The Australian has hit back at Fiona Stanley's criticism of the newspaper after an article yesterday where Stanley took aim at The Oz for what she said was a "vicious and sustained campaign" against the national broadcaster.

ABC board member Fiona Stanley has spoken out against News Limited's campaign against the ABC in a column in today's Sydney Morning Herald.

She says the ABC finds itself in a situation where "a major commercial news organisation is denigrating the ABC with a vicious, sustained campaign which is extremely damaging to our public broadcaster and to the nation."