The ABC has been accused of failing to ensure its own impartial journalism following the resignation of senior BBC executives over a doctored speech by Donald Trump, amid revelations the Australian broadcaster’s flagship program similarly cut up the US President’s address on January 6, 2021, the day of the Capitol riot.

BBC director-general Tim Davie and news chief executive Deborah Turness both announced their resignation after the network’s Panorama program edited a Trump speech to make it appear as though he was encouraging a riot at the Capitol.

The speech spliced two segments of the President’s address together that were uttered almost an hour apart, a decision a BBC internal memo concedes was “completely misleading”.

Revelations the ABC’s Four Corners program similarly edited the address have fuelled concerns over the public broadcaster’s ability to meet its