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- ABC’s internal politics remain “positively toxic” despite successive management’s culture-improvement attempts.
- Coalition governments actively hostile toward ABC while both major parties neglect the broadcaster.
- News Corporation monitors ABC and amplifies every error, casting it as a rival agenda-setter.
- Many ABC staff perform unpaid overtime and report high stress, treating their jobs as vocations.
- Funding scarcity fuels program-centric cliques that resist change and view management as adversaries.