ABC News | 'You've got to play to the base': Why the ABC is a political football ABC News Bill Shorten rose in Federal Parliament on Thursday afternoon last week to give a rousing defence of the ABC. An hour later, an email arrived in ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie's office from Communications Minister Mitch Fifield. "The Labor ... ABC's problem with political diversity goes a long way back Mitch Fifield, the IPA and the ABC |