If we wanted to rid our tv screens of publicly-funded material could we please start with those Work Choices (I mean Work "Reform") ads.

ABC annual funding: around $800 million
Government Work Choices advertising: around $100 million
Watching Work Choices crash and burn anyway: priceless

Sorry, couldn't resist. I don't like people bashing my Triple J.

Kipp “Col Rouge. You are obviously a "Big Brother" fan, and into shock jock radio.

Bet you hated the BBC when you lived there!”

I love the “instant character analysis on a postage stamp” comments. Kipp, your debating capacity is more than adequately represented by the geographic proportions of the aforementioned postage stamp

btw I have never watched an entire Big Brother Programme event and usually flip past it in moments of couch-potatoing.

I tend to tune more into ABC FM, preferring to catch a bit of the big Mozza (rather than big brother) and am content to let Darren Hinch supply my shock-jock needs.

As for BBC – they are the toad from which ABC was spawned.

Of course, I thought the pond should have been DDT'd and the lefties eradicated from public life, I am, after all, a mere moderate in these things but one with a preference for hygiene and disease control.

Bobbicee “Sorry but I see Felicity as a deluded radical right propaganda mouthpiece who is parroting what she was told to say and who sadly, appears to be against free speech and democracy, demanding that the ABC sprouts only radical right wing propaganda.”

Ah Bobbicee, we can see which side of the debate you are support. I would like you to write more about the “deluded racial propaganda” and Felicity’s “anti-free speech and anti-democracy position” and I will be happy to shred your ramblings (and what passes for character) in an instance.

You referred to parroting, from where I sit you sound like just another turkey, going around in circles, achieving nothing as you furiously flap that single left wing.

No question the ABC is impartial why can't the other channels have a cultural programme like the Insiders that is being hosted by Barry Cassidy. We have independant journalist on the left and Liberal Conservative supporters on the right. There is debate and that is healthy. On the Channels that are being controlled by their sponsors we have blatant attack upon Political Parties that are not part of the Coalition. We live in a Capitalist Society and it is expected that in a Society that thrives on supply and demand you are going to get an impartial point of view that is why the ABC must stay independant. and impartial. We cannot afford to have it corrupted it is Government controlled and we have a Conservative Government and most Quangos have Chief Executive Officers that have been Politically Appointed for example Barbara Bennett with Work Choice.

Dear Felicity
Who do you suggest should buy the ABC ?
Yes John Howard should sell it to Glenn Milne, Andrew Boulton, Piers Ackerman, Allan Jones and Gerrrard Henderson then we would have true impartiality.