ABC News (Australia)

ABC News is the news service of Australia's public broadcaster, the ABC. The corporation was created in 1932, its editorial independence is secured in statute, and it is funded from the federal budget without advertising.

Its most distinctive capability is disaster coverage. Australia lives with bushfires, floods and cyclones, and in those conditions the ABC's regional radio network functions as the official emergency information channel, interrupting the schedule to carry local warnings. That is the concrete and vital meaning of public broadcasting.

ABC News broadcasts as a rolling news channel and has particular depth in coverage of the Asia-Pacific.