Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, upon notice, on 8 April 2011:

Given that:

(a) the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has described an Israeli Defense Forces video on the Gaza war as 'propaganda' (AM, 23 April, 2009); and

(b) the ABC has also insinuated that the pro-Israel activist Michelle Rojas-Tal and the pro-Israel advocacy group StandWithUs are propagandists (News, 25 August 2010):

(1) Can an explanation be provided by the ABC justifying its use of the term 'propaganda' in these instances.

(2) Can details be provided of any instances where the ABC has: (a) described any anti-Israel material promoted by Israel's critics as 'propaganda'; and (b) insinuated that an anti-Israel activist or an anti-Israel advocacy group are propagandists.