...The ABC and Education are on a parallel course to “nowhere”… both are guilty of issuing outcomes of dross…any wonder when 90% of budgets are consumed in wages…!

Good article.

<<Senator Cory Bernardi said that whatever else it was, it was 'not our ABC' - by which he certainly meant 'the Coalition's ABC'>>

I'd interpret it wider. It's not the coalitions ABC, and it's not even the ALPs ABC, but most of the time it comes pretty close to being the Greens ABC.

The situation with the ABC is nothing short of outrageous. They don't even make any attempt to hide their blatant bias. Why should any group, let alone a political minority, have the privilege of government funding of their choice of endless nauseating big government propaganda on multiple channels? Imagine if it was a minority religion being publicly funded to air its own biased version of everything all the time, like the Scientologists, or the Baptists or the Catholics. Everyone would recognise straight away the issue as a matter of principle and reject it.

Well? Any discussion of the ABC needs to start with why anyone should be forced to pay for the government to run a broadcasting service in the first place. The hope that they will ever stick by their code of conduct is vain - Caesar appealing to Caesar - but even if they did, there is still no reason for it to be government funded.

People who want to listen to that content can pay for it themselves. The suggestion that they are serving some higher social value is laughable.

The ABC should be sold off immediately.

Why do I get the feeling you all tune into Alan on the wireless set.

The right's war on reality is fighting another battle it can't win.
What next governament funded creationist channel?

Notice how cobber doesn't give any *reason* why people should be forced to fund the ABC, and instantly degenerates into name-calling and accusations of unreason? This is the left wing's idea of a defence of reason.

It's the left wing who are the creationists, with their superstition that government magically creates benefits for society at no cost through stealing money. Completely nutty.

Cobber, why shouldn't those who want the ABC fund it themselves, and those who don't, not be forced into it?

Can anyone tell me if there are any men employed in the ABC newsrooms? From what we see a equal opportunity action should improve the staffing balance, in favor of men.

It was just after the promotional blitz of the new lady news anchor in Queensland, & her taking the chair that I finally gave up on the ABC news.

It had all ready become dominated by the left, but you could skirt around that, & get some idea of important facts. Now the topics covered have become so feminine interest dominated, & even international events so covered from the female interest point of view, it is not only biased, but actually useless in getting any real information from their coverage.

It is a little like the new news at 7.00 PM on some commercials. They have introduced the same light weight coverage in these as they apply in their morning programs. "Human Interest" type garbage, all about feelings, with nothing factual to base your opinion on anywhere. It is aimed straight at ladies having a nice sit down with a cuppa.

This it now appears is the idea of ABC news. Avoid anything factual, your reporters have to have some nouse to do that type of reporting. We now have a bunch of university trained "Journalists" who's only qualification appears to be the ability to write good "what I did on my holiday" essays, & that is the level of news coverage.

Yep sell the ABC if possible. If no one will buy it, give it to the Labor party, even pay them to take it. With their management ability, it would send them broke in just a few months, & good riddance to both.