One Nation's James Ashby has drawn a stark and controversial comparison, likening the party's relationship with the ABC to a domestic violence situation, after the minor party moved to ban some of the public broadcaster's journalists from attending a press conference in Melbourne.
Ashby made the remarks as One Nation took the unusual step of excluding certain ABC media representatives from the event, a move that drew immediate attention for both the action itself and the inflammatory language used to justify it.
The domestic violence analogy, deployed to describe what Ashby characterised as a damaging and one-sided dynamic between One Nation and the national broadcaster, is likely to provoke significant criticism given the sensitivity surrounding the issue in Australia.
