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Australian journalist, producer, and broadcaster

Allan Ashbolt
BornAllan Campbell Ashbolt
24 November 1921
Melbourne, Australia
Died9 June 2005(2005-06-09) (aged 83)
Sydney, Australia
EducationCaulfield Grammar School
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • producer
  • broadcaster

Allan Campbell Ashbolt (24 November 1921 – 9 June 2005) was an Australian journalist, producer, and broadcaster.

Early life

He was born in Melbourne and attended Caulfield Grammar School. He served with the Australian Imperial Force in World War II. Following the war, Ashbolt began acting and helped establish the Mercury Theatre with Peter Finch among others. He appeared in government documentary films. Ashbolt was a film librarian at the NSW Film Council in the mid-fifties, before he was hired by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) as a producer.

Career

In 1959 he was appointed as the ABC's first North America correspondent. In 1963 he served as a correspondent and executive producer of Four Corners, which has become Australia's longest-running investigative journalism/current affairs television program. He was known for his belief that the ABC — which had been and was almost entirely conservative at the time — should promote free speech and controversial political content. Ashbolt held senior positions at the ABC, until retiring after a 25-year career with the network. He also wrote for the New Statesman, a leftist British political magazine.

In July 1975, Ashbolt produced "Pederasty", an ABC Radio program that featured an interview with "three men in their thirties who admitted sex relations with boys, and a teenage boy who said he had been involved in such relationships since he was 12".

He died in Sydney in June 2005.

See also

References

  1. "Allan Ashbolt war service details". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
  2. Horner, Jack (2004). Seeking Racial Justice: An Insider's Memoir of the Movement for Aboriginal Advancement, 1938–1978. Aboriginal Studies Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-85575-468-6.
  3. "RSL Story", abc.net.au. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  4. "Police get complaint over ABC program". The Sydney Morning Herald. 15 July 1975. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  5. "Tape of program for vice squad". The Sydney Morning Herald. 16 July 1975. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  6. "Radical giant of Australian broadcasting". The Sydney Morning Herald. 15 June 2005. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  7. "Journalist Alan Ashbolt dies at 83". www.abc.net.au. 9 June 2005. Retrieved 2 July 2020.

External links

  • Bowman, David (15 June 2005). "The lion of the ABC". Australian Policy Online. Archived from the original on 13 June 2011.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) Retrieved 28 April 2017.

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