The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 May 2019:
The ABC is facing
"inevitable" job cuts and programming disruption if the Morrison government
is returned to power, the national broadcaster's new managing director has
warned.
In his first interview
in the new job, David Anderson told Radio National's Patricia Karvelas that
planning for two possible budget scenarios was at the top of his to-do list,
after establishing a new leadership team.
One of those options is
a budget in which the ABC's indexation funding is frozen for the next three
years.
"If the Coalition
is returned, then we have an $84 million budget reduction over the next three
years," Mr Anderson said.
"Having been
through a number of budget reductions to this point, I don’t see how we can
avoid staff cuts and, I think, disruption to our content. I think it’s
inevitable."
None of the options
available for finding $84 million in savings were great, he said.
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