ABC chair Ita Buttrose says the national broadcaster ‘is not the enemy’ of the federal governmentGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingScott Morrison has backed a
Senate inquiry into the public broadcasters’ handling of complaints, after extraordinary pushback from the ABC chair, Ita Buttrose, that it amounted to “political interference”.
Morrison said the ABC was a government agency and “nobody was above the scrutiny of the Senate”, rejecting suggestions the ABC had been singled out for special treatment.