What gets me is that, ABC reported on this report at the time, however whenever they do one of their "Housing Market" expose pieces its never brought up, focusing instead on some foreign expert who says the supply is fine.
So you get this completely bizarre reporting that jumps from one side to the other depending on the latest person speaking to them.
Depends on the nature of the piece, the amount of free time to expand, and contextual relevance.
ABC Australia, over a long period of time, tends to be balanced and to prefer presenting stories with more domain contect than just a single 'nugget' of isolated current event.
That said, they've taken quite a hit on funding in the past decade (and more) and have suffered bouts of unaligned management (seeking to rip down and diminish public broadcasting as a goal).
That aside, the nature of current nugget reoporting is it's a fact (at some point in time) that a report with a particular take on housing was just released, at another time it's a fact that senior political figures and government policy advisors are touting some 'expert' who has a contrary position.
That puts the onus on the viewer to thread together their own big picture and open Media Watch to frame what's going on.
In an ideal Australia the ABC would be better funded and there would be several hours more a week of good investigative journalism across a fange of subjects.
I dont feel like its intentional bias, but theres an implicit bias when your organisation is largely responsible for training all the new journalists in the country.
Like I dont expect some young journo writing a longer docupiece on the housing market to have researched it to the depth I would like.
But, I expect ABC as an institution to have an institutional memory longer than 12 months.
