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ABC delivers a largely controversy-free New Year's Eve broadcast (The Sydney Morning Herald)

After some disastrous New Year's Eve telecasts, the ABC managed to successfully tap-dance its way into 2023.

She, as always, smashed it out of the park with a five-song set. Ball Park Music and Electric Fields also owned the stage late in the night with a jubilant run of iconic dance tunes. To that end, the 2022 passage to 2023 ticked all the boxes, and ticked them well.

ABC blasted over 'woke snooze fest' fireworks coverage (Sky News Australia)

The ABC's coverage of Sydney's world-famous New Year's Eve fireworks has been blasted online as “a disgrace” and out of touch.

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ABC blasted for 'tragic' NYE 'snoozefest' (NEWS.com.au)

In an Aussie tradition now as common as singing 'Auld lang syne' the ABC has once again come under fire for its live NYE broadcast. 4 min read.

“This is the worst programming for NYE ever. [December 31, 2022] It’s all a bit too mellow and sombre at times,” said one. [#NYEABC] [December 31, 2022] [#NYEABC] [#NYE2023] [pic.twitter.com/UZLqojVdeD] [December 31, 2022] [#nyeabc]unwatchable woke nonsense [December 31, 2022] [#NYEABC]LOVE IT [@courtneyact]L O V E I T [#worldpride] [December 31, 2022]

Millions of Australians ring in the new year with ABC (TV Blackbox)

Celebrations kicked off with The Early Night Show, hosted by Rhys Nicholson, Casey Donovan and Gemma Driscoll, bringing all the family-friendly fun in the lead ...

No-one does NYE like we do – with live music, children’s entertainment and of course coverage of the magnificent fireworks display. A total of 685K live streams were recorded via ABC iview. - On Facebook, overnight the live streams, highlights and NYE 2022 packages amassed a combined total of 683K views on ABC and partner pages. - On YouTube, ABC TV’s live streams, highlights and NYE 2022 packages reached 338K views at the time of reporting. - Audience engagement was strong throughout the night, with over 745K engagements across the live streams, highlights, NYE 2022 packages and event stills. - The total ABC iview live stream results of NYE coverage increased again year-on-year, achieving a record NYE result of 685K.

Podcasts to listen to during your summer holidays (ABC News)

Dreading those long drives to or from your idyllic destination? Here are some podcasts to keep you company on the trip and over the summer.

Recently developed into an ABC TV and [ABC iview series](https://iview.abc.net.au/show/stuff-the-british-stole). [Each episode](https://ab.co/STBS) of this award-winning podcast picks one artefact and takes you on the wild, sometimes funny and often tragic adventure of how it got to where it is today. [A joke a day](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-netflix-is-a-daily-joke-57934532/) featuring a range of comedians. [fast fashion](https://ab.co/Threads) industry. A [Overwhelmed & Living](https://ab.co/JudithLucy). [this podcast](https://jayshetty.me/podcast/). [via subscription](https://www.theaustralian.com.au/podcasts/the-teachers-pet-podcast/news-story/84a5923fee8e9013b9b0f05197cf9416). [biography podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making/id1171160683) about how icons were made. [Sentimental Garbage](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sentimental-garbage/id1444729607) is a podcast about the culture you might feel guilty about loving. [ABC listen](https://www.abc.net.au/radio/listen/). [Mawunyo Gbogbo](https://www.abc.net.au/news/mawunyo-gbogbo/9312686)

How the Broadway Hotel helped strengthen heritage law in ... (ABC News)

Two fires and more than a decade of dry taps at the hotel raised strong debate in Brisbane, and it's became a catalyst for the state to review 30-year-old ...

Currently the state can only issue a notice to carry out minor work. The order would mean the approval of a development application would be paused until the heritage application has been determined and in some states a development that has already been approved must be reassessed if a place is heritage listed. The Heritage Protection Act was introduced in Queensland in 1992 and came after a period of historic buildings being lost during the era of premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. But long term the flames have given the hotel new life and caused it to become a catalyst for the Queensland government to review 30-year-old heritage protection laws. After the blaze the late-Victorian style hotel was facing an uncertain future after it was the subject of numerous orders from the state government and Brisbane City Council to prevent its demolition. It weathered fires in 2010 and 2018 — the first caused it to become vacant and the

Live Review: New Years Eve - ABC TV (theMusic)

A joyous celebration of music that highlighted everything that's wrong with Australian music culture in 2022.

Casey Donovan is the undisputed Queen of New Year's Eve and this year was no exception. Frankly, every single artist on tonight's stage deserves the limelight they had and proved once and for all why they all deserve mainstream success. The band followed the song up with a huge medley of 90s dance hits. Ball Park Music smashed it out of the park with their set consisting of Tripping the Light Fantastic from 2014 and Stars In My Eyes from their latest album. Tasman Keith brought it (with a pretty damn nice suit just quietly) with Love Too Soon from one of the year's standout albums A Colour Undone. Without doubt the organisers put together a great range of Australia's finest.

ABC slammed for 'woke' coverage of Sydney's 9pm New Year's Eve ... (Daily Mail)

The show included singer Casey Donovan covering 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready) by Lizzo and a a segment on Indigenous artists Carmen Glynn-Braun and Dennis Golding, ...

You wouldn't know it watching on NYE', another wrote. Pictured: Host Charlie Pickering with singer Casey Donovan and comedian Rhys Nicholson The ABC's live New Year's Eve coverage has been slammed by viewers who branded the show 'woke' and 'a disgrace'.

Hobart braces for hail, severe storms as Taste of Summer wraps up (ABC News)

Hobart's Taste of Summer festival will delay its opening time to avoid forecasted severe thunderstorms with the potential for large hail and flash flooding ...

"The advice that we got is that there is a weather event coming through Hobart … "The conditions are such that it's quite abnormal for Tasmania. Tomorrow is expected to see a cool change with a top of 16 degrees Celsius and a minimum of 13C, before temperatures again pick up again into the 20s later in the week. "The event organisers will obviously consider the weather situation and make a decision at the time," he said. "We sent an email out and an SMS to all of our ticket holders for today and we've also used social media and other forms of media to get the message out. Hobart is bracing for severe thunderstorms with the potential for large hail and flash flooding this afternoon, with the Taste of Summer festival delaying its opening times to avoid the brunt of the storm.

Owners of troubled Bellamack homes yet to be compensated under ... (ABC News)

Key points: A group of homes built as part of a government-backed affordable housing scheme ended up being riddled with problems; Some of the houses were ...

In a statement to the ABC, Mr Milatos himself called the saga "a nightmare of extreme proportions" and said he was pushing for an inquiry into the events. Sitting beneath the covered area of one of their homes one afternoon, Michelle and Ben said they continued to hold grave concerns for their safety as their bid for compensation carried on through another cyclone season. According to the ruling, Mr Milatos had argued he was not responsible for the issues, claiming he was working to permits and approved drawings, that the issues related to the design and not the construction of the homes and that the work was certified. "A house that's going to last the life of a loan," one resident replied. The commissioner rejected many of these positions — noting some, such as the occupancy certificates, raised "important issues" for the government about how "such a series of events was able to take place" — and accepted the recommendation to demolish without delay. Under the scheme, homeowners can apply to a bureaucrat called the Commissioner of Residential Building Disputes for a decision about whether certain consumer guarantees for residential building work were breached. "The only feasible risk-management strategy, if it is desired to achieve such, is to mitigate the risk by moving occupants out of the houses with the threat of a cyclone and planning to eliminate the risk by demolishing the houses without undue delay," the report's authors said. "It was quite a shock," Ben said of the report's findings. Based on site inspections of the five homes — and concluding they were likely "similarly structurally non-compliant" as others that were assessed in detail — the report warned the houses presented a risk of serious harm to occupants and their neighbours because of potential structural failure in a thunderstorm downburst, cyclone or tornado. But instead of providing safety and shelter, the houses went on to star in a notorious saga that has become a headache for the government and a nightmare for residents for almost a decade since. "It seems concerning how that could continue to be the case when one is faced with the contents of the expert reports," the Commissioner of Residential Building Disputes wrote, in documents obtained by the ABC. Issues experienced by the residents in the homes — including cracked and lifting tiles, extensive corrosion and water ingress when it rains — deteriorated to the point that the government bulldozed and replaced some of the dwellings in 2021.

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