Earlier in the year we
reported that AM reporter Tony Eastley had taken up a role as MC for the Climate Commission's public forums. The Australian covered the matter in this story under the headline "
ABC defends host's climate gig".
Today Eastley gave Climate Commissioner Lesley Hughes a very soft interview on AM (see
Health imperilled by climate change: Report).
It would have been interesting to see how Lesley Hughes would have handled questions relating to the
absence of references in the commission's report to the work of Paul Reiter on mosquito borne diseases that contradicts the climate commission's alarmist narrative. Also of interest the exchange between Hughes' co-author Tony McMichael and Mike Hulme in relation to Reiter as featured in recently released
climategate emails.
ABC's new
Editorial Guidelines no longer mention the phrase "conflict of interest". However section 1.3 of the new guidelines state:
1.3 Ensure that editorial decisions are not improperly influenced by political, sectional, commercial or personal interests.
On face value it appears Mr Eastley's interview puts him in breach of this clause. We have asked the ABC for an explanation.
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