ABOUT four ABC Canberra staffers will lose their jobs and the 7.45am radio news bulletin on 666 Canberra will be cut following a funding indexation pause announced by the federal government in 2018. 

About 250 jobs will be axed and more programming will be cut nation-wide, reports ABC News.

The ACT Greens says they are outraged by the job loses at ABC Canberra, saying they’re aware that a director, an editor, a camera operator and someone in administration will lose jobs. 

ACT Greens leader Shane Rattenbury says the flagship 7.45am radio news bulletin on 666 Canberra will be replaced with an extra 15 minutes of local programming on Lish Fejer’s Breakfast Show. There will also be a new local five minute radio news bulletin at 8am, with AM still to follow.

“These cuts are an attack on public broadcasting, an attack on independent, quality journalism, and an attack on democratic principles,” Mr Rattenbury says. 

“In an era of fake news and state-sponsored disinformation, the need for impartial and unbiased media has never been more important.

“The Greens strongly oppose the budget cuts inflicted on the ABC by the Federal Liberal Government.

“The ACT Greens join with our colleagues across Australia in condemning these cuts, and call on the federal government to reverse this outrageous decision.”

Today on ABC News, the managing director David Anderson said a flagship radio news bulletin would go, the ABC Life lifestyle portal would be rebranded, and programs would be reviewed as part of a major overhaul of the national broadcaster.