Patrick Mullins

Patrick Mullins is a Canberra-based writer. He is a Visiting Fellow at the National Centre for Biography, ANU, and co-author, with Matthew Ricketson, of  Who needs the ABC? (2022).

All essays by Patrick Mullins

Review: Patrick MullinsMatthew Ricketsonon public broadcasting
  • The BBC: A people’s history by David Hendy Profile Books
    638pp
    Published January 2022
    ISBN: 978781255254
  • The War Against the BBC: How an unprecedented combination of hostile forces is destroying Britain’s greatest cultural institution… And why you should care by Patrick Barwise and Peter York Penguin
    528pp
    Published November 2020
    ISBN: 9780141989402

How To Scuttle A Public Broadcaster

The ABC may not anymore be in the immediate peril that the BBC is, but the danger remains broadly the same. If we want to save the ABC from that danger, then taking it for granted will no longer be an option.
Oct. 2022 •