John Howard s chief of staff Grahame Morris once memorably described the ABC as our enemies talking to our friends , a neat encapsulation of the irony the public broadcaster s viewers were often high-end A-B demographic types who vote Liberal. About the same time, another memorable phrase entered the lexicon: doctors wives . This was shorthand for once conservative upper-middle class women embracing green-left positions, expressed in the shifts of blue-ribbon seats from lifetime Liberals to progressive independents. And so the terrifying question came to many conservatives: had the ABC finally succeeded in turning its friends into its enemies? It s largely a conspiracy theory but like all conspiracy theories it has a kernel of truth, which brings us to Monday nights on the ABC - compulsory viewing for the media and political class and the so-called intelligentsia. Or at least they were.
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