With friends like this….

At the weekend launch of Parliamentary Friends of the ABC, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull enjoyed a happy moment with ABC Chairman Jim Spigelman, Labor MP Melissa Parke and the national broadcaster’s $770,000-a-year “editor in chief” Mark Scott.

Turnbull’s friends will be particularly impressed by his latest utterances. Andrew Bolt, he swears, is precisely the sort of supporter the Coalition does not need.

Unlike, say, Mark Scott, who has had quite a few years to hire a conservative broadcaster but has not quite managed to find one.

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