AACTA winner calls on “more famous” nominees to back his pledge to save the ABC

Partos

Nominees in the running to receive an Australian Academy of Cinema Television Arts awards on television tomorrow night have been asked to use their appearance to back a call to save the ABC.

Composer Anthony Partos, who took the AACTA award for best original music score in television for his work on the second series of ABC1’s Redfern Now, used his speech to call on the industry to protect their resources.

“I was alarmed to learn that the Victorian branch of the Liberal Party has advocated selling off the ABC entirely and the Murdoch press is actively doing everything in its capacity to undermine our national broadcaster,” he said.