Morrison orders urgent inquiry into Malcolm Media

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It think ScoMo may well have attended the John Howard school of hogging the limelight, via The Australian:

The Morrison government has asked the communications department to launch an urgent investigation into the conduct of ABC chairman Justin Milne, following revelations he told former managing director Michelle Guthrie to “get rid of” journalist Emma Alberici.

Labor and the Greens will also push to set up a Senate inquiry into the machinations at the very top of the public broadcaster and alleged “political interference”.

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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.