Nick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I like the ABC. I am a regular viewer of it. I appreciate and value the national broadcaster. I acknowledge the comments—I think it was last night—of Justin Milne regarding unnecessary criticism of the ABC, and I understand the need for a diversity of opinion and the need to hear minority views and have proper debates on our national broadcaster. But I don't think that should include the broadcasting of neo-Nazis and people who are adherents to national socialism.

I spoke out the other night about Triple J's interview with one Mr Eli Mosley, who is an American neo-Nazi, and I was shocked on Tuesday night to turn on 7.30 and find yet another interview on our national broadcaster. This time it was with a Mr Matthew Heimbach, who is, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, quite the extremist and has views that would be completely unacceptable to this country, to the United Kingdom, to the US and to all of those who fought under the flag of the United Nations.

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