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The ex-chair of the ABC told staff at radio station Triple J that activists who get ahead of public sentiment can be “burnt at the stake”, as they discussed moving their Hottest 100 countdown from Australia Day.
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ABC board directors say they weren’t aware the broadcaster’s ex-managing director Michelle Guthrie was concerned about attempts at political interference until she handed them a dossier of allegations.
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Nick Xenophon says he would like to see former ‘Team’-mate Tim Storer return to the party fold after the High Court today paved the way for Skye Kakoschke-Moore’s former Senate seat to fall to the independent Adelaide businessman.
New Zealand-born Rex Patrick, South Australia’s newest senator, would back a referendum to amend the increasingly-infamous section 44 of the constitution – and feels for his fellow former Kiwi Barnaby Joyce, whom he says is “quintessentially Australian”.
Family First’s Bob Day has won the final seat in the Senate in South Australia, with the Liberals’ Sean Edwards and Labor’s Anne McEwen missing out.
Nick Xenophon is closing in on three quotas in the South Australian senate, as Malcolm Turnbull’s bid to remove an uncooperative upper house crossbench has also landed him with an outspoken former broadcaster and ensured the political resurgence of One Nation.
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