in a more severe manner than when interviewing the opposition. Tony Abbott rarely appears on the non-partisan ABC preferring the assured safety of appearing on Alan Jones radio program known to be sympathetic to Mr Abbotts political views. A program that treated Julia Gillard so abominably that Jones had to publicly apologise. It would be good to see Tony Abbott agree to being interviewed on ABC, especially solo on Q&A as Gillard did recently. And for those who say he would be treated worse than the PM by ABC journalists, this is probably the very convenient slant Mr Abbott adopts to avoid more thorough and professional scrutiny. I noted that the rusted-on virulently right-wing commenter, Shebs, said he doesnt own a TV or radio. Gosh, where does he get the confirmed knowledge that the ABC is biased? Probably from The Australian newspaper. Ah well, I think we can securely discount Shebs comments about the ABC from now on. Mark James: Dave: Was that after Howard appointed his own people to the Board! This is what the Australian stands for, and a list of questions similar to these could be asked here if the political will existed. Why did you hire Andy Coulson given that you knew phone hacking had happened during his time as editor of the News of the World? Why, despite mounting evidence of the scale of phone hacking at the News of the World reported by the Guardian in July 2009 and New York Times in September