Battered by 9 years of Coalition government, the ABC now has a hard road of repair ahead
- Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne

The Liberal-National Coalition government has been defeated, but the legacy of its nine-year onslaught on the ABC remains.
That onslaught consisted of relentless accusations of left-wing bias, a succession of pointless and enervating inquiries, punitive funding cuts, and the use of the ABC for target practice in the...
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