Wilson Tuckey (O'Connor, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Under standing order 102, I refer to your comments today regarding the full broadcast of question time on recording days by the taxpayer funded national broadcaster, the ABC. Are you aware that the station selected by the ABC to broadcast proceedings of this place is ABC NewsRadio, which provides approximately half of its daily program content from the British, American, German and Dutch public radio system and would therefore appear to have ample time to provide the Australian people with full coverage of the recording of question time, not a censored version? Today’s issue also raises the question as to why in fact ABC NewsRadio does not play a full recording of the proceedings of the non-direct broadcast chamber and the Main Committee upon the completion of proceedings of the relevant direct broadcast chamber, instead of overseas based broadcasts? As the Presiding Officer in this House, would you please consider this issue in the interest of publicising all proceedings of this place in full.

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