Then after a back and forth over whether the ABC has reported on the nuclear policy fairly (it has, it’s just the Coalition is all butthurt over people not liking it’s post-it of a policy) Littleproud is asked if he would call the ABC the hate media and says:

I think unfortunately, James, what’s happened is much of my electorates, people have dropped off listening to the ABC. And that’s a shame because I think it should be more about news and less about views.

But I have had constructive conversations with Kim Williams who I find an honourable man and I think ABC’s important to me particularly in regional Australia, and I have got to say I worked very well with David Anderson in making sure we got extra journalists out into places like Alice Springs, even in my electorate, in places like Charleville, so our Australian story can be told but I think the ABC needs to just to return to more news, less views. I think that’s what the ABC was predicated on. It does a really good job when it sticks to that. And I think it has a future in not only in regional Australia, but in our country if it sticks to those principles and Kim Williams and I have a very constructive relationship around that. I have given him good feedback as well as he’s given me.