At Senate Estimates today, the Nationals Senate Team held our national media institutions to account. For too long our media watchdog, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), has been asleep on the couch letting the ABC report bias programming for its city viewers. Standing up for regional Australia, the Leader of the Nationals in…
Screen Australia has been caught out by Nationals Senate Leader and Senator for Victoria Bridget McKenzie for funding $625,000 of taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars to bring down the Australian beef industry. Fight for Planet A: Our Climate Challenge is listed as a documentary on both Screen Australia and the ABC’s websites even though it is factually…
The ABC has been put on notice for broadcasting the factually incorrect program, Fight for Planet A which misrepresents aspects of Australian agriculture, in particular the beef industry, for its contribution to carbon emissions. Nationals Senate Leader and Senator for Victoria Bridget McKenzie immediately highlighted the fact that the beef industry is one of only two…