News Limited goes berserk over the snub to its associated company’s tender for the Australia Network, which has now been given to the ABC in perpetuity. For a sample of the vitriol see Mark Day’s article: The Gillard government may have ended the Australia Network tender process and decided to award the $22.3 million-a-year contract to the ABC in perpetuity but the political pain from this extraordinary series of bungles of its own making is just beginning.