ABC vs The Australian Part 2 (gotcha!!!)

Yesterday The Australian clearly believed that it had caught the ABC in the act. Following Liberal MP Tony Smith attacking Labor, and a byte with Michael Costa arguing "the folly of climate change zealots". (that's balance in The Australian, he is Labor after all). Cut & Paste featured an interview on Fran Kelly's show with some "Indigenous leaders":

'Tjakamarra: Mate, I agree with John Howard's message, you know. That's good. I'm happy to see the army. Army people to come and talk to us.'

'Kelly: The men who are hurting the children and hurting the girls, will they be scared of the police?'

'Tjakamarra: They will. That's good ... It's right for the Government to step in and help the kids for, like, you know, child abuse and kids not going to school ... If they wanted to help Aboriginal people with substance abuse, they're welcome, you know. We'll help them, as the leaders from the community.'

Then they showed what they must have believed was our lefty aunty at her lefty best on AM 20 minutes after the interview:

'From the introduction to yesterday's ABC radio AM program 20 minutes later: PRESENTER Peter Cave: There's growing resistance in indigenous communities to the federal Government's interventionist emergency plan in the Northern Territory.'

Wow! Apparently The Australian has trouble with the idea that a handful of Aborigines in an ABC studio can support an idea, while resistance against it simultaneously grows in the wider community.

It's a tough stretch of the imagination I know.