Chris Kenny has slammed the ABC for failing to ask controversial ex-Greens senator Lidia Thorpe about any of her 'outbursts and transgressions' during a 14-minute chat on its flagship current affairs show.
The controversial ex-Greens senator was the main guest on ABC’s flagship current affairs program, Insiders, on Sunday morning.
During the exchange, Senator Thorpe can be heard yelling “shame on you” as well as “police are police… they’re the ones killing our people.” Kenny said he would love to have Senator Thorpe on his program to ask her about her bahaviour, yet the latest incident was strangely absent from the ABC’s questioning.
“Well, apparently, even though her vote won't matter in the senate, because Labor and the Greens are united on the Voice, even though she's pretty much irrelevant in the debate on the Voice, the ABC spent most of her 14-minute interview trying to get“Really? This Senator, no longer a Green, who continues to disgrace herself weekly, we are supposed to treat her seriously in the national debate...
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