'The ABC is letting Australia down': Paul Keating slams the national broadcaster

By Tony Wright
Updated November 26 2016 - 3:08am, first published November 25 2016 - 7:38pm
"In the case of the ABC news, if you want to watch a good news service, watch SBS news": Former prime minister Paul Keating. Photo: Eddie Jim
"In the case of the ABC news, if you want to watch a good news service, watch SBS news": Former prime minister Paul Keating. Photo: Eddie Jim
Mr Keating accused the ABC's 7.30 program of being 'a news magazine, instead of a hard new breaking operation'. Photo: ABC's 7.30
Mr Keating accused the ABC's 7.30 program of being 'a news magazine, instead of a hard new breaking operation'. Photo: ABC's 7.30
Mr Keating was in Melbourne on a promotional tour for the biography 'Paul Keating: The Big-Picture Leader. Photo: Eddie Jim
Mr Keating was in Melbourne on a promotional tour for the biography 'Paul Keating: The Big-Picture Leader. Photo: Eddie Jim

Former prime minister Paul Keating is the latest public figure to lay into the besieged ABC, saying it is failing as a news gathering organisation and was letting Australia down.

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