Commentary On Sunday, ABC Chair Ita Buttrose released a blistering statement in response to New South Wales, Senator Andrew Bragg, setting up a senate inquiry to review the ABC complaints process. The complaints process for the ABC has been scandal ridden, with months of intense criticism, including over the handling of editorial failings of the error-ridden documentaries ”Ghost Fire” and ”Juanita Nielsen: A Family Mystery.” Buttrose claims that an inquiry initiated by the Senate will create a “parallel process” which will “threaten the ABC’s independence at the expense of the integrity of this irreplaceable public service.” This is an act of outrageous overreach by the ABC Chair. With no sense of irony, Buttrose, the chair of a taxpayer-funded organisation, accused a democratically elected senator of “political interference,” then in the next breath demanded the Senate “terminate” a senate inquiry. One could only imagine the reaction if the Australian Tax Office or the Bureau of …