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ABC chair Ita Buttrose will not be sacked over response to Federal Government’s Four Corners questions, Paul Fletcher says
Communications Minister Paul Fletcher has rejected suggestions he plans to sack ABC chair Ita Buttrose if he is unhappy with her response over a Four Corners investigation.
Key points:
- The Communications Minister sent 15 questions to the ABC board about a Four Corners episode
- Among them, he questioned why the personal lives of politicians were judged to be newsworthy
- The ABC is expected to respond to the letter in the coming days
Mr Fletcher wrote to the ABC board on December 1 with more than a dozen questions about the program, Inside the Canberra Bubble, which centred on alleged misconduct by ministers Alan Tudge and Christian Porter.
He told ABC Insiders he was expecting a “serious and substantive” response from the public broadcaster but…
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