“Some sort of government income” is pretty vague from an ABC that gets over a billion dollars a year; not from the government - the government has no money - but from taxpayers, most of whom make no use of the ABC's political activism and boosting the extreme Left and their liars, starting with Albanese.

The government obviously has to use on essential services what they rip off taxpayers, but that shouldn't include the ABC, NDIS, subsidies for private businesses, particularly climate crooks and their wind and solar toys, nor a non-productive, bloated bunch of public servants.

“Australia's institutional drift isn't best understood as incompetence or corruption in the traditional sense”. Is that so? We have to be careful who we call ‘corrupt’, but the mind boggling incompetence of the public service can be shouted from the rooftops - which it often is.

“Government workers rarely vote to shrink their department budgets”. That’s right: and just like Indian immigrants, the politicians will continue to increase their numbers.