Amanda Meade

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Amanda Meade

Chris Uhlmann, who is not exactly a fan of Australia’s shift to renewables, made sure he was front and centre at Sky News Australia’s energy ministers debate. The columnist for the Australian and a Sky News political contributor – who was once the political editor at ABC and Nine – adopted an aggressive tone as he grilled Chris Bowen about Labor’s $275 power bill promise.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Amanda Meade

The former Spotlight producer Taylor Auerbach suffered substantial distress, embarrassment and hurt after Seven breached a non-disparagement clause, he has claimed in a lawsuit filed against the media company in the federal court. Auerbach worked at the network for nearly five years, during which he was instrumental in securing an interview with former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann, including purchasing a $1,000 in services from a Thai masseuse for Lehrmann on the Seven credit card.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Amanda Meade

Justice Michael Lee relied on an “arguably archaic” definition of consent when he found Bruce Lehrmann was “reckless in his indifference” to Brittany Higgins’ consent, Lisa Wilkinson has argued in fresh submissions in the Lehrmann defamation appeal. Lehrmann, a former Liberal staffer, has appealed Lee’s April 2024 judgement that he was not defamed on four grounds by Network Ten and Wilkinson when they broadcast an interview with Higgins in 2021.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Amanda Meade

It’s only week one of the election campaign but Peter Dutton has made it abundantly clear how he feels about the ABC’s funding and its journalists. Pressed repeatedly by 2GB broadcaster Ben Fordham to name his favourite ABC journalist, Dutton came up with no one. “My favourite ABC journalist, I might have to go back a fair way, Ben, to identify that,” he told the Nine-owned Sydney radio station.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Amanda Meade |Josh Butler

Peter Dutton has not ruled out cuts to the ABC and is still refusing to say which public servants will be axed as part of his plan to slash 41,000 jobs, despite repeating concern about Australians struggling to pay bills. Dutton swerved questions on Wednesday about where and how he would trim what he dubbed “waste” in the federal government, but he committed to releasing costings on his public service cuts before the election on 3 May.