Andrew Wilkie (Denison, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Are you aware the award-winning SBS program Dateline is to be cut to half an hour and that 17 of the 24 staff have been sacked? Is this a 70 per cent efficiency dividend or, more truthfully, part of the ABC and SBS budget cuts? If SBS management has effectively axed Dateline for some other reason, do you agree this is an incompetent decision and must be reversed?

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