Farmers and agricultural industry are big losers from ABC shutdown of the seventy years of short wave broadcasting.

Australian presence in the remote Asia Pacific region is now greatly reduced. Australia is not there anymore. Rice from Australia is being replaced with rice from Asian countries and Australia is doing nothing in public relations except cutting Australia off further.

The Australian ABC has shot itself in the foot if electricity cost is anything to do with reason for shutting down the short wave.

It has been the ABC that has pushed and pushed with the emissions trading hoax that has caused electricity cost to unnecessarily increase.

This is not just about NT people losing remote communication on the road and while camping. How an campers carry a $600 satellite dish to receive broadcast.

This is about loss of communication for all remote and travelling Australians and others throughout the Asia Pacific region.

What does Prime Minister Turnbull say face to camera, about this loss and whether or not the switch off justified?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-20/abc-defends-shortwave-axe-radio-nt-emergency/8134690