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Leonie Kramer

Leonie Kramer (1924–2016) was a Chair of the ABC and Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney.

Leonie Kramer reviews 'This Is the ABC: The Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1932–1983' by Ken S. Inglis

November 1983, no. 56 20 December 2019
The title of Ken Inglis’s book is a poignant irony, reflecting the transience of history itself. For its publication coincided exactly with the death of the Commission, and the birth of the Corporation, and with hindsight one can say that it should have been called That was the ABC, thus creating a pleasant symmetry with That Was the Week That Was. But Inglis did his best to defeat time by bring ... (read more)