Across the country, the 7pm news bulletin was replaced by a rerun of Australian Story — a profile of Olympic swimmer Michael Klim, for those keeping score — and 7.30, the nation's flagship current affairs programme, gave way to a repeat of Hard Quiz. The ABC's industrial dispute is itself the strongest argument against privatisation — not because the dispute is unjust, but because it reveals what the ABC has quietly become: a sheltered workshop for the professional class. The median ABC employee is tertiary-educated, inner-metropolitan, and culturally progressive — which is to say, indistinguishable from the median ABC viewer, which is to say, the ABC has achieved the remarkable feat of building an enterprise whose producers and consumers are the same people.
Author: Vince Hooper
Published at: 2026-04-03 21:34:59
Still want to read the full version? Full article
