‘Senators will be demanding answers’: ABC’s David Anderson to cop grilling over doctored footage

The ABC’s managing director David Anderson will face a Senate estimates hearing on Tuesday, but the rising cost of operations at the national broadcaster is likely to be the least of his concerns.

The Australian reports that Anderson will be grilled over the insertion of fake gunshot audio into a 2022 report, and a review into the matter, which the MD says would be finished by October, but is yet to surface.

The independent review addresses a “series of allegations and concerns” which was captured during operations by the 2nd Commando Regiment during a 2012 deployment in Afghanistan.

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