Peter Lindsay (Herbert, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I apologise, Kate. Don’t shake your head, because this is true. I can show you the tapes. What they did was to dump the first bit and play the second bit and make it look like I was pushing Peter Costello to be the leader straightaway. That is devious and disgusting. It is not reporting the facts. If the ABC think they have got me as a friend when they do that to me—I am standing here supporting the bill tonight—I will support the ABC board making strong decisions to ensure that the news is reported as the news and as the facts, not as some cleverly edited piece which makes it looks like I said something that I did not say.

I am very pleased to support the bill tonight. I want to see the ABC remain a strong, independent organisation. The government wants to see the ABC remain a strong organisation, and it is only through a board that has integrity, a board that practises the functions of good governance and a board that has no conflict of interest that we will be able to achieve that. I support this bill.

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