Stop using verbal gymnastics over ABC cuts, backbencher urges PM

By Latika Bourke and Lisa Cox
Updated November 26 2014 - 10:13am, first published 9:30am
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday morning. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday morning. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Protesters rally against ABC budget cuts outside Parliament House on Tuesday. Photo: Andrew Meares
Protesters rally against ABC budget cuts outside Parliament House on Tuesday. Photo: Andrew Meares
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday morning. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday morning. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday morning. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday morning. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday morning. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday morning. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has denied using "verbal gymnastics" over cuts to the ABC after one of his own MPs urged him to call a spade a spade and stop denying the government had broken its election promise.

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