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Lunch with Eddie Izzard keeps you on your toes.

Shakespeare, trans politics and tigers: Lunch with Eddie Izzard is a dizzying business

The British comedian/actor/runner/political aspirant has some left-of-field stories to tell.

  • Nick Galvin

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Watch: Pauline Hanson and senior staffer clash over ejecting ABC journalists

The One Nation leader and her chief-of-staff clashed over his decision to kick the national broadcaster out of a media event on the eve of the Farrer byelection.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Robbie Buck got his start in Sydney radio on 2SER.

It’s the station where I got my first Sydney broadcasting shift. Now it could all be over

UTS spends millions each year on consultants but is threatening to defund the radio station that kicked off many stellar careers.

  • Robbie Buck
More than 100 greyhounds have died racing this year alone.

Wentworth Park closure a start: next, ban greyhound racing

The news that NSW Labor will use the site for wider community purposes is welcome – but they will give the industry $10 million so that this cruel sport can continue elsewhere.

ABC boss Hugh Marks during a National Press Club address on Wednesday.

‘We can’t be defensive’: ABC boss says it won’t operate in fear

The public broadcaster’s managing director, Hugh Marks, says it’s better served by owning up to its mistakes quickly, but should not be afraid to push back against unfair criticism.

  • Calum Jaspan and Millie Muroi
Hugh Marks has hit out at the opportunistic attempts to bring the ABC into the BBC, Trump saga.

ABC boss slams ‘opportunistic’ attempts to conflate BBC crisis with Four Corners report

ABC managing director Hugh Marks has backed the 2021 Four Corners report on Donald Trump and the January 6 Capitol riots, saying the editing did not mislead viewers.

  • Calum Jaspan
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For all the angst over right-wing pressure from the likes of Donald Trump, the real power in London and Canberra lies with Labor and Labour.

A Trump doco has plunged the BBC into crisis. The critics have a point

Public broadcasters like the ABC and BBC are under huge pressure from the political right, but they won’t survive by refusing to admit mistakes.

  • Jonathan Holmes
Ita Buttrose.

Never in her wildest dreams did Ita imagine her career would go the way it did

Now 83 and slowed only by her declining mobility, Ita Buttrose remains as sharp and opinionated as ever as she reflects on her six decades in the media.

  • Greg Callaghan
Bowing and scraping is undignified but part of the royal protocols.

‘Just weird to kneel in front of another adult’: Turns out the notion of royalty is quite funny

There’s just so much that is weird about the rituals that lend the royals glamour but keep us humble.

  • Esther Anatolitis
Many at the ABC still aren’t quite sure what to expect of ex-Nine chief Hugh Marks.

Awkward confessions, scandal headlines and a new life at the ABC: Hugh Marks’ story

The former Nine boss found himself in the unlikely role of protagonist in a romantic drama.

  • Jordan Baker