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ABC Staff Memorial Print Page 
The ABC Staff Memorial pays tribute to ABC employees who lost their lives in the line of duty. The memorial consists of a two layer perspex with panel a TV screen display adjacent to the wall mounted plaque.
The ABC Board commissioned this Memorial in August 2012 on the first anniversary of the Lake Eyre helicopter crash in which John Bean, Paul Lockyer and Gary Ticehurst lost their lives. The ABC has also created a memorial online with biographies of the deceased to complement the memorial unveiled in the ABC studios in each capital cities.
16 of the ABC's finest journalists, (15 men and one woman) broadcasters, foreign correspondents, pilots and cameramen have lost their lives in conflicts in Borneo, Africa, East Timor and Iraq and more recently at home at the hands of tragic aircraft accidents, all in a vast range of destinations where the ABC's work takes place. They were in their twenties, their thirties, their forties, fifties and sixties. They were cameramen, broadcasters, a rural reporter, station manager, a TV director. Pilots, journalists and war correspondents .
Those listed on the Online Memorial are: -
John Bean Paul Lockyer
Gary Ticehurst Paul Moran
Brett Joyce Paul Davis
Ralph Elphinstone Joe Mooney
Bill Fryer Bruce Anning
Tony Joyce Roger East
Patricia Ludford Frank Parnell
Chester Wilmot John Elliott
Location
| Address: | 700 Harris Street, ABC Ultimo Centre, Ultimo, 2007 |
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| State: | NSW |
| Area: | AUS |
| GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -33.88242 Long: 151.201456 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
| Monument Type: | Monument |
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| Monument Theme: | Disaster |
| Sub-Theme: | Industrial |
| Link: | http://www.abc.net.au/corp/memorial… |
Dedication
| Actual Monument Dedication Date: | Thursday 15th August, 2013 |
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THIS MEMORIAL
PAYS TRIBUTE TO
ABC STAFF WHO
HAVE LOST THEIR
LIVES IN THE
LINE OF DUTY
(Plaque)
ABC Staff Memorial
"... for all the great work that lives on
A great life dies, and leaves an empty tent -
An aching void to measure time by
As overwhelming as a silent sky
SILENT SKY BY CLIVE JAMES
THIS MEMORIAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO
ABC STAFF WHO HAVE LOST THIER (sic)
LIVES IN THE LINE OF DUTY
In honouring the colleagues listed below we
recognise that the work of public broadcasting
must sometimes be carried out amid conflict or in
hazardous situations, in service to the ABC and the
Australian people .
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