The Opposition Leader and an ABC journalist had a heated exchange outside the Parliament House studios. The leader accused the journalist of being biased, leading to a robust conversation that ended in a stalemate. Viewers had mixed reactions to the incident.
Program, Ferguson pursued the Opposition Leader into the corridor outside the ABC’s Parliament House studios to take issue with his comments., had pushed back at Ferguson during the interview over both the premise and tone of her questions by effectively accusing her of being a Labor stooge.
“You’re too blind to see it, it’s entrenched throughout the whole organisation,” Dutton was overheard saying in the corridor, as the pair engaged in robust conversation which, after five or so minutes, appeared to end in an amicable stalemate. The reaction among viewers was mixed, ranging from a belief Dutton was playing to his conservative base which gave up on the ABC long ago, to claims he had a glass jaw.“Sure, it helps with the base, but that’s not the motive,” said a confidant.As Dutton himself pointed out on ABC radio in Melbourne on Friday morning, Paul Keating and Bob Hawke used to hit out from time to time so why the big deal now?Nonetheless, not all the colleagues, despite agreeing with the leader’s assessment of the national broadcaster, were comfortabl
Opposition Leader ABC Journalist Heated Exchange Parliament House Biased Robust Conversation Stalemate Viewers Mixed Reactions
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