'The ABC is letting Australia down': Keating
Former prime minister Paul Keating is the latest public figure to lay into the besieged ABC, saying it it is failing as a news gathering organisation and was letting Australia down.
Tony Wright is the National Affairs Editor of The Age. He has been based in the Canberra Press Gallery for 20 years, working for The Canberra Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Bulletin before joining The Age in 2007. He has written two plays and two best-selling books, was named Magazine Feature Writer of the Year twice, has won several UN Media Peace Prizes and has been a Walkley Awards finalist five times.
Former prime minister Paul Keating is the latest public figure to lay into the besieged ABC, saying it it is failing as a news gathering organisation and was letting Australia down.
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Any advice sugar-loving Barnaby Joyce might have on public health should be taken seriously. The man's a living miracle.
"They had taken all my guns, so I couldn't shoot myself, so I poured petrol over myself and walked into a fire".
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From: Office of the Prime Minister
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