If the Senate (house of review) wants to inquire into the ABC (a statutory entity of the Crown) then that is our system working. It is entirely irrelevant that the ABC may be doing its own review. The Senate routinely investigates matters a Dept may also be examining internally.
If there were questions of propriety or governance in any Federal dept, say Defence or Foreign Affairs, no one would, seriously, say the Senate should not also investigate the matter, in addition to whatever the department is doing.
The Senate's constitutional role, inter alia, is to review the Executive Govt's activities. The best course for the ABC here - esp post the Milligan-related payments - is for the ABC to resist the temptation, which all Govt entities are prone to, to mark its own homework.
I say this as someone who was, inter alia, attacked by Hendo for going on the ABC
https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1315811985787813888
Should anyone doubt my enduring regard for the ABC, apart from occasionally going on the ABC, then after Hendo "went" me, I then "went" Hendo
https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1103900910013505537
To finish this thread off, I think Hendo and I are now in a better place, a place of peaceful coexistence - the alternative is too awful to contemplate .... as Khruschev said to Mao of nuclear war, "The survivors would envy the dead", etc
https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1360371016967495682
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