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The taking of the ABC.  Professor Alan Knight comments on the Howard legacy to the ABC.  HTML

A publisher but not a producer.  The implications of the Channel Four model for ABC TV Darce Cassidy HTML PDF

How Piers Akerman "sexed up" the figures on ABC funding Darce Cassidy HTML   PDF

Is Friends of the ABC a front for the Labor Party Darce Cassidy HTML

The licence fee myth   Darce Cassidy HTML

New technologies and the ABC   Alan Knight (National Spokesperson)  HTML  PDF

To survive the ABC must provide something for everyone Darce Cassidy HTML PDF

Your ABC - proudly brought to you by your sponsors  Jill Greenwell HTML

Double standards?  Will the real ABC please stand up?  Darce Cassidy HTML

Labor's ABC Policy - an advance and a retreat?  Darce Cassidy  HTML

Institute of Public Affairs - Deliberately misleading, or simply a lack of basic research?   Darce Cassidy  HTML

A loophole and a Trojan horse - Advertising on the ABC website, charges for dowloads and podcasts?           Darce Cassidy   HTML    PDF

Racial vilification on commercial radio. Darce Cassidy  HTML  PDF

The Elepant Trap: Government-ABC relations during the 2nd Gulf War. Professor Liz Jacka Link

Pushpin AND Poetry.  Defending the ABC Charter.  Darce Cassidy HTML Version   PDF Version

Arts programming. A response to  Martin Harrison's essay "Our ABC" A Dying Culture  Darce Cassidy  PDF

Why Professor Flint should stand aside Darce Cassidy HTML

At Arms Length? - The ABC as a statutory authority Professor Ken Inglis
Victorian Fabian Society Autumn Lectures, 2004  PDF

Fourteen cents a day -restoring ABC funding   Darce Cassidy HTML PDF

Behind the Vaile - trading Australia away. Paper delivered to the September 2003 Confernce of Friends of the ABC by Gary Cook    PDF

Paper delivered to the May 2002 Conference of the Friends of the ABC by Professor Ken Inglis

Fifty seven channels and nothin' on HTML Version PDF Version
Darce Cassidy, National Spokesperson, looks at the ABC's future in a multi channel and multi platform environment

Lies, Damned Lies and Ratings HTML Version PDF Version
Darce Cassidy, FABC National Spokesperson

Political cost of attacks on ABC PDF Version
Professor Glenn Withers

Shock Horror - ABC Efficient HTML Version
Professor Glenn Withers

Man the trenches, dig deep, for our ABC HTML version PDF Version
Robert Manne

Little by little, the ABC slowly dies HTML Version PDF Version
Stewart Fist

Aunty at 70: A Health Report on the ABC (PDF)
Professor Ken Inglis

Darce Cassidy debates Alan Moran,, Institute of Public Affairs, AFR June 2002 (PDF)

Some Heroes and Martyrs
Speech to the 2001 AGM of FABC, SA HTML PDF
Darce Cassidy

Speech to Adelaide Rally  Darce Cassidy May 2000 (HTML)