Surely the federal government would have learned by now to avoid a knee jerk reaction the ABC hopes for whenever they broadcast one of their highly selective one-sided programmes.
Malcolm Turnbull, a former minister for communications, would be well aware that a collective exists within the ABC whose mission is not so much to report the news, but to make the news.
Nevertheless, the moment Turnbull saw the ABC’s 25 July 2016 programme on juvenile detention in the Northern Territory, ”Australia’s Shame”, he decided on that most simplistic solution to those situations where a government hasn’t the foggiest idea what to do, a...
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