Is the Federal Government legally liable for treating Sky News unfairly?

Both the Murdoch media and the ABC have in common an appalling record of incorrect and deficient reportage over the key issues of war, poverty and climate change.

The Elephant in the Room crimes of the Murdoch media - and to a lesser extent of other Mainstream media (MSM) - principally involve:

(1) censorship, non-reportage and under-reportage, most notably of the huge crimes of the US and its war criminal allies (12 million war-related deaths so far in just the US wars in Iraq (1990-2011), Somalia (1992-2011) and Afghanistan (2001-2011) alone; see "Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide": https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ) ;

(2) dangerous, anti-science, false reportage in support of the fossil fuel Lobby and climate change denialists, noting that climate genocide from unaddressed man-made climate change is predicted to kill about 10 billion people this century (see "Climate Genocide": https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ ); and

(3) perversion of the English-speaking Democracies to Murdochracies (Big Media determine truth, general public perception and how people vote) and Lobbyocracies (Big Money buys government policy).

The World is acutely threatened by nuclear weapons, poverty and man-made climate change. If the World is to respond in a sensible and timely fashion it needs to apply rational risk management that successively involves (a) correct information, (b) scientific analysis (the critical testing of potentially falsifiable hypotheses) and (c) informed systemic change to minimize risk.

Unfortunately, Big Money typically perverts rational risk management in the Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies by (a) lies, censorship, intimidation and slies (spin-based untruths) , (b) anti-science spin (the selective use of asserted facts to support a partisan position) and (c) blame and shame rather than science-informed systemic change, with war being the most disastrous outcome.

The pro-war, pro-fossil fuel, pro-US imperialism, and climate change denialist Murdoch media have subverted Democracy and perverted rational risk management in the Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies through political pressure, censorship, non-reportage and false reportage, most horribly in relation to war, war-related deaths and the worsening climate crisis.

People around the world must act now to protect themselves from worsening climate genocide and one of the most effective things they can do to bolster rational risk management is to Boycott Murdoch media (see "Boycott Murdoch Media": https://sites.google.com/site/boycottmurdochmedia/ ).

The taxpayer-funded ABC is little better but at least is theoretically open to democratic, Parliamentary intervention to constrain its unethical and deficient reportage. The ABC has traditionally trodden a path of "balance" between the 2 major political groups in Australia, namely the the Liberal Party-National Party Coalition (Right) and the Australian Labor Party (ALP) (Left) (collectively known as the Lib-Labs). However a huge shift to the Right by Labor has meant that the ABC now typically positions itself between the Right and the Extreme Right.

The ALP has become dominated by neoconservative, pro-American and pro-Zionist "pushes" to the extent that the party that was once anti-war, pro-human rights, anti-racist and pro-environment has become pro-war, human rights abusing, pro-Zionist, racist, pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-logging, pro-Educational Apartheid, pro-American Imperialism, anti-environment and anti-science.The ALP has become Another Liberal Party, an Alternative Liberal Party, an Apartheid Labor Party, an Apartheid Israel-supporting Party, an American Lackey Party, an Anti-Environment Labor Party, an Anti-Science Labor Party, an Anti-Education Labor Party and a spin-driven Australian Lying Party.

The ABC has correspondingly lurched to the Right to the detriment of sensible, informed public discussion in Australia and indeed the very independence of Australia. More seriously, a Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-beholden ABC has now developed an entrenched culture of censorship, self-censorship, lying by omission, lying by commission, holocaust ignoring and genocide ignoring (see "ABC Censorship": https://sites.google.com/site/abccensorship/ ).

That said, one presumes that both Sky and the ABC should be compensated for wasting $x milion dollars on a now-scrapped tender process.