One of the Albanese government\u2019s most senior minister has slammed a widely-panned skit seemingly denoting violence against mining magnate Gina Rinehart as \u201crubbish\u201d and \u201cpretty revolting\u201d.<\/p>\n
The four-minute clip aired three weeks ago on the ABC\u2019s Race Around The World series.<\/p>\n
The segment ended with the voiceover message: \u201cWhen the revolution comes, will you hide under the bed or will you know exactly how to shove a stick right up Gina Rinehart\u2019s butthole, stirring it round, mixing her guts up nice and smooth, to make one big sausage roll to make something out of nothing\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mrs Rinehart\u2019s Hancock Prospecting has sent legal letters to the national broadcaster. The ABC initially stood behind the program, but has since referred it to their internal Ombudsman.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Health Minister Mark Butler called out the program.<\/p>\n
While he admitted to not having seen the \u201cskit\u201d, Mr Butler said he had read reports about \u201cthe particular passage in it that people are offended by and it\u2019s pretty revolting\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not the sort of thing I think we should see on TV, whether it\u2019s News24, a commercial television station, or our public broadcaster,\u201d he told News24.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrankly, I understand the ombudsman within the ABC is investigating it. That\u2019s appropriate at an independent public broadcaster. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut, you know, why do we have to see rubbish like this on our TVs? Regardless of who it\u2019s about.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have seen coverage of this episode, I understand the person responsible for it has apologised, but, at the end of the day, this sort of material shouldn\u2019t be on our TVs.\u201d<\/p>\n
The creator of the segment, contestant Kate McGuinness, apologised via the ABC on Thursday afternoon, saying she had no intention to incite violence and that here writing was \u201ccartoonish and always satirical\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, jokes do not land with everyone. Its purpose was never to be taken literally. I apologise to anyone I\u2019ve offended,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The ABC initially stood behind the programming, claiming it was \u201ceditorially justifiable\u201d, but have since referred the matter to their internal Ombudsman.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Mrs Rinehart\u2019s Hancock Prospecting sent legal letters to ABC listing a series of civil and criminal breaches they claim arise from the segment and its airing.<\/p>\n
The company previously wrote to the ABC board a week earlier, requesting the segment be removed, a public apology be made, and an investigation into how it was able to be published be commissioned.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne week later, the ABC\u2019s board and senior management have provided no substantive public response, nor any substantive response to Hancock or Mrs Rinehart, and have taken no steps to remove the material from ABC platforms, despite widespread public condemnation and the serious risks its publication and continued publication pose to Mrs Rinehart,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n
\u201cHancock has now formally placed ABC chair Kim Williams AM, deputy chair Lisa Caffery and managing director Hugh Marks on notice of detailed allegations of serious contraventions of multiple Australian criminal and civil laws arising from the ABC\u2019s publication and continued publication of the material.\u201d<\/p>\n
Communications Minister Anika Wells condemned the segment on Wednesday as \u201cunacceptable\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike any Australian, there\u2019s stuff I see on TV that I don\u2019t agree with,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the Albanese government\u2019s most senior minister has slammed a widely-panned skit seemingly denoting violence against mining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[75557,75556,60836,75569,75558,75548,61087,75584,37703,75579,37929,60050,36956,75566,1647,75555,75564,75572,75540,40351,75562,75571,37232,56593,75559,22,21,75547,22644,60862,75576,48916,75560,75550,9715,1928,75552,75583,10635,60040,75551,75565,75573,75585,75541,75580,45636,75539,68461,2908,75577,49752,60834,75574,65099,379,47129,75570,75578,3116,60021,75545,75581,75563,7350,3079,37019,5475,28731,75549,60122,19816,75568,39660,75554,36878,60029,75538,36756,38263,75542,59906,37516,53736,67013,75582,41244,41308,75553,75543,60049,53868,75544,59503,36522,75561,75567,75537,75546,72094,45318,7444,6919,7944,22441,75575],"class_list":["post-63267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-mrs","tag-s-board-and","tag-s-butthole","tag-s-hancock-prospecting","tag-s-most-senior-minister","tag-s-publication","tag-s-race","tag-a-commercial-television-station","tag-a-public-apology","tag-a-senior-albanese-government-minister","tag-a-series","tag-a-stick","tag-a-week","tag-a-widely-panned-skit","tag-abc","tag-abc-chair-kim-williams-am","tag-abc-gina","tag-abc-gina-rinehart-skit","tag-abc-platforms","tag-afternoon","tag-an-abc-segment","tag-an-independent-public-broadcaster","tag-an-investigation","tag-any-australian","tag-any-substantive-response","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-civil-and-criminal-breaches","tag-communications-minister-anika-wells","tag-contestant-kate-mcguinness","tag-continued-publication","tag-coverage","tag-deputy-chair-lisa-caffery","tag-detailed-allegations","tag-friday","tag-gina-rinehart","tag-hancock","tag-hancock-or","tag-health-minister-mark-butler","tag-her-guts","tag-its-airing-the-company","tag-its-publication-and-continued-publication","tag-its-purpose","tag-jokes","tag-labor-mp","tag-legal-letters","tag-magnate-gina-rinehart","tag-managing-director-hugh-marks","tag-material","tag-mining","tag-mining-magnate-gina-rinehart","tag-mr-butler","tag-mrs-rinehart","tag-multiple-australian-criminal-and-civil-laws","tag-news24","tag-newswire-news","tag-no-intention","tag-no-steps","tag-no-substantive-public-response","tag-notice","tag-one-big-sausage-roll","tag-one-week-later","tag-our-public-broadcaster","tag-our-tvs","tag-people","tag-reports","tag-rinehart","tag-rubbish","tag-senior-management","tag-serious-contraventions","tag-stuff","tag-sunday","tag-the-skit","tag-the-abc","tag-the-abc-board","tag-the-albanese-government","tag-the-bed","tag-the-creator","tag-the-day","tag-the-end","tag-the-four-minute-clip","tag-the-material","tag-the-matter","tag-the-national-broadcaster","tag-the-ombudsman","tag-the-particular-passage","tag-the-person","tag-the-program","tag-the-program-while","tag-the-programming","tag-the-revolution","tag-the-segment","tag-the-serious-risks","tag-the-sort","tag-the-statement","tag-the-voiceover-message","tag-the-world-series-the-segment","tag-their-internal-ombudsman-on","tag-this-episode","tag-this-sort","tag-three-weeks","tag-thursday","tag-tv","tag-violence","tag-wednesday","tag-widespread-public-condemnation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}