"To lose the ABC would be a catastrophe"

Maybe if 'catastrophe' is used in the dramatic sense.

However no ruin would descend upon the land and no plane would fall from the sky if the ABC was lost for a day, a week or forever.

To bring it all back to reality (and I know the poster who used the quoted phrase was trying to do that), government does not serve the people where it is reluctant to review the need for existing services and agencies. Government must grasp the nettle and prioritise for the expenditure of taxpayers' money. There should be no sacred cows.

There are many other priorities that are not being met, ever, and yes the lack of funds has resulted in significant suffering and deaths and will continue to do so. Easy examples could be the narrow bridges on the nation's Highway 1 and inadequate flood control, such as the lack of one-way gates on the huge stormwater pipes on the Brisbane River. There are dozens more.

What the national broadcaster 'should' be funded to do according to the supporters of the ABC is more akin to an extension of the middle class welfare the same 'progressive' critics say ought to be reined in. To be 'progressive' one needs a compartmentalised brain, apparently.

Taxes should not be used to duplicate what is already being provided without government intervention. There are many alternative sources of news, information and culture that were simply not there when the national broadcaster was set up.

Dear Imajulianutter,

I stopped reading your post after your statement
"Of course you cannot see the bias...No one could
expect you to."

Dear JF Aus,

Thank You for caring what I think.

Dear Bazz,

I'm sorry that your son had such a bad experience with
the ABC. My neighbour's son, a Liberal voter, had the
opposite experience - and he's still there.

Dear LEGO,

What can I say - you're onto me!

Foxy, my son did not have a bad experience, he just did not let on.
He left years later when he got pushed out to get his bosses' husband into my son's job.
A little later he (the bosses' husband),had to leave following a credit card fraud inquirey.

Anyway, my son ended up with a good job elsewhere.

Hi LEGO,

I think you summed up the progressive attitude beautifully. As OLO’ers increase there awareness of their rhetoric and see it for what it is, there is growing frustration with progressive tactics.

Challenging their unsubstantiated claims is tiresome, especially when they refuse to back them up

Hi Foxy,

You made false statements and you made assertions you refuse to back up with links or evidence.

You should either provide the links or acknowledge your untruths and offer your apologies.

You are all sweetness and light whilst ever you remain unchallenged, but when caught out you just ignore the fact, you go all prissy and carry on as if you did nothing wrong.

You’re just another progressive fraudster dressed up with a smile. Anything to avoid being accountable.

I had come to expect more from you, like integrity. As least we’ve had a glimpse of the real Foxy but I can’t help being disappointed to discover the dishonest fraud you really are.

Foxy
I don't understand why you did not read the rest of my post. Given that you have state you are from the left it is an entirely reasonable statement.

You should have read on and addressed the question I posed. That would have been the civil tbing to do.

To cut off midway through a civil dialogue is insensitive, at the least and rude at worst.