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Survey puts Labor behind the Coalition and One Nation in state election race; advocacy groups say care burden will shift to women Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Marks says Grace Tame’s new ABC podcast going to be ‘great’ and of ‘real interest’ Hugh Marks was just asked about Grace Tame’s four-part podcast for the ABC about autism, which has sparked some criticism due to her comments about Israel and Gaza in an ABC interview. I think if you look at the programme itself, it’s a great podcast that she’s done a great job on a topic that I’m sure will be of real interest and real importance to many Australians who suffer from those conditions, and particularly young Australians and young Australian women. So there’s a balance in all these things … for the ABC to be ensuring that we bring great content to air and also acknowledging that, you know, with some of the people that we work with, sometimes there will be controversy. Obviously we’ve looked at Charlie’s comments. I think he did express that they were his own view. They weren’t represented at the ABC. It was a little bit on the hop and a little bit not. So I think we felt comfortable that we were able to accept that his comments weren’t a breach of the ABC code of conduct. Continue reading...