There is now a religious ritual that the ABC performs, a set of words that an individual must utter to be acceptable to the ABC, a mantra…

I was absolutely sickened when, during the leaders debate on the ABC the other night, which I watched so that the rest of the nation did not have to, David Speers, an otherwise thoughtful and intelligent human being and, when he worked at Sky News Australia a fiercely impressive host of such important events, kowtowed to this new religious incantation with this:

David Speers: ‘Let me ask you both a question about climate change.