Next time someone tells you the ABC has a left-wing bias punch them in the face get them to explain this (via the daily flute):

STEPHANIE KENNEDY: Do any Australian agencies, federal or State have a similar shoot-to-kill policy as the British authorities?

JOHN HOWARD: We have appropriate policies.

STEPHANIE KENNEDY: So is there a shoot-to-kill policy?

JOHN HOWARD: We have appropriate policies.

STEPHANIE KENNEDY: The British intelligence agencies …

I’m sorry? Is that it? Perhaps the ABC need to run this checklist past their interviewers, in particular point 7:

Silence is golden. … When you start asking those provocative questions, the answers most likely will be short, useless or carefully worded. You may not get an answer at all. If this occurs, look your source in the eye and don’t say a word.

But then I guess Howard would boycott AM if they started demanding actual answers rather than sound bites. Gotta love this democracy thing, keeping our leaders accountable and all that good stuff.