ABC 4 Corners movie crew stand on driveway of Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill’s home in Perth regardless of claims they did not go on non-public property whereas videoing protest

An ABC digital camera crew was pictured on the driveway of a CEO’s dwelling documenting an environmental protest – regardless of the broadcaster initially claiming that none of its journalists stood on non-public property.

Journalists from the flagship 4 Corners program controversially filmed protesters demonstrating exterior Woodside Vitality CEO Meg O’Neill’s Perth dwelling at 6.45am final Tuesday.

Ms O’Neill informed a enterprise perform in Perth that what occurred had left her ‘shaken, fearful and distressed’ and Local weather Minister Chris Bowen mentioned there was ‘zero place or tolerance for assaults on non-public houses and households’.

Amid the furore, the ABC issued a press release claiming its journalists ‘remained on public land observing what was taking place and getting some imaginative and prescient, as journalists do’.

‘They at no time went on to non-public property or had any involvement in what was taking place,’ the assertion added.  

Sky Information obtained an image of ABC journalists standing on the driveway of Woodside Vitality’s CEO Meg O’Neill’s dwelling – showing to contradict the broadcaster’s declare that none of its journalists stood on non-public property

Journalists from the flagship 4 Corners program controversially filmed protesters demonstrating exterior Woodside Vitality CEO Meg O’Neill’s Perth dwelling at 6.45am final Tuesday

‘The ABC workforce by no means colluded with the activists,’ 

However Sky News obtained an image displaying the crew standing on the driveway of Ms O’Neill’s dwelling. 

For the reason that emergence of the {photograph}, the ABC has mentioned it’s ‘conducting an in depth examination of the circumstances surrounding this matter’.

ABC Managing Director David Anderson reportedly despatched a letter expressing remorse – however not an apology – to Ms O’Neill.

Final week, Communications Minister Michelle Rowland informed federal parliament she is awaiting ABC briefings on their involvement.

A minimum of 5 folks from a gaggle known as Disrupt Burrup Hub have been at Ms O’Neill’s dwelling final Tuesday. 

They have been protesting in opposition to mining and improvement of the Burrup peninsula in northern Western Australia. 

Two of the protesters have appeared in a Perth court docket charged with conspiring to commit an indictable offence.

Woodside Vitality has reportedly lodged an official grievance with the ABC, alleging it breached its personal editorial insurance policies by being on the protest. 

Western Australian Premier Roger Cook dinner wrote to the broadcaster’s chairwoman, Ita Buttrose, to precise his concern. 

‘Wittingly or unwittingly, the ABC was complicit,’ he mentioned, in keeping with the Financial Review. 

Disrupt Burrup Hub mentioned on Twitter it was ‘very public in our non-violent method to defending and defending life’.

‘There was no intention of getting into O’Neill’s home, nobody’s security was below menace, and the one supply of intimidation was the counter-terror police ambush,’ they mentioned.

Every day Mail Australia contacted the ABC for remark. 

Woodside Vitality has reportedly lodged an official grievance with the ABC, alleging it breached its personal editorial insurance policies by being on the protest 

The ABC has beforehand denied ‘colluding’ with the activists because the broadcaster got here below fireplace instantly after the protest.

A TV crew filmed the protest for a narrative,’ the ABC mentioned in a press release.

‘Any notion that the TV crew was colluding with the protesters is fake.’

The Burrup Peninsula, situated in Western Australia’s Pilbara area and referred to as Murujuga to conventional house owners, accommodates the world’s largest and oldest assortment of petroglyphs.

Disrupt Burrup Hub claims Woodside’s operations within the space and its proposed enlargement are the most important new fossil gasoline mission within the nation and will produce billion of tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2070.

It has carried out a collection of actions in opposition to Woodside this yr, together with releasing stench fuel at its Perth headquarter in June, forcing the evacuation of about 2000 employees members.

Woodside responded final week via its attorneys, who despatched a letter to a Disrupt Burrup Hub campaigner and mentioned the corporate desires to start out civil court docket motion in opposition to members of the group.