CULTURAL DIVERSITY AT THE ABC

Helen Vatsikopoulos takes a look at cultural diversity at the ABC. The results may surprise you.

That response ignores the ABC Charter requirement that the broadcaster “contribute to a sense of national identity” and “reflect the cultural diversity of the Australian community,” and that it “take account of the multicultural character of the Australian community.

Jakubowicz lays the blame for a monocultural ABC at the very top. “The board has been systematically ethnically cleansed for generations by political parties of all colours,” he says – and there has never been anyone to insist on diversity and there is not likely to be in future either.