When a national broadcaster airs satire that offends powerfully, the question it must answer is not merely whether rules were broken, but whether trust was kept. On July 12, the ABC broadcast a Race Around the World episode in which filmmaker Kate McGuinness delivered a graphic, violent fantasy involving mining magnate Gina Rinehart — material the ABC's own ombudsman later found did not breach editorial standards, yet which the broadcaster's leadership chose to apologise for anyway. The episode has since been removed, and the ABC has committed to revising its editorial guidance on violence — a