ELLEN FANNING'S DISGRACEFUL INTERVIEW WITH THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE ACTU MICHELE O'NEIL

I have seen and heard some interviews on the 7.30 pm ABC programme for many years, and one of the most disgraceful ever was the short - and extremely rude - interview of the new ACTU president Michele O'Neil on the 19 JULY 2018 programme.

It was so repulsive that I am wondering if I will ever be able to watch the programme again, no matter who is presenting it.

Where did Ellen Fanning learn her politics, her interview technique, her arrogance, and her intolerance and complete lack of understanding? Watch Fanning's "body language" during the whole of her brief interview - if you can bear it!

For those of us fighting for increased funding for the ABC and a removal of goverenment control over the so-called "independent" ABC, we have a long way to go to achieve anything with this sort of approach.

Does Fanning believe that her rudeness to the head of an organisation such as the large ACTU organisation won't go unnoticed by those many thousands of union members? Does Fanning think that she can take as her example a few of the CFMEU's members who are not role models and discount thousands of others?

Just because she is anti-union does not give her the right, on the national public broadcaster, to behave as if she is the controller of right-wing union organisations and assume that no one else has any rights.

It was such a disgusting display, so abruptly concluded, that is incumbent on the ABC to ensure that it never happens again.

I am not holding my breath for Michelle Guthrie to take action.