Sky News host Rowan Dean says the ABC is “re-running the great Michael Parkinson interviews” with implausible Aussies from the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties – nonetheless some episodes have a “bizarre” content material warning.
The viewer recommendation for some segments of the ‘Parkinson in Australia’ present states the “following program expresses attitudes that are not consistent with current standards and may offend some viewers”.
“It turns out that the national broadcaster is so ashamed of our own past and our heritage that it is celebrating 90 years of sucking on the public teat by warning Australians that what only a generation ago were perfectly normal, frivolous and fun conservations between respectable Aussie adults now needs this bizarre warning,” Mr Dean stated.