Ex-TV reporter Ben McCormack will remain behind bars after being accused of dozens of transmitting child sexual abuse material offences.

The former A Current Affair journalist appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Friday via videolink sporting a beard and wearing a green jail uniform T-shirt in custody.

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The 51-year-old was arrested in early August, charged with 65 counts of transmitting audio files that allegedly constituted child sexual abuse material over several months last year at Oxley in Brisbane’s southwest.

McCormack resigned from his role on the Nine Network’s A Current Affair program in 2017.

A law clerk from the firm representing McCormack told magistrate Clare Kelly it was the first committal mention for th

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