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Former News Limited CEO Kim Williams set to replace Ita Buttrose as ABC chair (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

From a speech when he was News Limited chairman in 2009:

"Moreover the ABC, in our view, should not be seen as the default provider of all publicly funded content. We need to look at new models – such as making some public funding open to contestability. Because no one is suggesting an end to public broadcasting or free-to-air commercial broadcasting, we're happy to compete against it."

Bad.