ABC Managing Director David Anderson told Senate Estimates last night that the ABC has reached a deal with Facebook and Google under Australia's media bargaining code.

The deal will see the multinational digital companies pay Australia's national broadcaster for using its content in search results and in social media posts, which the ABC intends to reinvest in regional services.

David Anderson told the Senate Estimates Committee:

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has delivered the federal budget with a focus on "creating jobs and rebuilding the economy," as Australia continues to recover from the covid pandemic and to keep it at a very low level compared with the rest of the world.

"Australia is coming back. In the face of a once‑in‑a‑century pandemic, the Australian spirit has shone through," he told Parliament tonight in his budget speech.

After 46 years working for the ABC, radio and tv reporter Philip Williams has decided to retire.

Beginning as a junior stage hand at the ABC's Northbourne Ave studios in Canberra in 1975, Williams moved across to the News Department and has had an illiustrious career since then.

The ABC will cover Anzac Day services in all states and territories on Sunday 25 April as marches return to towns and cities across the country.

Live coverage of state and territory dawn services as well as the National Dawn Service and Ceremony from Canberra will be carried across all ABC platforms.  There will also be coverage of Light up the Dawn when Australians will mark a minute’s silence wherever they are – from their driveways, balconies, front gates or farm gates.

Rachel Corbett (Head of Podcast and Digital Content, NOVA), Henrik Isaksson, (Regional Managing Director, Acast), Corey Layton (Head of Digital Audio, ARN/iHeart), Tanya Nolan (Head of Audio News, ABC, Australia) and Jaime Chaux  (Head Of Digital - Commercial Radio Australia) joined moderator James Cridland to discuss how Australia is both collaborating and competing in the podcasting space.

The ABC will mark Internation

Jim Graham had also worked for the ABC in Queensland, at Melbourne radio stations 3MP and 3UZ, 3GL Geelong and Bendigo's 3BO.

He was still presenting the afternoon news until a few weeks ago, when he took leave after suffering a heart attack.

He had been recovering in hospital and at home, but died on the weekend.

Just over half of all Australians (54%) trust journalists, while 32% do not trust them much and 15% do not trust them at all.

The figures come from the latest interactive data made available by the ABC from its national survey of nearly 55,000 people across every State and Territory and in every federal electorate.

Recent immigrants don’t trust journalists very much, but those who have been here longer have more trust. Perhaps this is due to the countries where recent immigrants come from, where media is less free and journalists are less scrupulous.

Dr Norman Swan, Tegan Taylor and Will Ockenden have won a Walkley Award in the Radio/Audio: News & Current Affairs category for Coronacast.