ABC News Director Justin Stevens has admitted Laura Tingle’s remarks at the Sydney Writer’s Festival lacked “context, balance and supporting information”, after National’s leader David Little proud criticised her “frontal attack” as undermining “the very heart of what the ABC should be”.
Ms Tingle, the chief political correspondent of ABC 's 7.30 current affairs program, labelled Opposition Leader Peter Dutton "dangerous" and called Australia a racist country during a panel discussion at the Sydney Writers' Festival on Sunday.
In statement issued to ABC’s website on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Stevens said his employee’s controversial remarks “lacked the context, balance and supporting information of her work for the ABC” and they would “not have met the ABC's editorial standards”. "I think what was concerning is for a political leader to come out and say not only is housing the fault of migrants, but you can't get a childcare space, you can't get through the traffic on the roads, you can't get in to see the doctor because of migration - that is lighting this thing up in a really disturbing way," she said.
Mr Stevens statement came after Mr Littleproud told Sky News on Wednesday afternoon Ms Tingle’s remarks opposed “the very heart of what the ABC should be.” “If a board member of the ABC stood up and made those statements…then there would be serious questions about any other board member. Now it's up to the ABC, but I think the ABC's losing anyway, you only need to look at their ratings.”
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