“Contact over a story pre-publishing that sits outside the person of interest I think is problematic. “I’m not aware of any untoward pressure on the ABC specifically not to publish but any contact I think becomes difficult.”
He said he was emailed directly, and also copied in on emails from ministerial officers, and had received phone calls from one office.
Mr Anderson also revealed he had received a phone call from ABC chair Ita Buttrose to tell him that a board member had also been contacted by a federal staffer about the program. He said Ms Buttrose had seen the program and supported the…
