ABC chairman Justin Milne told former managing director Michelle Guthrie to sack high-profile presenter Emma Alberici following a complaint from then-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.
In an extraordinary intervention that underlines the political pressure on Ms Guthrie before she was axed on Monday, Mr Milne appeared to acquiesce to government complaints about “bias” by calling for the chief economics correspondent to be fired because she was damaging the public broadcaster's standing with Coalition MPs.Also, it shows Turnbull in a bad light for having made such a song and dance about the report, too.
So, all we need now is a change of government, a new ABC Chairperson, and a new ABC managing direction.
2 comments:
His position is untenable both from working with staff and also with the government.
He should go now
Yeah, its pretty incredible behaviour for such a position of such an organisation.
Incidentally, Homer, why no comments at all yesterday? :)
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