The Latest Breaking News from QA

Popular host of morning program will remain at public broadcaster and says ‘life circumstances’ are behind television return

In this week’s Media Briefs, Stan Grant resigns from the ABC altogether, Ita sets sail, and David Anderson locks in another term.

Q+A’s executive producer, Erin Vincent, quits the ABC. Plus: News Corp staff told to pay for print copies of SMH and AFR

This week: Stan Grant’s Q+A exit; Sky News finding its Voice; some quarterly results; and Oz camera operators break protocol during PM’s visit to NZ.

An Australian businessman was given a $9 million Home Affairs contract in 2018 despite then-minister Peter Dutton being told the man was being investigated for bribery, and China’s trade bans on coal, wine and lobsters scarcely touched Australia’s economy because new markets were found.

Former Labor minister Gary Johns faces calls to resign for comments he wrote published in a book last year

ABC News boss Justin Stevens says Grant will stay with the ABC and work on ‘new projects’ and a ‘number of different’ programs.

RN Breakfast host Patricia Karvelas will replace high-profile Indigenous journalist, who quit after being the target of racist abuse

The Australian Monarchist League is not impressed with the ‘Clayton’s apology’ for what it called the ABC’s ‘biased’ coverage.