Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport & Arts portfolio

Verified figures

• Contracts (all years): no publishable rows matched — this means the figure is unknown, not nil
• Contract value (all years): no publishable rows matched — this means the figure is unknown, not nil
• APS headcount: no publishable rows matched — this means the figure is unknown, not nil
• Budget 2026-27: 1,385,569 thousand AUD
• Highest total remuneration: 1,564,717 AUD
• Directory roles: no publishable rows matched — this means the figure is unknown, not nil

Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.

Coverage — named in the headline (40)

• 2025-06-23 — Digital sovereignty and national independence: Kim Williams on the ABC’s crucial democratic function
• 2025-06-17 — ABC chair confident Q+A axing will not curb appetite to speak truth to power
• 2025-06-15 — ‘Bewitchingly complex’: Kim Williams on ABC’s critical culture reset
• 2025-01-21 — The ABC’s diversity problem: Favouring people who look and sound like Hugh
• 2024-12-17 — ABC gets new managing director
• 2024-10-01 — ‘Systemic’: ABC racism, bullying and harassment review calls for safer workplace and stronger culture
• 2024-01-25 — Movers & Shakers: Williams set for ABC hotseat, new NACC deputy
• 2023-05-10 — ‘Shovel ready’ new Utopia season to air next month on ABC
• 2023-03-16 — Movers & Shakers: Inaugural appointments at Australia-India centre, ABC and Brisbane 2032
• 2022-11-29 — ABC managing director defends journos and chair at senate estimates
• 2022-11-08 — ABC senate estimates immediately gets heated
• 2022-11-01 — ABC staff had ‘mixed response’ over Parramatta office move
• 2022-06-14 — ABC managing director defends archival staff redundancies
• 2022-06-08 — Fifty-eight roles to be cut at ABC as it becomes ‘digital-first’
• 2022-04-27 — Election 2022: Independents don’t meet Vote Compass criteria, says ABC
• 2022-02-06 — Public broadcasters welcome extra funding as freeze on ABC indexation lifted
• 2021-08-09 — ABC warns staff against ‘poorly judged’ social media activity
• 2021-07-29 — Coroner investigating death of Porter’s accuser to access ABC documents
• 2021-06-03 — Senate to hear more details from ABC on Porter defamation case
• 2021-05-31 — Porter pulls plug on defamation suit against ABC over historical rape allegation
• 2021-05-17 — Judge halts Christian Porter ABC defamation case over alleged conflict of interest
• 2021-05-07 — Christian Porter asks to keep ABC defence confidential in defamation suit
• 2021-03-15 — Seeking vindication, Christian Porter sues ABC for defamation
• 2020-11-10 — ‘One side of politics’: Morrison paints ABC affair reports as bias, dodging questions about investigations
• 2020-09-08 — It’s not only News Corp and the Coalition. The ABC is a victim of its own culture wars
• 2020-08-04 — The briefing: How will the ABC handle this next phase of Coalition funding cuts?
• 2019-10-21 — Public sector unions lob ‘wage theft’ allegations at Vic government, ABC
• 2019-10-11 — No help from the helpline: ABC uncovers new ‘bureaucratic bungles’ in Hakeem Al-Araibi case
• 2019-06-04 — Our ABC: A bipartisan corporation?
• 2019-05-05 — ABC searches high and low but finds the right managing director already in the office
• 2018-10-15 — Mike Mrdak’s ABC review: Milne told Guthrie to sack ABC journalists of his own accord
• 2018-09-27 — ABC boss Justin Milne falls on his sword
• 2018-09-27 — ABC Board Chair over-reaches in a bid to appease hostile government
• 2018-09-27 — How ABC chairman Justin Milne compromised the independence of the national broadcaster
• 2018-09-26 — ABC chairman’s fate in the hands of Mike Mrdak
• 2018-09-26 — ABC staff applause for Guthrie’s sacking turns to fury at chairman’s call to sacrifice Alberici
• 2018-09-25 — Streaming the ABC’s ‘Jesuits’: Michelle Guthrie’s hard lesson for digital leaders
• 2018-09-24 — ABC board ousts Michelle Guthrie
• 2018-07-04 — Media outlets boycott forum of governments in wake of ABC ban
• 2018-05-31 — ATO vs ABC: taxman pours scorn on Four Corners in estimates

Passing mentions (10 shown)

Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.

• 2026-08-26 — ‘Bridge too far’: Commissioner calls out WA GST attack
• 2026-08-17 — Minister bats away proposal for disability inspector-general
• 2026-07-26 — ACT public servants could face criminal charges
• 2026-07-20 — Public service to get AI guardrails for a fairer system
• 2026-07-16 — PM’s department tells Hume to do her research
• 2026-07-15 — Standards for AI, data centres unveiled in major speech
• 2026-07-13 — Digital arrival card rolled out to streamline travel
• 2026-07-12 — Monday Briefing: Australia-India relations
• 2026-07-08 — NSW ombud raises ‘black cladding’ concerns about Indigenous procurement
• 2026-07-06 — Negative vetting clearance costs surge 50%

Year by year

An empty cell means no publishable row for that year — unknown, not nil. Never read a blank as a fall to zero.

Sources — annual reports

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° The portal does not publish a path for this report, so the link opens the agency's reports on transparency.gov.au rather than that year directly. Pick the year from there.

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