Correspondents Report
{{Short description|Australian radio program}}
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| presenter = Thomas Oriti
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Correspondents Report was a weekend news and current affairs program broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National and ABC Local Radio networks, from at least 1974 until 2019.
History
Correspondents Report has been running since at least 1974.{{cite report|url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/publications/tabledpapers/HPP032016009612/upload_pdf/HPP032016009612.pdf;fileType=application%2Fpdf#search=%22publications/tabledpapers/HPP032016009612%22| series=Parliamentary Paper No. 19/1976|publisher=The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia |author= Australian Broadcasting Commission |title= Forty-third Annual Report For Year 1974-75|date=1976| access-date=16 February 2021 }} (Access via [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:%22publications/tabledpapers/HPP032016009612%22;src1=sm1 Parliament website].
Freelance reporter Roger East was covering the Indonesian insurgence in 1975, and was first to file the story of the killing of the Balibo Five in October. He was the sole remaining foreign journalist in Portuguese Timor at the time, He filed his last report for Correspondents Report on afternoon of 7 December 1975 before he was executed by Indonesian soldiers the following day.{{cite web | title=Roger East 1922-1975, journalist| website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation | url=https://www.abc.net.au/corp/memorial/rogereast.htm | access-date=16 February 2021}}{{cite web | title=Nine murders, no prosecutions. | website=MEAA | date=29 April 2020 | url=https://pressfreedom.org.au/nine-murders-no-prosecutions-62b65808d418 | access-date=16 February 2021}}
The last available episode of Correspondents Report is dated 10 February 2019, presented by Thomas Oriti.{{cite web | title=Episodes - Correspondents Report | website=ABC Radio | date=10 October 2003 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/correspondentsreport/episodes/ | access-date=16 February 2021}} After this date, the program appears to have been incorporated into Sunday Extra, hosted by Julian Morrow.{{cite web | title=Foreign Correspondent: Latest Segments | website=ABC Radio | url=https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/correspondentsreport/latest-segments/10858602 | access-date=16 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210216073931/https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/correspondentsreport/latest-segments/10858602?page=7|archive-date=16 Feb 2021}}
Archives
Transcripts of the programs are available from July 1999, and podcasts are available of more recent programs.{{cite web | title=Correspondents Report - Archives | website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation | url=https://www.abc.net.au/correspondents/archives.html?year=1999 | access-date=16 February 2021}}{{cite web | title=Archive - Correspondents Report | website=ABC Radio | url=https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/correspondentsreport/archive/ | access-date=16 February 2021}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{official|https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/correspondentsreport/}}
Category:Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio programs
Category:ABC News and Current Affairs
Category:Australian news radio programs
Category:1970s Australian radio programs
Category:1980s Australian radio programs
Category:1990s Australian radio programs
Category:2000s Australian radio programs
Category:2010s Australian radio programs
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