Four Corners last night. The ABC seems to have dropped its bias. Certainly, no favours were done for Bill Shorten or the unions. One of Shorten's cronies could have had a part in the Sopranos, and Bill himself came over as a very naughty boy.

How else do you get a good union man, certainly not by talking sweet talk to employers.
You say it as it is, that is what Abbott can't handle. If you do not like the truth don't cause the situations where you get critisised for it.
How do you like Turnbulls 15 Billion $ NBN blowout, discretely exposed.

Video has emerged of royal commissioner Dyson Heydon slamming Kevin Rudd's government as "non-substantive" at a free-market think-tank event.

Labor, which believes the retired High Court justice was appointed to head the royal commission into trade unions because of his political stripes, is pressuring Mr Heydon to step aside after Fairfax Media revealed he agreed to address a Liberal party fundraiser.

Mr Heydon said he "overlooked" the Liberal party connections and contends he did not read an attached donation form and flyer provided to him two months before he cancelled his appearance at the Sir Garfield Barwick Address.

In a roundtable hosted by the classically liberal and free-market think-tank the Centre for Independent Studies in June 2013, Mr Heydon took aim at Labor's regulation of the charities sector.

At the time the comments were made Mr Heydon was recently retired from the High Court, former Labor leader Julia Gillard was still prime minister and it was about eight months before Mr Heydon was appointed by the Coalition to head the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and corruption .

"Four Corners last night. The ABC seems to have dropped its bias.",
......but when it's a leader of the coalition properly copping it it's bias, right?

Let it ALL hang out, I say.

Not a good look that Shorten refused to be interviewed by Four Corners. Particularly after his evasiveness before the Royal Commission.

Paul Howes, who replaced Shorten as national secretary of the Australian Workers Union said that Labor should sever its links with the unions for the benefit of both unions and Labor.

Kevin Rudd and other senior figures from the ALP believed the same.

Regrettably the stranglehold of the factions in Labor is such that the rank and file are denied a real say in the ALP.

Bill will save his right of reply until after the Royal Commission has finished.

Talking of not good looks.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott had a private dinner with one of the nation's biggest media moguls, Kerry Stokes, in Broome on Saturday night two months after handing the Seven West chairman a win by putting controversial media reforms on hold.

In June, Mr Abbott put on hold reforms proposed by Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull that would have abolished the so-called "reach rule", which prohibits TV licence holders from broadcasting to more than 75 per cent of the population, and the two-out-of-three rule, which stops a media company from controlling more than two of a radio station, free-to-air TV station and newspaper.

Seven West, in particular, and News Corp opposed change – which has the support of regional TV networks, the Nine Network and Fairfax Media – but the Prime Minister has indicated he is unlikely to move on the laws unless there is consensus in the industry, which is an unlikely prospect.

In June, Mr Abbott put on hold reforms proposed by Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull that would have abolished the so-called "reach rule", which prohibits TV licence holders from broadcasting to more than 75 per cent of the population, and the two-out-of-three rule, which stops a media company from controlling more than two of a radio station, free-to-air TV station and newspaper.

Since the changes were blocked, regional TV networks Prime, WIN, Southern Cross Austereo and Imparja have launched a "save our voices" campaign and warned of local jobs being lost, particularly in regional news, a prospect that has caused growing agitation among Nationals MPs including deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss