And I might have added, national unity in time of war. This is from Andrew Bolt:

Now former host Jonathan Holmes insists the real threat of Islamic terrorism is nothing compared to the imagined threat of global warming:

Tony Abbott did not attend Tuesday’s United Nations climate change summit in New York. But he will, of course, be in New York on Wednesday to help decide what to do about the Islamic State of the Levant…

ISIL, as the federal Attorney-General told the ABC last week, “represents or seeks to be an existential threat to us”. An existential threat!…

ISIL is brutal, and merciless. It undoubtedly threatens the lives and well-being of some hundreds of thousands – perhaps millions – of people in northern Iraq and eastern Syria. It has made clear that it wants its followers to kill Australians too. But, whatever it “seeks to be”, it is not and never will be an existential threat to Australia.

Yet so far as I know, only Crikey’s Bernard Keane has called George Brandis out on his alarmism…It was one call … that precipitated last week’s raids … and … one young man was charged with a terrorism offence.

As the government made sure we knew in double quick time, he had been urged by an ISIL activist in Syria to cut off the head of an innocent Australian. One Australian. There’s an existential threat for you…

More and more laws to stop terrorists; fewer and fewer measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

The ABC is an organisation captured by the far loony left and as such is a danger to the peace, order and good governance of this community. It really does have to go.