Foxy: When the Australian National Imams Council issued a media statement that likened Islamic State to a "group of criminals," it received little or any coverage. The same went for when the world's
most prominent Muslim leaders, and Islamic organisations denounce Islamic State - we don't get to read about it.

Are these the same Imams that set up the Great Southern Caliphate Conference at Merrylands last year? The one where their speaker spoke about it being OK to beat you wife & turn Australia into an The Great Southern Islamic Caliphate with Sharia Law & every thing that comes with being Islamic & Middle Eastern. Maybe including their type of Sectarian Wars. Lovely people don't you think?

Curious article: don't you realize that the PM has boycotted ABC since he came to office - his default media are 2GB and SKY.

I'm afraid the Moslems, in their own holy books, have stereotyped the entire global population of 7000 million: 750 million superior Moslem men, 750 million inferior Moslem women, and 5500 million infidels fit only to submit or be put to death. For access to explanations and not mere condemnations, see work of, for example, Ibn Warraq and Rayond Ibrahim, both eminently Googlable. To avoid this, better just hide. But it's an explanation of why the Moslem Fifth Column is so widely detested in the Western world, rather than a mere condemnation of its being isolated.

Wantok

Permit me to clarify.

I am not suggesting the PM personally boycotts the ABC.
I am suggesting that he and Warren Truss instruct the entire coalition parliamentary membership to disengage forthwith from the ABC:

On TV and radio they should cease

All interviews
All appearances
All photo ops
All door-stops

Soon enough the ABC’s audience, so enamoured of bashing Middle Australia will tune out of Aunty.

After all, when there isn’t even a token non-Left politician on say the television programs of Q & A and Lateline or radio shows like AM or PM, many loyal viewers and listeners will very soon get very bored.

They'll all come scuttling back as soon as this distraction blows over because that's all it is - a strategy of distraction and they need the ABC more than it needs them.

Like Triggs' comments on refugee conditions, the question asked on QandA went unanswered and was deliberately escalated into something else to avoid addressing any questions.

Steve Ciabo was also the Minister who compared Gillard to an alcoholic and used the "slit her throat" expression about her leadership, so he's no stranger to intemperate remarks.

As for ABC funding, it costs the average family about $150 per annum for the ABC - which is closely monitored by everybody.

The so-called "free-to-air" media is funded by a levy on all goods called advertising, which cost the average family about $2,100 per year and is free to editorialise any way the owners decide, and that's typically for self-interest.

So now we have private, self-interested media owners charging you $2,100 for the privilege of complaining how your $150 is being spent and you are all being played for suckers if you believe otherwise.

Dance, monkeys, dance!

Wobbles the ABC needs our taxpayer money to survive. We need the ABC like a hole in the head.

We should sell it either to the highest bidder, or better still, to Andrew Bolt, for it's real value. About $1.00 should do.

Wouldn't it be great watching those clowns like Jones, reporting to Bolt, if they want to still collect their exorbitant salaries.