WA Premier Roger Cook dinner slams ABC over digicam crew’s ‘complicity‘ with Woodside protesters
West Australian Premier Roger Cook dinner has complained to ABC chair Ita Buttrose concerning the broadcaster’s “complicity” in a deliberate protest on the dwelling of power big Woodside’s chief.
A 4 Corners tv crew was with three local weather activists when counter-terrorism police arrested the protesters outdoors chief govt Meg O’Neill’s Perth dwelling on Tuesday.
Mr Cook dinner wrote he had “severe issues” over the incident to “allegedly protest, vandalise and, within the course of, terrorise Ms O’Neill and her household”.
He stated he doubted the Disrupt Burrup Hub campaigners would have focused Ms O’Neill’s property if the ABC crew weren’t current to publicise the “appalling actions”.
“The truth that an ABC TV crew attended the house of a personal citizen to doc the committing of alleged prison acts is a trigger for excellent concern and morally fallacious,” Mr Cook dinner stated.
“It’s troublesome to grasp how a TV crew couldn’t perceive how their presence at a personal residence solely inspired these activists.
‘The ABC was complicit’
“Wittingly or unwittingly, the ABC was complicit.”
Disrupt Burrup Hub protesters have in flip accused WA police of unfairly concentrating on the properties of campaigners and appearing to guard Woodside’s pursuits.
The ABC beforehand stated a 4 Corners workforce attended the property to collect materials for a possible report and didn’t know concerning the protest plan.
“Simply previous to the motion the workforce obtained a tip to go to an tackle,” a spokeswoman stated.
“That they had no data of what was on the tackle or that it was somebody’s home.”
She stated the digicam crew and reporter didn’t trespass on Ms O’Neill’s property and in “no method colluded with the activists”.
Three males and a lady have been charged with one rely every of conspiracy to commit an indictable offence.
Two appeared in courtroom on Wednesday and had been launched on bail.
The opposite two are scheduled to look later within the month.
-AAP
