Southwood upheld the inquiry's findings that Lawrie acted unfairly and with bias over the former Labor government's offer of a 10-year rent-free lease of the historic Stella Maris site in Darwin to Unions NT.
But with the current licence fee settlement due to come under review in the next parliament, the broadcaster has come under fire from Conservatives who accuse it of a liberal bias.
If age, gender and class correlate with this bias, then smart weighting might fix it.
The polls were always likely to be subject to bias, and now we have learnt that this bias proved all-important More concrete still, what if the sort of person who only ever thinks about politics once every five years, whose vote might turn on a hazy sense of which leader they most trust not to screw up the economy, is disinclined to join internet panels?
Tony Hall has said that the BBC should be "bold and inventive about the future" in a note to all staff, which comes amid rightwing criticism of anti-Tory bias during the election and fears over the future of the licence fee.
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"He continues to reject all claims of wrongdoing and we hold that the integrity of the court system was marred by the bias, slurs and factual inaccuracies in the election judgment".
"He is being dropped because of his perceived bias towards deregulation.
The BBC's news chief James Harding has said politicians "from all parties" threatened the BBC's future funding over its election coverage, and poured scorn on allegations that it had a leftwing bias.
Hall said the BBC had to guard against "metropolitan bias".
It's enough to make you think that Dionte Green's case might follow the same path: young black man murdered without the protocol to investigate the terrible, complicated bias potentially behind the whole familiar crime, nothing changes, another black man dies tomorrow.
