He said while the ombudsman, Fiona Cameron, had found that the film didn’t breach editorial policies on harm and offence, it fell short of “community expectations”, and the ABC would change its editorial guidance. Journalist, author and academic, Dr Margaret Simons, said Marks was right to apologise but rewriting editorial policies “wasn’t necessary”. “My main question is, were the ABC policies followed in the sense of upward referral? If editorial policies are substantially rewritten in the light of what I suspect is a failure of the ABC’s internal processes … that’s not good.” The president of ABC Friends, Cassandra Parkinson, said the ABC had “overreacted in trying to appease Ms Rinehart”.