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Hello, I’m Alexandra Smith and I will be with you today as the ABC and SBS appear before the royal commission.
Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal was first to give evidence. Segal has previously told the commission that antisemitism was a “virus” that had evolved.
The ABC’s editorial director Gavin Fang is following Segal, then ABC Ombudsman Fiona Cameron.
SBS’s director of audio and language David Thanh Man Tue Hua, its director of news and current affairs, Amanda Wicks, and SBS Ombudsman Amy Stockwell will also appear.
We have moved on to the SBS, with David Hua who is the broadcaster’s director of audio and language content. He was previously head of international strategy at the ABC.
Ms Segal says many from the Jewish community have concerns about the way public broadcasters report about the Israel-Gaza war. (ABC News)
Australia's Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal, has accused the ABC of being its own "judge, counsel and jury", recommending an independent oversight committee be established to review the public broadcaster's compliance with its charter obligations.
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Antisemitism envoy says public broadcasters, which currently have an ombudsman to handle complaints, need an independent oversight committee
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The antisemitism envoy, Jillian Segal, wants a new âoversightâ committee to vet the ABC and SBSâs Israel coverage, she told the royal commission on Thursday morning.
Both the ABC and SBS have an independent ombudsman to handle complaints.
Segal said a committee outside the organisation should have oversight and that there was a âcommon and pervasive perceptionâ in the Jewish community that the public broadcastersâ coverage of the war in the Middle East âlacked balanceâ, that there was an overemphasis on Gaza compared with other conflicts, and that the coverage gave disproportionate voice to anti-Israel perspectives.
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