The ABC, its Archives and its Audiences

This project aims to enable deeper understandings of the role of Australia’s principal public service broadcaster in the lives of audience members across the country, and the community needs and interests that have shaped it. The project, in partnership with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the National Archives of Australia, is significant because it will uncover and interpret paper records relating to listeners and viewers during the broadcaster’s first 50 years. Expected outcomes of the project include an enlarged and more discoverable media archive for the benefit of researchers, industry and all Australians; an audience-centred approach to the ABC’s history; and enhanced academic, archival and media collaborations.