ABC chief says Stan Grant unfairly attacked by the Australian in story about ‘altercation’ with colleague

Stan Grant was the subject of a piece in the Australian investigating what it called a ‘public bullying incident’. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

The managing director of the ABC, David Anderson, has defended Stan Grant from what he says was an “unfair attack” published on the front page of the Australian that was “not in the public interest”.

The article in the Murdoch broadsheet on Tuesday said ABC management had investigated what it claimed was a “public bullying incident” involving Grant and a senior ABC colleague in the foyer of the ABC’s Sydney headquarters.