… or is Green no longer her favourite colour?

The Media Glass House appreciates that there are some – perhaps many – at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation who are just as upset as senior management at The Age, the Herald Sun, The Australian, 3AW and Sky News are over Daniel Andrews’ “shock” win in Victoria last weekend. Devastated, even.

We won’t name names but we suspect they exist, given the fact that senior ABC reporters got into no trouble at all for blindly following LNP/MSM attack lines that the entire election needed to be fought entirely on how awfully toxic and horrible Andrews was as a person. That’s right. It’s now clear that some, maybe many, at Aunty also thought Labor should have been shunted from power. That the polarising, disliked, drunk, wife-blaming Andrews shouldn’t have been allowed “to get away with it”, as a certain campaign slogan put it. Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink. If only they’d said no more.

So we’re guessing that’s the reason Labor’s return with a healthy majority lasted on ABC platforms earlier this week about as long as a schoolie with his pants down on the Gold Coast.

Ditto for Antony Green’s post-poll seats tally and especially the count of undecided seats. The MGH can’t remember a time when the famous election watcher’s pix, tally board summary and link to the election outcome sat comfortably to the right of the ABC’s home page for some time after each election, regardless of whether the outcome was close or otherwise.

Isn’t politics supposed to be the ABC’s thing?

This week, the link has not even been clearly displayed on the politics sub-page. If there was a story there on the election, the polls tragic on our staff had to open it to find Green’s electronic tally board buried within it. Some days this week there hasn’t been a story to click onto in the first place.

Our poor bastard – yes, we all know he needs to get a life! – had to resort to googling “Antony Green/Victorian election/undecided seats” and finally found not what he wanted: the 2018 final seats outcome!

It’s all rather remarkable considering the ABC is supposed to be the go-to media for politics and there are a lot of people around Oz who take an interest in how votes at federal and state level pan out in the weeks after polling days, especially with the growing percentage of pre-poll votes now cast. The final seats outcomes and the majorities held by winning parties are crucial to any assessment of how following elections will play out. People who enjoy politics need to know this stuff.

Which is why the MGH is entitled to ask whether an upset ABC hierarchy is hiding sad news here.

Even if that’s not the case, it certainly looks to the MGH as a dreadful snub for the organisation’s supposed star politics analyst.

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The MGH is still trying to process a comment the other day from the ABC’s Andrew Probyn that yesterday’s parliamentary censure motion might tarnish Scott Morrison’s legacy as prime minister.

WHAT FUCKING LEGACY!