ABC Friends Bendigo

25/11/2025

More people are accessing the ABC than ever before. But they’re watching, listening and reading it in many different ways.

Managing Director of the ABC, Hugh Marks sets out his vision for a confident ABC that connects and engages all Australians in a changing media environment.

https://www.abcfriends.net.au/whos_watching_listening_abc

https://iview.abc.net.au/video/NC2511C042S00

Managing Director of the ABC, Hugh Marks sets out his vision for a confident ABC that connects and engages all Australians in a changing media environment.

13/10/2025

Petition your local MPs and State Senators. Tell them you support Australia having a Human Rights Act.

There’s 1300 followers here. If everyone took time to write an email or two, it would have an impact.

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NEW REPORT: An Australian Human Rights Act would make our lives better by putting human rights at the heart of laws and government decisions.

Our new report, Legislating Human Rights Acts from Whitlam to Now, shows that we’re the closest in 40+ years to an Australian Human Rights Act. Support for a Human Rights Act remains high and unwavering over 50 years, now is the time for the Albanese Government to take a historic step forward for human rights in Australia.

Read the report at: https://www.humanrightsact.org.au/news-events/legislating-human-rights-acts-report

26/09/2025

ABC Friends' e-newsletter is out for this month, highlighting the latest news, events and dates to note down. Be sure to check out the 'What's On' page for future events held or attended by ABC Friends.

ABC Friends Victoria conducts its business on the Country of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation, over which sovereignty was never ceded. We acknowledge their custodianship and pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging.

26/09/2025

Youth media leader Leo Puglisi challenges the under-16 social media ban, warning it could silence young voices and stifle innovation.

Australian teenagers have grown up on YouTube and admit it can be harmful, but some say the government's blanket ban will do little to address the problems.

24/08/2025

Former ABC Reporter, Michael Brissenden, book launch
Friday 05/09/25, 2.30pm Ballarat Library.

The former ABC journalist and foreign correspondent will talk about his writing inspirations and the real-world issues that shape his storytelling.

The Ballarat Library is working with ABC Friends Ballarat and ABC Alumni to run a series of events in 2026 to review and celebrate the 50th anniversary of ABC Friends.

26/07/2025

'Segal’s thoughts about “Advance” and her husband’s $50,000 donation matter. Segal’s desire to monitor the ABC and SBS and to strip funds from them if they are found to have allowed antisemitic content onto their programs is consistent with one of the most conspicuous perennial demands of the mainstream far right in Australia, the attack on the ABC.'

'I am a devoted listener to the most politically sophisticated arm of the ABC, Radio National. In several years I have not even once encountered a program that could even remotely be regarded as antisemitic.'
- Robert Manne 2025

Several excellent critiques of Jillian Segal’s “Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism” have appeared, by Louise Adler (The Guardian), Henry Reynolds (Pearls and Irritations), Nick Feik (Substack), Guy Rundle (Substack) and Jeffrey Loewenstein (Pearls and Irritations). I would like to a...