It's a common problem, an organisation that is almost entirely funded by the taxpayer competing against privately owned organisations that need to generate revenue to keep afloat. It is not surprising when the privately run companies without a river of taxpayer funds to support them fail, and the community is left poorer for it.

A classic case recently is the Alinta power station in SA that closed because it couldn't compete against the hugely subsidized renewable power. The result is that it closed and power prices shot up between 40% and 80% strangling businesses and putting the Whyalla steel plant that had survived Craig Emerson's chicken dance and the carbon tax at huge risk of closing.

The government's job is not to run companies or businesses that the private sector can provide cheaper and better.

I have reach that stage where I believe that the ABC has to go.

Save the Rural Radio and rural TV as well as the Classic FM.As for the rest sell it or close it.

Vote Compass.. I still regard myself as a relic Agrarian Socialist.. similar to Bob Katter.

The ABC "vote compass" made me an ALP supporter which I most definitely am not !

I barely watch ABC TV nowadays.. I am waiting for the return of Father Brown.

I notice that 72 are running the repeats of it ( along with a stack of other ex ABC shows) so maybe I will just await the "encore" on 72

Incidentally can someone tell me .. exactly why does ABC2 exist . What does it do ?

Also why is the High Definition ABC ... ABC24.. The Drum and political repeats in Hi-Def ?

Aspley, after watching the Four Corners show last night it is very clear that the ABC must stay

The ABC is rathole into which the government throws $1bn of taxpayers money every year. I could think of 100 better uses.