The ABC deserves attack because it is dumbing down people who should be informed of dangerous new situations in order to urgently find and implement solutions.

ABC supporters from the Central Coast of NSW would do well to consider devastation of their now algae ridden waterways that once provided fresh seafood and fishing for locals and tourists.
Amateur fishing once kept kids off the street.
Local seafood and professional fishing kept money in the local economy instead of draining it out to buy imported fish.

Amateur fishing tourism nationally used to keep motels and holiday flats and shops and boating and tackle people in business.

Fish and chips used to be a source of healthy low cost food for poorer people but now fish is one of the highest cost meals in restaurants. Some restaurants have taken some fish off their menu because even wealthy people choose not to pay the now extraordinary high cost.

The ABC has not investigated and reported mass starvation of mutton birds along coast extending from Mackay to South Australia and around Tasmania. That mortality is not natural as some media reports, because it involves low population primary starvation due to food deprivation.
When pressed on the marine animal starvation, one top level National Parks officer said the ocean environment can no longer support present wildlife numbers. How did that happen? When?
Has anyone heard about this state of the ocean situation from the ABC?

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The ABS gagged effort to hand feed the abandoned humpback calf “colin the whale” that was nuzzling yacht hulls while looking to feed in Central Coast waters of Pittwater.
Check Google, most media reports of the nuzzling have been deleted from the www but the euthanasia news may remain.
The ABC did an interview early during the nuzzling but it was not broadcast in Sydney at least.
An undeleted blog may remain to tell the early part of the true story.

The ABC is not investigating and reporting the unmanaged sewage nutrient loading dumped daily in coastal ecosystem waters at Sydney that flow north with wind and with tide into Central Coast waters where algae is choking seagrass nurseries and food web supply to ocean fish and other animals.
The ABC is not reporting impact of devastated coastal marine ecosystems but does report greenie coast care projects looking after boring virtually useless sand hills. The ABC is ignoring the underwater environment. The ABC is shunning lifetimes of experience of divers.

There have been seven dead whales on Fraser island alone during a two year period but has this and the reason for it been investigated and reported by the ABC? Why are Australian people being kept dumb about these vitally important “canary in the coal mine” ocean indicators?

National Geographic related a critically serious situation about 90 percent of big fish gone, but has anyone heard of that situation from the ABC? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0515_030515_fishdecline.html

It’s not just big fish that are devastated.
Independent evidence indicates overfishing is not the problem and that the actual problem is sewage and land use nutrient overload pollution, nutrient pollution is feeding algae, algae destroying bay and lagoon seagrass nurseries. Fish are not immune to starvation. Hungry and starving animals do not breed successfully, animal populations do not regenerate, but does the ABC report this?
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The ABC did not report or participate in the United Nations World Environment Day 2004 with the focus “Empty Seas and Oceans – wanted dead or alive”. It’s not just the ABC, check Google; government and media libraries. Just a few schools in SA participated in that UN 2004 focus.

On Radio Australia in the Pacific the ABC goes on and on about global warming and climate change and CO2 issues, without truthfully or at all investigating and reporting the 69 percent increase in maternal mortality, mortality that independent evidence indicates is linked to protein deficiency malnutrition and anaemia.

Cost of petrol for islanders to catch fish is more than cost in Australia. Islanders have lost their free and low cost local fish availability and affordability.

Increase in islander non communicable disease (NCD) coincides with decrease in available essential protein seafood, increase in hardship living, and increase in civil unrest.
The Pacific is no longer an idyllic attraction to the Australian tourism region. Respect for Australia is also being lost with more and more produce being imported to islands from Asia.
Australian farmers and manufacturers are losing because lack of knowledge of the situation is preventing Australian understanding of need for various relevant solutions.

The Australian ABC is I think committing crime against the environment and humanity, against humanity because the ABC is not reporting the worsening malnutrition and NCD amongst seafood dependent Pacific Islands people, good people, impacted by worsening devastation of local and SW Pacific Ocean fish supply and collapse of supply sustainability.

Why should the ABC not be attacked for failure in news reporting aspects of it’s Charter.

Hi JF Aus

Your comments are too brief mate. Much more please.

Each time I've switched on ABC for the past 40+ odd years I to smell the bouquet - as you so poetically put it:

"The ABC is not investigating and reporting the unmanaged sewage nutrient loading dumped daily"

Je suis constipé!

Pete

I guess each to his/her own.
I'm not really into reality TV and
the commercial channels. There's rarely
anything worth watching on them.
And I'm not into the dribbles of Andrew Bolt.
However the ABC has some great programs -
RAKE - is just one that I enjoy. Of course
there's Media Watch and "Q and A," both
excellent programs. News 24 and The Drum -
are also great providers from what we get
through the colon of the Mainstream Media.

But as I said - to each his/her own.

Foxy,
It's nice you're happy about tuning in to ABC programming. The question I have for you is are you willing to pay for it? Would you vote for it with your wallet, and how many Australians would?

Because there seem to be many others who are tired of the lies and abuses of the ABC, perpetrated upon us with no avenues for redress. I don't tune in very often. My stomach can't take it anymore. But it annoys that whether I tune in to it or not, I still have to support it through my taxes.

You say it's 'each to their own'. But thats not right, because at the moment we all have to pay for it.