ABC News and Current Affairs
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ABC News and Current Affairs is the division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that controls content classified as News, Public Affairs, Business and Finance and Regional Affairs.
It comprises three sections: Radio, Television and Online.
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[edit] ABC Television News and Current Affairs Programmes
[edit] News
[edit] ABC2/ABC Online
[edit] Public/Current Affairs
- Asia-Pacific Focus
- Australia Wide
- Australian Story
- Foreign Correspondent
- Four Corners
- Insiders
- Landline
- Lateline
- Media Watch
- Stateline
- The 7.30 Report
[edit] Business and Finance
[edit] Regional
- Landline
- Australia Wide
- Rural Watch
[edit] ABC Current Affairs
The ABC produces many current affairs programmes, including The 7.30 Report and Lateline. These programmes often use resources or reports from one another. For instance, an Asia-Pacific-based report from the week's Foreign Correspondent 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.
The ABC's Current Affairs department has also won a whole host of awards over the years.
[edit] ABC Public Affairs
Apart from the usual coverage of Public Affairs & Politics during programmes such as ABC News, Lateline and The 7.30 Report, the ABC has a dedicated hour-long Public Affairs programme every Sunday at 9am, Insiders, which is hosted by Barrie Cassidy. The programme comprises a news update, an interview with a prominent political figure (usually a Federal Government minister), 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, hence the use of the nearby ABC Asia-Pacific News set for both the news updates and Inside Business (which follows Insiders).
[edit] Correspondents
Television
- Politics: Jim Middleton
- Finance: Alan Kohler
- National Security: Leigh Sales (this title was created in about February 2006)
Radio and Television
- Foreign Affairs: Peter Cave, Michael Maher, Graeme Dobell
- Africa: Zoe Daniel, David Hardaker, Mark Willacy
- Europe: Jane Hutcheon, Rafael Epstein
- London: Stephanie Kennedy (formerly 3rd Europe Correspondent; her title changed on 25th April, 2006)
- Russia & North Europe: Emma Griffiths
- Middle East: David Hardaker, Matt Brown (not to be confused with ABC News' Victorian sports reporter of the same name), Peter George, David Hardaker
- New Zealand: Peter Lewis
- Pacific: Sean Dorney
- China: John Taylor
- North Asia: Shane McLeod (Shane is often transferred to other places in Asia to report on crises or drawn-out events, such as the 2006 constitutional crisis in Nepal and the Yogyakarta earthquake in that year.)
- South East Asia: Peter Lloyd
- Indonesia: Geoff Thompson
- United States of America: Jill Colgan, Mark Simkin
- Washington: Michael Rowland
Special ABC Correspondents
There are a few ABC Correspondents who usually report or present ABC programmes 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 is the ABC's senior foreign affairs correspondent and travels all over the world to cover breaking stories.
During the Solomon Islands crisis of April 2006, Phillip Williams, the presenter of Stateline in the Australian Capital 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, various ABC Correspondents were moved around the region. Foreign Editor Peter Cave , Emma Griffiths, former Middle East Correspondent Jane Hutcheon and former Africa Correspondent Sally Sara, along with Matt Brown and David Hardaker, took turns covering the crisis from either side of the border.
