ABC managing director personally apologises to Christian Porter over Milligan
Thursday, 03 June 2021
(ABC MD David Anderson) told Mr Porter that he had done his “best to manage” his staff.
From The Australian.
ABC managing director David Anderson offered a face-to-face apology to Christian Porter for a series of social media posts by two of his senior journalists in the aftermath of the defamation matter involving the public broadcaster and the former attorney-general.
Formal mediation between Mr Porter and the ABC had only just concluded on Monday when Mr Anderson approached the Industry Minister to express his disappointment that the tweets by Four Corners reporter Louise Milligan and the show’s executive producer, Sally Neighbour, had tarnished what was achieved at the legal discussions earlier in the day, and had undone the goodwill between them.
Mr Anderson – who on Tuesday learned he would be recalled to front a Senate committee on Monday, at which he will be grilled about the legal costs incurred by the ABC over the course of the defamation matter – is understood to have told Mr Porter that he had done his “best to manage” his staff.