Senior ABC journalist Mr Matt Peacock will speak at the Central Coast Leagues Club from on Friday, August 15, as the guest speaker for the Central Coast branch of the Friends of the ABC.
Mr Peacock has become the first staffelected director of the public broadcaster since the Gillard government reinstated the position. Mr Peacock, a former London, New York and Washington correspondent, beat eight other candidates to the job.
Approximately 1,800 ABC staff voted in the postal ballot, which was overseen by the Australian Electoral Commission. Mr Peacock, who began his career with the ABC in 1973 as a trainee with the television current affairs program ‘This Day Tonight’, went on to be chief political correspondent for ABC radio current affairs in Canberra.
He is also the author of ‘Killer Company’, which was made into the ABC dramatic mini-series ‘Devil’s Dust’. He has also been an award-winning foreign correspondent and chief political correspondent for ‘AM, PM’ and ‘The World Today’.
Email, 2 Jul 2014
Klaas Woldring,
Friends