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December 6th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
THE decision to award the Australia Network contract to the ABC is Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s attempt to “bring on a fight” with Kevin Rudd, opposition communication spokesman Malcolm Turnbull said.
The move highlights a widening rift between the pair and Sky News – part-owned by the The Daily Telegraph’s owner News Limited – deserves compensation for the botched tender process, Mr Turnbull said.
“Friction is an understatement. It’s more like a widening rift between the prime minister and Kevin Rudd,” Mr Turnbull said today.
“To abandon that tender and dump effectively Kevin Rudd’s preferred candidate, Sky News, while he is on a plane somewhere else in the world, that just shows this is a provocation.
“Julia Gillard has done this deliberately in order to provoke Kevin Rudd. I suspect she is trying to bring on a fight with him.”
The government announced late yesterday that it would permanently award the $223 million contract to the ABC, ending a bid by Sky News.
The commercial broadcaster has flagged it will seek compensation for taking part in the scuttled tender process.
Sky News and the ABC both bid for the 10-year contract to broadcast the network to 44 nations in Asia and the Pacific.
Mr Turnbull said Sky was morally entitled to compensation.
“If you are asking the question from a moral point of view, sure, Sky has every reason to feel very aggrieved.”
But he said a clause in the tender might allow the government to avoid paying Sky News.
“There may be some legal reason why the government can wriggle out of that, but morally I think they’re in an awful position,” Mr Turnbull said.
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