ABC proud of team
It is disappointing that The Border Mail has relied entirely on former – and anonymous – ABC Goulburn Murray staff to inform Sophie Boyd’s story (‘Bullying rife in ABC, claims ex-workers’, December 19).
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Interestingly, she also fails to inform your readers of how long ago her sources worked there.
While the ABC does not comment on personal employee-related issues, we can comment on how we handle bullying claims.
The ABC has a very robust and effective anti-bullying and anti-harassment policy. We encourage any employee who feels they have been bullied or harassed in the workplace, to work through our internal process, which is independent, objective and fair to all parties.
ABC Goulburn Murray has a high-functioning and high-performing team which provides excellent coverage on local issues and takes the region’s good news stories to national audiences.
It is a team we are proud of and fully support.
Mark DeBono Regional Editor, Victoria
We deserve better
In between celebrating a dubious budget surplus, or salivating at the prospect of crucifying the crumbling Liberal-National government at the next federal election, the silence of the ALP on a great many issues, the same issues the LNP remain silent on, needs to be amplified.
We forget that the now-broken instrustrial laws were introduced by the previous Labor government.
The Fair Work Act has now seen record wage theft, casualisation of jobs, and rights of the employee eroded to the point where we now see significant growth in poverty.
Collective bargaining is a non-issue for both major parties. University students must work a great many hours, just to pay for living expenses, in between study commitments.
The ALP has also ignored the real and dire impact climate change is already having, ignored the eight proposed mega mines slated to strip the environment and cause irreparable damage to the water basin.
We must also remember that the ALP is happy to sacrifice privacy with the ill-thought data encryption laws the LNP has put forward. Ignoring climate science is worse than ignoring the science which showed that smoking kills.
Neither major party have developed policies that will meet the needs of Australia in the long term. The very idea that our children’s futures are at stake, financially and environmentally, should send shockwaves to all of us.
For some reason, though, we seem content to be scared with border protection and the demonising of unions.
We deserve better. We should expect better.
And we should be planning for an Australia in the coming decades, not just till the end of an election cycle.
Simon Goss, East Albury
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