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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation was established on the 1st of July 1932 as the Australian Broadcasting Commission, under the Australian Broadcasting Commission Act 1932. It was renamed the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1983, effective the 1st of July of that year.
The ABC is primarily funded by the Australian federal government through taxpayer appropriations, reviewed on a multi-year cycle. It also generates minor revenue through ABC Commercial, its commercial arm. Listener licence fees were abolished on the 18th of September 1974 by the Whitlam Labor government.
On the 5th of June 2019, Australian Federal Police raided the ABC's Sydney headquarters searching for documents related to articles published in 2017 about alleged misconduct by Australian special forces in Afghanistan, known as the Afghan Files. The AFP sought to examine over 9,200 documents. The recommended charges against journalist Dan Oakes were ultimately dropped by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions in October 2020.
The ABC operates five free-to-air television channels including ABC TV, ABC News Channel, ABC Kids, ABC Family, and ABC Entertains. Its radio network includes four national stations (Radio National, ABC Classic, ABC NewsRadio, and Triple J), eight metropolitan stations, and 45 regional stations. It also provides the free streaming services ABC iview and ABC listen.
PO Box 9994 is the postal address of the ABC in every Australian capital city, chosen as a tribute to the Test batting average of Australian cricketer Sir Donald Bradman, which stands at 99.94.
In December 2023, the ABC dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf three days into a five-day presenting role at ABC Radio Sydney after she reposted a Human Rights Watch post about Gaza on her personal Instagram account. In September 2025, the Federal Court ruled the termination unlawful. Justice Darryl Rangiah found the ABC had acted to appease pro-Israel lobbyists, in breach of the Fair Work Act, and ordered the corporation to pay Lattouf $220,000 in compensation and penalties.