The type of relationship between the ABC board and the government has the potential to have a serious impact on us all. The disaster we are now seeing unfold may have its origins in defiant political ideology within the national broadcaster. If this is all about a war declared on the elected representatives of mainstream Australia by a media entity unhappy with the election outcome, then I shudder to think what additional damage could be done.
If any good can come out of recent events it will be this: the new government loses any naivety it may have held about who its friends are…
Labor has long stacked our institutions with its friends. Conservatives hate having nights of the long knives and are terrified of being seen as nepotistic. Yet as inconvenient as it may be, the new administration must, to govern properly and carry out the agenda it was elected to implement, neutralise the enemies in its midst and place people it trusts into key positions of influence.
