News and Current Affairs
With 58 news bureaux across Australia, 13 international offices and more than 75 years experience recording people, places and events, the ABC has been well placed to document the dramatic, the uplifting and the unbelievable events that have shaped the 20th century.
From World Wars to the fall of dictators, peace protests to terrorism, the ABC’s cameras have been there, creating an enviable sound and vision archive. They’ve recorded our political leaders from Menzies to Whitlam, from Hawke and Keating to Howard, the changes in Indonesian society, the return of Hong Kong, the dismantling of the USSR, and the crises in The Balkans and the Middle East.
And the ABC continues to lead the way in the new millennium. Award-winning news and current affairs programs such as ABC Radio’s AM and PM and ABC TV’s current affairs strands Four Corners and Foreign Correspondent, continue to populate the ABC News Collection with world-class sounds and images.
When added to the archival audio news coverage from the 1930s and news footage from the 1950s on, and supplemented by the AP Archive Collection, the ABC News Collection can offer a perspective which is more than just the headlines.
