ABC News and Current Affairs
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ABC News and Current Affairs is the name of the division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

 (ABC) that controls content classified as news
News
News is the communication of selected information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.- Etymology :...

, public affairs and business and finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...

.

However, the other divisions of the ABC also produce a range of programming within these genres. All such content is covered here.

News

  • ABC News
    ABC News (Australia)
    ABC News is a national news service produced by the News and Current Affairs division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - the division is responsible for all newsgathering and production of news output for ABC television, radio and online services...

  • ABC News 24
    ABC News 24
    ABC News 24 is an Australian 24-hour news channel launched and owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The channel replaced the former ABC High Definition simulcast of ABC1 and commenced broadcasting at 7:30pm 5:30 on Thursday, 22 July 2010.-Pre-launch:The ABC announced in January 2010...

  • The Midday Report
    ABC News (Australia)
    ABC News is a national news service produced by the News and Current Affairs division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - the division is responsible for all newsgathering and production of news output for ABC television, radio and online services...

  • ABC News Breakfast
    ABC News Breakfast
    ABC News Breakfast is an Australian breakfast television programme which broadcasts on ABC1 & ABC News 24 from 6am - 9am on weekdays. The program airs live in all Australian timezones on the high-definition digital free-to-air channel ABC News 24...

  • The World
    ABC News 24
    ABC News 24 is an Australian 24-hour news channel launched and owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The channel replaced the former ABC High Definition simulcast of ABC1 and commenced broadcasting at 7:30pm 5:30 on Thursday, 22 July 2010.-Pre-launch:The ABC announced in January 2010...

  • Afternoon Live
    ABC News 24
    ABC News 24 is an Australian 24-hour news channel launched and owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The channel replaced the former ABC High Definition simulcast of ABC1 and commenced broadcasting at 7:30pm 5:30 on Thursday, 22 July 2010.-Pre-launch:The ABC announced in January 2010...


News Online


Current affairs

  • The 7.30 Report
    The 7.30 Report
    The 7.30 Report is an Australian nightly television current affairs program, that was shown on ABC1 and ABC News 24 at , Mondays–Thursdays...

  • Lateline
    Lateline
    Lateline is an Australian television news and current affairs program produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, airing weeknights at on ABC1. The program has developed a reputation for head-to-head debates on current issues and political interviews. Lateline is followed by its sister...

  • Australian Story
    Australian Story
    Australian Story is a national weekly documentary series, produced and broadcast on ABC Television.Since 1996 Australian Story has featured many Australians from diverse backgrounds and reputations...

  • Foreign Correspondent
    Foreign Correspondent (TV series)
    Foreign Correspondent is a weekly Australian documentary series and current affairs program screened on ABC1, Tuesday at . Premiering at on Saturday 14 March 1992, the aim is to give informed information about the happenings in other countries either on the light side of life or during crisis.-...

  • Four Corners
  • Insiders
  • Capital Hill
    ABC News 24
    ABC News 24 is an Australian 24-hour news channel launched and owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The channel replaced the former ABC High Definition simulcast of ABC1 and commenced broadcasting at 7:30pm 5:30 on Thursday, 22 July 2010.-Pre-launch:The ABC announced in January 2010...

  • Stateline
  • Media Watch
  • Offsiders
    Offsiders
    Offsiders is an Australian television sports program, that is currently airing live on Sunday mornings at 10.30am on both ABC1 and ABC News 24 networks . It began airing in 2005...


Discussion

  • Q&A
    Q&A (TV program)
    Q&A is an Australian television program, broadcast on ABC1 hosted by award-winning news journalist Tony Jones. It is similar to shows like Question Time on the BBC and Questions and Answers on RTÉ....

  • The Drum
    ABC News 24
    ABC News 24 is an Australian 24-hour news channel launched and owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The channel replaced the former ABC High Definition simulcast of ABC1 and commenced broadcasting at 7:30pm 5:30 on Thursday, 22 July 2010.-Pre-launch:The ABC announced in January 2010...

  • Big Ideas http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/

Business and finance

  • Lateline Business
    Lateline Business
    Lateline Business is a late night half hour business news television programme on ABC1 & ABC News 24 in Australia. The program is currently presented by ABC business journalist Ticky Fullerton....

  • Inside Business
    Inside Business
    For the business newspaper based in the United States, see Inside Business Inside Business is an Australian television program broadcast on ABC TV. Making its debut on 4 August 2002, it presents analysis of the financial world, including the Australian sharemarket, business activities and the...

  • Business Today
    ABC News 24
    ABC News 24 is an Australian 24-hour news channel launched and owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The channel replaced the former ABC High Definition simulcast of ABC1 and commenced broadcasting at 7:30pm 5:30 on Thursday, 22 July 2010.-Pre-launch:The ABC announced in January 2010...

    http://australianetwork.com/businesstoday/

Asia Pacific


Current affairs

  • AM
    AM (ABC Radio)
    AM, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's flagship current-affairs radio program, is one of Australia's longest-running productions. Its tagline is Ensure you are informed.-History and timeslots:...

  • PM
    PM (ABC Radio)
    PM is one of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's flagship current-affairs radio programs, and is one of Australia's longest-running productions. It is the sister program to AM...

  • The World Today
    The World Today
    BBC World News is the standard news bulletin featuring the latest international news broadcast throughout most of the day on BBC World News. Some editions also feature brief business and sport reports as well...

  • Correspondents Report http://www.abc.net.au/correspondents/

ABC Radio National


ABC Newsradio


Radio Australia


triple j


ABC Rural


ABC Local Radio


ABC Current Affairs

The ABC produces many current affairs programmes, including The 7.30 Report
The 7.30 Report
The 7.30 Report is an Australian nightly television current affairs program, that was shown on ABC1 and ABC News 24 at , Mondays–Thursdays...

and Lateline
Lateline
Lateline is an Australian television news and current affairs program produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, airing weeknights at on ABC1. The program has developed a reputation for head-to-head debates on current issues and political interviews. Lateline is followed by its sister...

. These programmes often use resources or reports from one another. For instance, an Asia-Pacific-based report from the week's Foreign Correspondent
Foreign correspondent
Foreign Correspondent may refer to:*Foreign correspondent *Foreign Correspondent , an Alfred Hitchcock film*Foreign Correspondent , an Australian current affairs programme...

will be edited for use during that same week's Asia-Pacific Focus programme.

News reports from ABC News are also edited, often with new material added on, for use on that night's Lateline
Lateline
Lateline is an Australian television news and current affairs program produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, airing weeknights at on ABC1. The program has developed a reputation for head-to-head debates on current issues and political interviews. Lateline is followed by its sister...

.

The ABC's Current Affairs department has also won a number of awards over the years.

ABC Public Affairs

Apart from the usual coverage of Public Affairs & Politics during programmes such as ABC News
ABC News (Australia)
ABC News is a national news service produced by the News and Current Affairs division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - the division is responsible for all newsgathering and production of news output for ABC television, radio and online services...

, Lateline
Lateline
Lateline is an Australian television news and current affairs program produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, airing weeknights at on ABC1. The program has developed a reputation for head-to-head debates on current issues and political interviews. Lateline is followed by its sister...

and The 7.30 Report
The 7.30 Report
The 7.30 Report is an Australian nightly television current affairs program, that was shown on ABC1 and ABC News 24 at , Mondays–Thursdays...

, the ABC has a dedicated hour-long Public Affairs programme every Sunday at 9am, Insiders, which is hosted by Barrie Cassidy
Barrie Cassidy
Barrie Cassidy is a veteran Australian political journalist.Cassidy was born in Wangaratta and grew up in the Victorian town of Chiltern, attending Rutherglen High School. He had many brothers and an elder sister, and grew up with a love of football and sports...

. The programme comprises a news update, an interview with a prominent political figure (usually a Federal Government minister or Opposition spokesperson), two reviews of the week (one of political cartoons, the other of the political situation) and a discussion of the week in politics and public affairs with a panel of guests, most of whom are from prominent newspapers.

The programme is produced in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

, hence the use of the nearby Australia Network ABC News set for both the news updates and Inside Business (which follows Insiders).

Correspondents

Television
  • Politics: Chris Uhlmann (Political Editor), Mark Simkim (Chief Political Correspondent), Greg Jennett (Bureau Chief), Andrew Greene (Political Correspondent for ABC News 24), Melissa Clarke (Political Correspondent for News Breakfast) & Tom Iggulden (Political Correspondent for Lateline)
  • Finance: Alan Kohler
    Alan Kohler
    Alan Kohler has been a financial journalist since 1971. He began as a cadet on The Australian; has been a columnist for Chanticleer in The Australian Financial Review and was Editor of the AFR between 1985 and 1988...

  • Social Media: Latika Bourke


ABC Foreign Correspondents
  • Foreign Affairs Editor: Peter Cave
  • Africa (Johannesburg): Ginny Stein
  • Europe (London): Emma Alberici & Phillip Williams
  • London: Rachael Brown
  • Russia (Moscow): Norman Hermant
  • Middle East (Jerusalem): Anne Barker & Ben Knight
  • New Zealand (Auckland): Dominique Schwartz
  • Pacific: Sean Dorney
  • Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby): Liam Fox
  • China (Beijing): Stephen McDonell
  • North Asia (Tokyo): Mark Willacy
  • South East Asia (Bangkok): Zoe Daniel
  • South Asia (New Delhi): Anne Barker
  • Afghanistan (Kabul): Sally Sara
  • Indonesia (Jakarta): Matt Brown
  • United States of America (Washington): Michael Brissenden, Lisa Millar, Jane Cowan & Craig McMurtrie


Special ABC correspondents

There are a few ABC correspondents who usually report or present ABC programs in Australia but are sent overseas to cover special events. Such ABC correspondents usually have an area of speciality and have reported in a certain area before. Peter Cave
Peter Cave
Peter Cave is an Australian journalist. He is Foreign Affairs Editor for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.-Early Life and Education:Peter Cave was born in 1952 in Newcastle, New South Wales. He grew up in Waratah as one of four children of Frederick David and Betty Cave...

 is the ABC's senior foreign affairs correspondent and travels all over the world to cover breaking stories.

During the Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of . The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal...

 crisis of April 2006, Phillip Williams, the presenter of Stateline
Stateline
State Line or Stateline may refer to:* borderSpecific places:* Stateline, California, near Lake Tahoe* State Line, California, former settlement in Mono County* State Line, Idaho* Stateline, Kansas* State Line, Mississippi* Stateline, Nevada...

in the Australian Capital Territory
Australian Capital Territory
The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...

, was sent across to report on events there. As a result, Sean Dorney, the ABC's designated Pacific correspondent, moved across to ABC Radio News and Current Affairs to cover the Solomons' crisis for them.

During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
The 2006 Lebanon War, also called the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War and known in Lebanon as the July War #Other uses|Tammūz]]) and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War , was a 34-day military conflict in Lebanon, northern Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories. The principal parties were Hezbollah...

, various ABC correspondents were moved around the region. The foreign affairs editor, Peter Cave
Peter Cave
Peter Cave is an Australian journalist. He is Foreign Affairs Editor for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.-Early Life and Education:Peter Cave was born in 1952 in Newcastle, New South Wales. He grew up in Waratah as one of four children of Frederick David and Betty Cave...

, as well as Emma Griffiths, former Middle East correspondent Jane Hutcheon and former Africa correspondent Sally Sara
Sally Sara
Sally Jane Sara AM is an Australian journalist and TV presenter. Currently she is the ABC's Afghanistan correspondent.- Background :...

, along with Matt Brown and David Hardaker, took turns covering the crisis from either side of the border.

See also

  • ABC News
    ABC News (Australia)
    ABC News is a national news service produced by the News and Current Affairs division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - the division is responsible for all newsgathering and production of news output for ABC television, radio and online services...

  • ABC News 24
    ABC News 24
    ABC News 24 is an Australian 24-hour news channel launched and owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The channel replaced the former ABC High Definition simulcast of ABC1 and commenced broadcasting at 7:30pm 5:30 on Thursday, 22 July 2010.-Pre-launch:The ABC announced in January 2010...

  • ABC Local Radio
    ABC Local Radio
    ABC Local Radio is a network of publicly owned radio stations in Australia, operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.ABC Local Radio stations broadcast across the continent using terrestrial transmitters and satellites...

  • ABC News Radio
    ABC News Radio
    ABC News Radio is the radio service of ABC News, a division of the ABC Television Network. Formerly known as ABC Radio News, ABC News Radio feeds, through Cumulus Media Networks, newscasts on the hour to its more than 2,000 affiliates...


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