Their ABC’s Utter DefeatAt 9pm on Wednesday night I submitted to Quadrant Online my outline of the ABC vs Gina Rinehart stoush, which you can read below unmodified. And then you backed it in with a very easy kind of nasty gag about Gina Rinehart. Gina Rinehart is the billionaire backer of Pauline Hanson’s resurgent One Nation, which enjoys the support of roughly one in four voters, according to the polls. The ABC’s vaunted “independence” means ministers if so inclined can only get the Governor-General to sack the ABC chair on legalistic grounds including undefined ‘misbehaviour’. [4]The ABC’s Hugh Marks, seeking a fig-leaf for a potential backdown, has referred the sodomy segment to ABC Ombudsman Fiona Cameron to adjudicate.