A balanced and sensible article, on which the author, Jonathon Ariel, is to be commended.
The usual leftist nonsense, on this thread, that the contemptible distorted view of the left is somehow normal, and the sensible balanced views are right wing.
The ABC is not pro-Australian. It is pro-Left, and therefore anti-Australian.
The clown charged with managing the ABC circus, Mark Scott, made a pathetic attempt to justify the granting of audience to the fake anti-jihadist by dressing up the biased anti-Australian ABC policy as being pro- freedom of speech.
The next intolerable grub to be given a platform might be a paedophile, entitled, under ABC policy, to his views, and entitled to freedom of expression.
Scott has given ample grounds for his termination. He refuses to do his job.

Leo Lane, have you considered a career in comedy?

You're a natural.

Brilliant critique, Craig. You must have pushed yourself to the limit, to think that up.
You are not quite ready to go public, but give it a few decades, and you never know, you may develop your thought process to the point where you are able to come up with a presentable comment.
In the meantime, apply to join the ABC audience, as you seem to qualify, for that group.

I can only work with the material available, Leo.

The particular specimen provided was especially threadbare.

Here's a good quote if you need a laugh:

"The ABC is not left or right - it's very central, and those who guide its creative output often come from other politically rigid media operations where their freedom to report fully was limited; they appreciate the need for impartial and unbiased reportage."

The problem is ,simply , the Greens and Lefties in the ABC cannot help themselves.

For some reason they think that it is their ABC.... not Our ABC.

The ABC should be stripped of ABC24 as well as all of its so called 'Current Affairs' style programs.

Take the ABC back to Music, Sport ,Childrens, Entertainment & Rural .. all its' former Core Products