ABC News (Australia)

ABC News
Company typeDivision of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
IndustryBroadcast media
Founded1 June 1947 (1947-06-01)
HeadquartersABC Ultimo Centre
700 Harris Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Area served
Australia, Worldwide[a]
Key people
  • Justin Stevens
    (Director News, Analysis & Investigations)
ServicesTelevision, radio, online
ParentAustralian Broadcasting Corporation
Websiteabc.net.au/news

ABC News, also known as ABC News and Current Affairs and overseas as ABC Australia, is a public news service produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Broadcasting within Australia and the rest of the world, the service covers both local and world affairs.

The division of the organisation ABC News, Analysis and Investigations is responsible for all news-gathering and coverage across the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's various television, radio, and online platforms. Some of the services included under the auspices of the division are its 24-hour news channel ABC News (formerly ABC News 24), the long-running radio news programs, AM, The World Today, and PM; ABC NewsRadio, a 24-hour continuous news radio channel; and radio news bulletins and programs on ABC Local Radio, ABC Radio National, ABC Classic FM, and Triple J.

ABC News Online has an extensive online presence which includes many written news reports and videos available via ABC Online, an ABC News mobile app (ABC Listen), podcasts, and in addition, all of the ABC news television programs available via the video-on-demand platform, ABC iview. As of 2021, the ABC News website includes ABC Sport, ABC Health, ABC Science, ABC Arts & Culture, ABC Fact Check, ABC Environment, and news in other languages.

Justin Stevens was appointed director of the division on 31 March 2022. The ABC is statutorily required to deliver news impartially, editorially, and presents opinions from all sides of Australian politics. Its flagship national current affairs programs hosted for many years by journalists with strong Australian Labor Party connections, such as former Labor staffers Kerry O'Brien and Barrie Cassidy, Labor MP Maxine McKew, and newsreader Juanita Phillips (partner of Labor Cabinet Minister Greg Combet). Chief Political Correspondent Laura Tingle is a strident critic of conservative politics in Australia.

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