Coonan achieves what the Victorian Right could not

As usual, the hard righties of the north show the southerners how it is done. Michael Kroger, ex member of the ABC board and sometime lofty chieftan of the anaemic Victorian blue-bloods, famously failed to correct the devious and covert bias of the "for all of us" national broadcaster, although he did manage to piss off a lot of lefties, so it wasn't all bad.

Compare with Coonan, however; not only is she in the business of doing business on a Government letterhead (around the time our mate Michael undertook the Herculean task of cleaning the A(ugean)BC stables), but she found time to both not fill two ABC board positions and eliminate the staff position! (Oh yes, and monkey around with the media laws, how could I forget.) Her logic is again of the John Howard school of the impeccable and infallible:

As the staff-elected director has been elected by staff rather than appointed, there have been claims that the position creates uncertainty about accountability.

If I were running a university philosophy department I would be madly sacking staff so I could afford to bestow honorary doctorates on both the PM and Ms Communications for such beautiful and original contributions to that staid old discipline.