BUSHBY and ABETZ LOSE THE PLOT

The Old Nick Company Inc

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BUSHBY and ABETZ LOSE THE PLOT
Community Theatre Penalised
Innocent Director Punished

The Old Nick Company is a Tasmanian community theatre society with a six decade history presenting diverse Australian and classic theatre works to its local community.

The Company feels it is being punished in its community aims as a result of comments in recent Senate Estimates hearings regarding ABC Local Radio and as a direct result of the fact that the Old Nick Company is staging the Tasmanian premiere of the musical Keating!

From Senate Estimates Hansard (Environment, Communications and the Arts).
Senators David Bushby and Eric Abetz questioning Mr Mark Scott, Managing Director of the ABC:

Senator BUSHBY—Last Tuesday, 2 February, your presenter Tim Cox on his morning show on 936 ABC Hobart mentioned a play which was being put on by the current Andy Muirhead Breakfast show producer Craig Wellington. He is the producer of the play, called Keating! The Musical. It was promoted on the Tim Cox show.
This play is being performed specifically as a fundraiser and it is also being performed at the Theatre Royal generally, but the play itself, as produced by Craig Wellington, is being performed specifically as a Julia Gillard fundraiser for state candidate Lisa Singh in the coming weeks, and state ALP candidate David O’Byrne is also holding a fundraiser around that play.

A confidential internal source at the ABC has confirmed to The Old Nick Company that an internal investigation has found the Senators’ claims incorrect:
OLD NICK COMPANY 23022010.pdf

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