A Labor MP who stirred controversy by using a taxpayer-funded allowance to pay for attacks against an ABC journalist says he won’t be running any further ads after a slapdown from Bill Shorten and an internal backlash.
Michael Danby is refusing to apologise for the two ads – placed in the Australian Jewish News – that criticised ABC Middle East correspondent Sophie McNeill, accusing her of displaying an anti-Israel bias in her reports.
Read the full article by Adam Gartell at the Sydney Morning Herald.