The Labor government will search for a new chair of the national broadcaster after Ita Buttrose said she would not seek a second term.
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland has revealed that ABC chair Ita Buttrose will not seek reappointment when her five-year term ends in March.
“There is still work to be done between now and March next year. Until then, it is business as usual.”by then-prime minister Scott Morrison, Buttrose was not one of the names included in a shortlist compiled by an independent selection panel at the time, following a search by global recruitment firm Korn Ferry. She is the second woman to hold the position, after Dame Leonie Kramer in the 1980s.
Jonathan Holmes, chair of the ABC Alumni, said on behalf of the group: “Despite being Scott Morrison’s ‘captain’s pick’, Ita Buttrose has been a stalwart defender of the ABC’s independence. However, ABC Alumni hope Anthony Albanese will choose her successor from candidates selected on merit by the nomination panel, as the ABC Act expects.”“I’m mulling it over,” Buttrose told ABC Melbourne’s Virginia Trioli, when asked about staying on for another term as chair.
A government spokesperson said there was no set timeframe for the selection process to begin, which would include the role being advertised publicly. The independent panel includes Daryl Karp, appointed in June, with the panel’s chair, Helen Williams, also reappointed. Other members of the panel are Catherine Liddle and Derek Wilding.after pressure from Buttrose over a perceived conflict with her directorship at a Telstra-affiliated company.
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