Powerful women as change agents in politics and media

Recent appointments and events reflect powerful women at the helm of politics and media. Powerful Google executive, Michelle Guthrie, has been appointed the new head of the ABC following Mark Scott, who has been managing director since 2006.  She has called her new role with the public broadcaster as an “
extraordinary platform’’ to keep  the nation informed of news and current affairs across digital, mobile, television and radio services and to mirror Australian culture in its programming.

And she has hinted on allowing advertising to boost the ABC coffers in the wake of shrinking federal government funding.

Guthrie sees one of the challenges will be to ensure that the ABC adapts and changes to the evolving needs of Australian viewers and to ensure the ABC continues to show “unique Australian stories”

“It’s those unique Australian stories which will keep the ABC  relevant to Australians of all ages,’’ she said.

“It’s a fantastic opportunity to lead this organisation and to face key challenges, to determine what audiences desire and we must adapt and change very quickly…”

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The recent meeting between Australia’s and Indonesia’s foreign and defence ministers in Canberra heralds a whole new ballgame in the evolution of female political power in the tough areas of foreign affairs and defence.

Three of the four government ministers were women – Australia’s foreign minister, Julie Bishop and Indonesia’s counterpart, Retno Marsudi and Australia’s defence minister, Marise Payne.

On the agenda was planning to counter news that terror organisation ISIS has plans to establish a far-off caliphate in Indonesia – on Australia’s doorstep.

 

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