The ABC chair faced former ABC presenter Kerry O’Brien in the unlikely setting of a holiday hot spot.
, who rolled into the sun and celebrity-drenched northern NSW hamlet of Byron Bay for the latest edition of the Kim Williams Show on the weekend at the Byron Writers Festival. Williams was joined on stage by another big beast of the media landscape, former ABC presenter“I need to be careful because words get used,” said Williams, before discovering that when O’Brien is in search of a news hook, no one can avoid a KO’B KO.
Funding cuts had made the organisation “somewhat more timid”, “very much less confident” and “unfortunately in my view very much more interior focused”, Williams said.He said a prominent but unnamed politician had given him his views about ABC news and current affairs “in fairly Anglo Celtic terms”.He said local radio was “in a rebuild phase” after a decade of neglect and must provide “the pulse of the city”.
“I mean, heaven forbid we upset the French! . . . the great disadvantage of upsetting the French is what, exactly? And the great restoration in that relationship has delivered what, exactly?”
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