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Sir Robert Menzies on whether we should sell the ABC

David Llewellyn-Smith
Monday, 18 June 2018
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Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has warned that the Liberal Party would be “emboldened” by an election victory to sell the ABC, seizing on a Liberal policy vote on the weekend as a key issue at the federal byelections on July 28.

The move came after cabinet ministers poured cold water on the idea on Sunday, with Finance Minister Mathias Cormann ruling it out and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg declaring it would “never” happen.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.