'Direct assault' - Labor blasts Hanson's ABC deal

By Lucy Battersby
Updated August 16 2017 - 12:43am, first published 12:36am
Senators Richard Di Natale and Sarah Hanson-Young address the media during a doorstop interview at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday 21 June 2017. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Senators Richard Di Natale and Sarah Hanson-Young address the media during a doorstop interview at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday 21 June 2017. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Pauline Hanson's One Nation party has given the government's media reforms "conditional support" in exchange for a $12 million boost to community radio funding and changes to the ABC, including a greater focus on regional areas, more financial transparency and increasing its political impartiality.

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