Friends of the ABC spokesman Professor Alan Knight writes:
John Howard's legacy will include an Australian Broadcasting Corporation Board packed with rightwing radicals, linked to industry funded think tanks hostile to public enterprise.
Howard's nepotism has encouraged a flowering of a web of influence. loaded information, and jobbery seeking to eliminate perceived leftist influences in the arts, the universities and most of all, the ABC.
His flagrant abuse of power to appoint his political allies to government posts, directly threatens the independence of the national broadcaster as never before.
If a new government is to be elected, it should examine whether its possible to spill the Board, so that a fair and open appointment process might be implemented in the public interest.
Hand's off the ABC, Howard!
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