Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The answer to the honourable senator's question is as follows:

The AM story of 23 April 2009 referred to a video released to the public by the Israeli Government specifically to put its case on a contentious issue, and ABC News considers that the expressions used in the story were accurate in the context.

ABC News also considers that the news story run on 25 August 2010 was balanced and accurate. At no stage in that story was the StandWithUs group's activities described by the ABC as propaganda. The story provided an opportunity for that group to respond to allegations by its critics that it engaged in propaganda, and the headline of the story made it clear that it was dealing with a question in relation to both sides.