Justin Trevor Milne (born 19 November 1952) is an Australian business executive and

company director A board of directors is a governing body that supervises the activities of a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government agency. The powers, duties, and responsibilities of a board of directors are determined by government regulations ...

known for his roles as Chairman of the

Australian Broadcasting Corporation The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australia’s principal public service broadcaster. It is funded primarily by grants from the federal government and is administered by a government-appointed board of directors. The ABC is ...

, chief of broadband services at

Telstra Telstra Group Limited is an Australian telecommunications company that builds and operates telecommunications networks and markets related products and services. It is a member of the S&P/ASX 20 stock index, and is Australia's largest telecomm ...

, and CEO at OzEmail, as well as serving on the boards of Tabcorp, the National Basketball League, NetComm Wireless, ME Bank and MYOB Group. and NBN Co Milne was born in

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, South Australia and was educated at St Peter's College before gaining a Bachelor of Arts from

Flinders University Flinders University, established as The Flinders University of South Australia is a public university, public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia, with a footprint extending across a number of locations in South Australia and ...

. After university, he worked in the film industry, joining the South Australian Film Corporation where he produced several short documentary films and worked as an assistant editor on films including

Peter Weir Peter Lindsay Weir ( ; born 21 August 1944) is a retired Australian film director. He is known for directing films crossing various genres over forty years with films such as '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'' (1975), '' Gallipoli'' (1981), '' The Y ...

's '' The Last Wave''. In the 1980s, Milne bought a film company in Sydney and moved there, where he became involved in the technology sector, and co-founding a car sales listing platform, Globe Media. He then moved on as a director at MSN, then later OzEmail, and then to

. Milne was appointed as Chairman of the ABC in 2017. After the sacking of ABC Managing Director Michelle Guthrie in September 2018, it was alleged that Milne had asked for journalist

Emma Alberici Emma Alberici (born 3 February 1970) is an Australian journalist and former foreign correspondent who was the chief economics correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television network. Alberici was until 2017 the presen ...

to be sacked, leading to protests from ABC staff and calls for an inquiry. Further allegations have surfaced about Milne asking for Andrew Probyn's sacking in relation to Probyn's reporting of the Super Saturday by-elections. Milne has also resigned and has denied sending emails regarding Alberici or Probyn. Milne simultaneously held positions with ABC, NBN Co and NetComm Wireless (a supplier to NBN Co) leading to comment of conflict of interest and workload.

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Living people Flinders University alumni Fellows of the Australian Institute of Company Directors 20th-century Australian businesspeople 21st-century Australian businesspeople 1952 births {{Australia-business-bio-stub