I’ve had countless messages from folk disappointed at having missed the premiere of Attack Dogs, the new Lisa Millar project that hit our screens during Tuesday morning’s ABC News Breakfast program.

And I fully understand their frustration and I’m buggered why ABC promotions didn’t give the opening episode the full treatment for days leading up to its screening. It deserved nothing less because it was an absolute ripper in more ways than one.

Millar was superb in her interview with Queensland Premier Steven Miles as she adopted a permanently disappointing tone and ran a series of LNP talking points as “facts” that would have had Fauziah Ibrahim thinking she’s really got to lift her own game from now on.

“The Queensland economy has debt levels that are stonkingly high,” Millar snarled from the outset to well and truly put Miles on the defensive.

“You must know that all these pre-election sweeteners you’ve trotted out are not going to con Queensland voters who are well and truly over your tired, decade-long, government?

“All the polls suggest you’re going to be annihilated come October, so really why do you even bother,” she snarled, her top lip curling up to expose sets of razar-sharp canines.

“Your pathetic attempts to stay in power are all rather sad, don’t you reckon?”

But it was on the subject of the state government’s unforgivably high coal royalties that had left the coal industry “continuing to decline” that Millar really showed her expertise as the finest journalist to ever come out of Gypmie.

“Have you blown your chance by taking such huge royalties?” Millar snarled before lunging at the monitor and forcing Miles in the ABC’s Brisbane studio to crash to the floor, taking his chair with him.

Miles tried his best to recover, saying the coal industry was not in decline and there had been an increase in coal industry investment and coal industry jobs in an era of super-profit making but Millar would have none of that, lunging repeatedly at the monitor and snarling piteously.

Further episodes of Attack Dogs, including more interviews with Miles and other state government ministers, will be run on News Breakfast in the leadup to the October 26 state election.

If the ABC doesn’t want to promote this series in the way it deserves, I’ll certainly be doing my bit to alert my fan base as to when more episodes are due to be screened. It’s must-watch television and I know Millar’s late dad, Clarrie Millar, the long-time Nationals member for the federal seat of Wide Bay, would have been very proud of her performance in this follow-up series to the two Muster Dogs franchises.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Iview does not have the daily News Breakfast programs on replay offer, so our columnist Buddy Tugg freely admits he’s had to rely on his memory as to exactly what Lisa Millar said. “I may have paraphrased a fair bit but I’m sure I’ve got the tone pretty much right,” he said.