Tag: ABC

  • It’s time to re-evaluate the ABC’s ties with ACON

    A non-partisan coalition of feminist and LGB groups has written to Kim Williams, ABC Chair, to express our concerns about the ABC’s relationship with the advocacy group ACON. We are especially concerned that the ABC’s membership of ACON/Pride in Diversity and its participation in ACON’s Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) compromises the ABC’s independence and undermines the…

  • Email to Fiona Cameron Ombudsman ABC Hobart Radio complaint

    Women Speak Tasmania letter to Fiona Cameron- ABC Ombudsman, with a complain about Leon Compton bias interview with Louise Elliot COMPLAINT: ABC Hobart Radio Leon Compton Interview with Louise Elliot We wish to make a complaint about the ABC Radio Tasmania Mornings host Leon Compton and his interview with Independent Candidate for Clarke and Hobart…

  • Rebuttal to Four Corners, BLOCKED: The battle over youth gender care

    Dianna T Kenny PhD On 10 July the ABC Four Corners presented a program entitled, “BLOCKED”2 about gender dysphoria and its treatment in young people. I was so concerned by the coverage that I felt it incumbent upon me to provide a more balanced account of the current state of research in the care of gender…

  • Correspondence to the ABC Ombudsman Fiona Cameron

    Below is a series of emails to Fiona Cameron, where WST comments about the ABC biased reporting on gender identity law reforms. Dear Fiona, Complaint:  ABC Tasmania biased reportage on gender identity law reforms I am writing to you to further my complaint already sent to ABC Hobart Manager Marcus Cheek and what I consider…

  • Email to Marcus Cheek ABC Media Watch

    Below is a series of emails sent by Women Speak Tasmania to Marcus Cheek, in our efforts to make him aware of bias reporting on the ABC Dear Marcus, I would like to draw your attention to the recent program on ABC Media Watch with Paul Barry criticising the ABC for its lack of coverage…

  • ‘Don’t call predators pedophiles’ ABC tells reporters in leaked email

    ABC reporters in Tasmania have been told to “avoid” referring to child sex abusers as pedophiles, to avoid marginalising people with pedophilia. An email sent to all news staff this week advises against the use of the term “pedophile”, even to describe those who have serially abused children over many years. The edict followed a…