointed by the board; Laura Tingle is a staff-elected member. The chair and other directors are chosen by the Australian Government.

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Composition, structure and responsibilities

The ABC Board is a board of directors that is responsible for the operations of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. [1] It is made up of five to seven directors chosen by the Australian government, and a managing director who is appointed by the board itself. [1] [2] [3] At various times, ABC staff have been granted rights to elect a nominee for appointment to the board; and as of April 2013 staff elected a nominee-director. [4] 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 ensure that the gathering and presentation by the Corporation of news and information is accurate and impartial according to the recognized standards of objective journalism".

The Governor-General, on the recommendation of the Federal Government, appoints members, as specified in the ABC Act. [5] [6] The ABC Act specifies that Directors must be experienced in broadcasting, communications or management, or have expertise in financial or technical matters, or have cultural or other interests relevant to the provision of broadcasting services. [7] Each director serves a term of five years, with eligibility for reappointment at the end of this term. [7]

Directors are expected to follow the ABC Board Protocol, which stipulates responsibilities, expectations, rights, and benefits. [7]

The board maintains an Advisory Council, which advises it on matters concerning the Corporation's programming. [8] The Council is made up of twelve members, broadly representative of the Australian community, which serve staggered four-year terms. Vacancies are advertised in September–October each year. The Advisory Council's current Chairman is Dr Jane Munro, Head of International House at the University of Melbourne. [8]

Process of appointment

The Minister for Communications nominates candidates to the Governor-General for appointment to the ABC Board; based on a shortlist prepared by an independent nomination panel. As of April 2018, members of the panel were former Treasury Secretary and Westpac Chairman, Ted Evans AC (Chairman); company director and lawyer, Dr Sally Pitkin; public relations media director and former broadcaster, Anne Fulwood; and former Australian Public Service Commissioner and departmental secretary, Helen Williams. [9]

Appointments to the board made by successive governments have often resulted in criticism of the appointees' political affiliation, background, and relative merit. [10] [11] From 2003 the Howard government also made several controversial appointments to the ABC Board, including Albrechtsen, a prominent critic, [12] Ron Brunton, [13] and Keith Windschuttle. [11] [14]

During their 2007 federal election campaign, Labor announced plans to introduce a new system, similar to that of the BBC, for appointing members to the board. [15] [16] Under this new system, now in place, ABC candidates are considered by a panel established "at arm's length" from the Communications Minister. [17] If the Minister chose someone not on the panel's shortlist, the Minister would be required to justify their selection to Australian Parliament. The Chairman of the ABC is nominated by the Prime Minister and endorsed by the Leader of the Opposition. [15] [18]

Current board members

NameFunctional roleTerm startNotes / reference
Kim Williams Chair7 March 2024Term ends 6 March 2029 [19]
David Anderson Managing director6 May 2019Term ends 6 March 2024 [20] [21]
Laura Tingle Staff-elected director1 May 2023Term ends 30 April 2028 [22]
Peter Lewis2 October 20141st term ended 1 October 2019; 2nd term ends 1 October 2024 [23] [21]
Georgie Somerset 23 February 2017Term ends 22 Feb 2027 [24] [21]
Mario D’Orazio13 May 2021Term ends 12 May 2026 [25] [21]
Peter Tonagh13 May 2021Term ends 12 May 2026 [26] [21]
Louise McElvogue16 October 2023Term ends 15 October 2028 [27]

Notable people

Chairs

No.NameStart of termEnd of termNotes
1Sir Charles Lloyd Jones 19321934 [28]
2William James Cleary19341945 [29]
3Sir Richard Boyer KBE 1 April 19455 June 1961Instigated the Boyer Lectures in 1959. Died in office. [30]
4Sir James Darling CMG OBE 1 July 1961May 1967 [31]
5Sir Robert Madgwick OBE 1 July 196730 June 1973 [32] [33]
6Professor Richard Downing1 July 197310 November 1975Died in office
7Sir Henry Bland July 1976December 1976 [34]
8John D Norgard19761981
9Dame Leonie Kramer AC DBE 198230 June 1983
10 Ken Myer AC DSC 1 July 19831986 [35]
11 David Hill 19861987Resigned as Chair to take up appointment as Managing Director [36]
12Bob Somervaille19871991 [36]
13Mark Armstrong199123 July 1996 [36] [37]
14 Donald McDonald AC 24 July 199631 December 2006 [36] [37] [38]
15 Maurice Newman AC 1 January 200731 March 2012 [36]
16 James Spigelman AC QC 1 April 201231 March 2017 [39]
17 Justin Milne FAICD 1 April 201727 September 2018Resigned [40]
18 Kirstin Ferguson 28 September 201827 February 2019Acting Chair [41]
19 Ita Buttrose AC OBE 28 February 20196 March 2024
20 Kim Williams AM 7 March 20246 March 2029

Notable directors

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Michael Kroger pictured here in 2015 has had a long association with the ABC
NameStart of termEnd of termNotes
Janet Albrechtsen 24 February 200518 February 2010 [12] [42] [43] [44]
John Bannon AO 24 July 1994July 1999 [37] [45]
Cheryl Bart AO 3 June 2010 [46]
Neville Bonner 1 July 1983 [47]
Ron Brunton 1 May 200330 April 2008 [13]
Quentin Dempster Elected by staff [48]
Kirstin Ferguson 12 November 2015November 2020 [49] [50]
John Gallagher QC 9 December 199923 February 2008 [51] [52] [53]
Di Gribble AM [54]
Vanessa Guthrie 23 February 2017March 2021 [49] [55]
Earle Hackett 1973 [56]
Peter Hurley
Ramona Koval 20022006Elected by staff [57]
Michael Kroger 1998February 2003 [58]
Michael Lynch March 2009
Ian Macphee AO 9 December 1994 [37]
Professor Julianne Schultz AM 1 October 2014
Steven Skala AO 6 October 2005[ citation needed ]
Dr Fiona Stanley AC FAA 30 June 20112016 [59] [60]
Keith Windschuttle June 2006 [11] [14]

Managers

No.TitleNameStart of termEnd of termNotes
1General ManagerHarold Parkyn Williams1 August 1932 [61] : 25 4 March 1933Died in office [62]
2Major Walter Tasman Conder1 April 1933 [63] 25 June 1935 [61] : 42–43  [64]
3Sir Charles Moses 1 November 1935 [65] 21 January 1965 [61] : 254  [66] [67]
4Sir Talbot Duckmanton 26 February 19651 July 1982 [68]
5 Keith Jennings 13 August 19825 May 1983
6Managing director Geoffrey Whitehead 23 January 198431 December 1986 [69] [70]
7 David Hill 1 January 198725 February 1995 [71]
8 Brian Johns 17 March 199517 March 2000
9 Jonathan Shier 17 March 200031 December 2001 [38]
10 Russell Balding 29 May 200225 March 2006
11 Mark Scott 5 July 200629 April 2016
12 Michelle Guthrie 1 May 201624 September 2018 [60] [72] [73]
13 David Anderson 3 May 2019present [74]

Criticism

Past appointments have been associated directly with political parties—five of fourteen appointed chairmen have been accused of political affiliation or friendship, including Richard Downing and Ken Myer (both of whom publicly endorsed the Australian Labor Party at the 1972 election [75] ), as well as Sir Henry Bland. David Hill was close to Neville Wran, while Donald McDonald was considered to be a close friend of John Howard. [76]

In the past, appointments of commissioners and directors also drew criticism. [11] In the 1932, a majority of the commissioners were publicly conservative.[ citation needed ] This continued to 1942, when the Curtin and Chifley administrations appointed a more 'politically balanced' commission.[ citation needed ]

Once elected to power, Labor prime minister Whitlam replaced the entire board—appointed by Liberal governments over the previous 23 years—with supporters of the Labor Party. [76] His successor, Malcolm Fraser, attempted unsuccessfully to take similar action by replacing the board with politically conservative commissioners in 1976, [76] but was only able to make new appointments by adding two extra director positions onto the board. [66] [76]

In 1983, Minister John Button referred proposed board appointments to an all-party committee for the first time. [76] This practice was discontinued before the end of Paul Keating's government. [76] Alan Ramsey, in a 1996 article for The Sydney Morning Herald noted that:

"12 came from overt political backgrounds, among them a former Labor premier, [11] a former Liberal senator, a former Liberal Cabinet minister, four trade union activists, four advisers to various State Labor administrations, and Labor's former opinion pollster, Rod Cameron. [11] " In short, "less than half Labor's ABC appointments over the years have had obvious party political connections, while two of them came from among the ranks of its political opponents." [66]

A 2006 restructure of the ABC board, undertaken by the Howard government, abolished the position of staff elected director. [3] The elected director was previously nominated and elected by employees of the ABC. Nominees for this director office were to have been employed at least 24 hours a week by the ABC and the term of office was two years with eligibility for re-election to a second term. An elected director was not eligible for a third term of office. Broadcaster Ramona Koval had occupied the position for the previous four years prior to its abolition amid ongoing intense controversy. [77] This drew criticism from the Labor Party, Australian Greens, and the Democrats, who saw it as a 'revenge measure' taken against the Corporation. [78] [79]

In July 2007, Labor announced plans to make the system of appointments to the board independent of the Minister for Communications; [15] and also reinstate the staff election of a nominee director. [4] Initial members of the independent panel were Gonski, Smith, Allan Fels and Leneen Forde.[ citation needed ]

In September 2018, there was criticism raised by Labor's Shadow Communications Minister Michelle Rowland about ABC's "independence and integrity of Australia's most trusted news organisation risk having been compromised" [80] following discussions within the ABC board about an email instruction from Justin Milne to Michelle Guthrie in May 2018 to sack senior presenter Emma Alberici, on the basis that what was reported by Alberici did not agree with the government.

On 24 September 2018, Justin Milne announced to ABC staff that Managing Director Michelle Guthrie was sacked following discussions with the ABC executive and directors. [81] Milne then announced his resignation on 27 September. [82] Communications Minister Mitch Fifield has directly appointed a majority of the current members of the board, some of whom were rejected by the nomination panel. [83]

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