To add onto what Hanrahan said, it’s also one of our state-funded channels (along with Special Broadcasting Service) so it’s a lot less commercialised. There are plenty of good shows started there and it’s sometimes a lot closer to indie content.
I highly recommend trying to find episodes of You Can’t Ask That (even if you have to torrent it), and if you like mockumentaries like The Office, I recommend Utopia (not to be confused with other shows elsewhere called Utopia), many clips are on YouTube to sample.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 22 hours ago
It’s ok but I’d regard it as center right after years of fuckery from the LNP. You just have to look at the Lattouf incident
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-24/…/105810052
and its coverage if our left party The Greens is appalling, while a lot of sucking up to the loony ONP
It’s closest to the PBS in the US and the BBC in the UK I guess, and certainly not dissimilar to the BBC and their similar fawning obsequiesness to Reform.