CANBERRA — Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has taken aim at the ABC, attacking the Q&A program as a “waste of taxpayers money” and seemingly claiming victory in the wake of the broadcaster’s axing of Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied, saying “one down, many to go”.
The Minister has previously accused the ABC — and Fairfax — of conducting a “jihad” to bring down the Coalition Government, but he has doubled down on Thursday in the wake of a Q&A which allegedly downplayed the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalism and inspired an article which has been roundly condemned for suggesting the ABC should have been bombed instead of Manchester.
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