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ABC managing director David Anderson announces resignation
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8/23/2024
David Anderson will remain in the ABC role until a new managing director is appointed.
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For me it is the right time for me and it's the right time for the ABC and it wasn't an easy
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decision to make. It's been an honour and a privilege to have been in the role for this
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period of time, in fact to the work for the ABC for 35 years and I've haven't come to it lightly
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but I have been in discussion with Kim Williams about it. Kim of course has tried to talk me out
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of it a number of times but look when you know you know and I've made my decision and I've advised
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Kim so I'll be in the role until the new managing director starts which conceivably could be
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March next year so I'll be here for some time here. There are definite moments where in that
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first week where people were quite concerned about political interference into the ABC
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and I stepped into the role in what was a chaotic time that certainly was challenging but again I'm
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proud of proud of the role that I played and I'm proud of the proud of the role that everyone else
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played through that period and I think that you know certainly backing our people our
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journalism through that period of time held us in good stead with the Australian people.
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Well the pressure's been constant can I say for the entire period of time and you don't enter
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into these roles lightly. Of course it's difficult to know the pressure that you're going to experience
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until you're in it but I have to say the pressure has been constant. There hasn't been one particular
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thing that's happened to me over this period of time. I think that these roles are quite demanding
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you throw everything at it and if I look at the ABC at the moment the ABC is in very good shape.
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I've really enjoyed defending public interest journalism, our journalists, our commitment to
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telling Australian stories, our commitment across regional or remote Australia and increasing our
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numbers there. For everything that we've done over those six years I'm quite proud of what the
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ABC's achieved in that time and looking ahead I just I just feel it's the right
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time for renewal and I think it's the right time for me.
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