ABC Chair quotes JD Vance in speech calling for funding to rebuild ‘a distinctive ABC voice and ethos’

ABC Chair Kim Williams delivered the 2024 John Monash Oration on Wednesday, presented by the General Sir John Monash Foundation, Sydney.

Throughout the wide-ranging speech, Williams called for “a recommitment to objectivity”, and cited stark stats from the Pew Research Centre that show a third of Americans aged between 18 and 29 are regularly getting their news from TikTok.

He called for increased government funding, and declared: “In every area of the ABC, we need ambition, ambition, and more ambition.”