Gerard Henderson

Remembering Dr Frank Knopfelmacher – Michael Easson & Gerard Henderson [Zoom]

2024-05-03T10:56:29+10:005 April 2024|Tags: , |

Michael Easson   Gerard Henderson - Executive Director, The Sydney Institute; columnist, The Australian   Topic: Remembering Dr Frank Knopfelmacher Date: Tuesday 7 May 2024 Time: 6pm-7pm Venue: Delivered via Zoom PLEASE NOTE: THIS MEETING IS FOR PAID ASSOCIATE MEMBERS OF THE SYDNEY INSTITUTE ONLY & 1 GUEST - If you would like to renew your membership or [...]

REMEMBERING GEORGE PELL – GERARD HENDERSON

2026-05-28T10:40:31+10:0024 January 2024|Categories: Paper|Tags: , |

Cardinal George Pell died in Rome on 10 January 2023. After years of fighting the charges laid by Victoria Police, and subsequently found guilty by a Victorian court, George Pell had those charges overturned by a unanimous verdict of the High Court of Australia. Frank Brennan SJ AO, in an address to The Sydney Institute on [...]

THE ABC IN CRISIS?

2026-05-28T10:48:00+10:006 July 2023|Categories: Paper|Tags: , |

As debate continued over the ABC’s fall in ratings, Managing Director David Anderson announced the ABC would be moving from broadcast radio to streamed or on-demand audio and that the organisation needed a “digital first” structure. Gerard Henderson, Executive Director of The Sydney Institute and a columnist for The Australian where his Media Watch Dog [...]

THE ABC IN CRISIS?

2026-05-28T10:48:08+10:0014 June 2023|Categories: Paper|Tags: , |

With its ratings down, its presenters in the news rather than reporting the news, and debate over its charter and more besides, the question in 2023 was what's happening at the ABC? Sydney Institute executive director and weekly columnist for The Australian Gerard Henderson is both a viewer and listener of the ABC and a [...]

The ABC in Crisis? – Gerard Henderson [Face-to-face]

2023-06-06T12:45:59+10:006 June 2023|Tags: |

Speaker: Gerard Henderson - Executive Director The Sydney Institute, columnist for The Australian and author of The Sydney Institute's Media Watch Dog blog Date: Wednesday 14 June 2023 Time: 5.30 for 6pm Venue:  The Sydney Institute, 47 Phillip Street (between Bent & Bridge Streets) Sydney NSW 2000 PLEASE NOTE: THIS MEETING IS FOR PAID ASSOCIATE MEMBERS OF THE SYDNEY [...]

The ABC in Crisis? – Gerard Henderson [Zoom]

2023-06-06T12:45:59+10:006 June 2023|Tags: |

Speaker: Gerard Henderson - Executive Director The Sydney Institute, columnist for The Australian and author of The Sydney Institute's Media Watch Dog blog Date: Wednesday 14 June 2023 Time: 6pm Venue: Online [A link will be sent on the morning of the event] PLEASE NOTE: THIS MEETING IS FOR PAID ASSOCIATE MEMBERS OF THE SYDNEY INSTITUTE ONLY & 1 [...]

What’s wrong with mentioning ABC is funded by us?

2023-04-24T09:33:33+10:0022 April 2023|Categories: Gerard Henderson's Weekly Column|Tags: |

The taxpayer-funded public broadcaster spends a lot of time talking about itself. So it came as no surprise on Monday when ABC News reported that it had received a new label on Twitter branding the broadcaster as “government-funded media”. According to the ABC, the Twitter label is meant to provide additional context for accounts heavily [...]

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