Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Battered by 9 years of Coalition government, the ABC now has a hard road of repair ahead

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par Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne

The Liberal-National Coalition government has been defeated, but the legacy of its nine-year onslaught on the ABC remains.

That onslaught consisted of relentless accusations of left-wing bias, a succession of pointless and enervating inquiries, punitive funding cuts, and the use of the ABC for target practice in the Coalition’s interminable climate and culture wars.

The government also joined with News Corporation in a pincer attack on the ABC. But worst of all, it stacked the board.

The Turnbull and Morrison governments routinely appointed to the board people…

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