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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has today welcomed the resignation of the ABC board chairman Justin Milne, and has finally commented on who should replace the recently sacked director, Michelle Guthries.
“I think it’s fair to say that the ABC is at-risk of becoming an inner-city leftie echo chamber”
Morrison says that by hiring an ex-Murdoch executive as the ABC’s managing director wasn’t enough. Especially when she failed to sack journalists who were holding him accountable for his trickle-down-economics model.
“We need to penetrate the walls of hypercritical, progressive reporting by installing a former Liberal state Premier with close ties to the banking sector” said the Prime Minister.
“It’s deadset the only way we can fix the ABC. It’s either that or one of Rupert Murdoch’s socially challenged nephews I see at Cronulla Northies every now and then”
Baird, who is currently a high-ranking executive for NAB after using the NSW state government as a stepping stone in his career in finance, has said he is interested in the challenge of restructuring the ABC to focus on property speculation and the need for lock-out laws.
“Put it this way. I won’t be sending the four corners team anywhere near the greyhound track [haha]” said Baird.
This comes as embattled chairman Justin Milne has quit after days of chaos and deeply damaging revelations about his conduct.
Justin Milne was not present at an emergency ABC board meeting this morning, which resulted in a request for him to step aside, after a union protest in the lobby of the Ultimo kremlin yesterday afternoon.
The board will meet again at noon to decide on an acting chairman, but Liberal party insiders suggest that Scott Morrison has also made a nomination for that job as well.
“I think John Howard has the time to sit on a few more boards. Let me text him”
