Jo Dyer says Kate entrusted a tight circle of friends with a trauma she said had haunted her for decades and they won’t rest until it is investigated.
Today on Please Explain federal political reporter Lisa Visentin joins Nathanael Cooper after ABC managing director David Anderson’s appearance at Senate estimates on Monday.
ABC managing director David Anderson told a Senate estimates hearing the broadcaster agreed to pay $100,000 in mediation costs to Industry Minister Christian Porter’s lawyer.
Managing director David Anderson also told a Senate estimates hearing the ABC agreed to pay $100,000 in mediation costs to Industry Minister Christian Porter’s lawyer as part of the settlement of his defamation case and spent a further $680,000 defending the matter.
Tensions between the ABC and the government have once again boiled over,despite Scott Morrison’s intentions to steer well clear of the ABC controversies his predecessors delighted in stoking.
Voters fall into three categories in Pearce:lifelong Liberals who won’t stray from their party;those whose opinion of Porter has changed forever;and those who just haven’t been paying attention.
“Would I prefer a world in which these allegations were never made? Yes. But that’s not my choice,” the ABC board director said.
While things have gone quiet on the legal front,there have been happier developments in Christian Porter’s life. The minister has quietly started dating Sydney-based criminal lawyer Karen Espiner.
Labor and Greens senators will try to force ABC managing director David Anderson return to Canberra to face questions over the Christian Porter defamation settlement.
Queensland Nationals MP George Christensen called on the government to take action against the ABC,saying it should start with its chairwoman,Ita Buttrose.
Jo Dyer,who succeeded in ousting Mr Porter’s barrister from his defamation case against the ABC,is contemplating her own defamation case against him.