Another little something from the man the chronic Left loves to hate:

"The media sector in Australia and around the world is undergoing significant disruption and national, taxpayer-funded broadcasting cannot be insulated from these changes"  (Released 14/8/17).

Unlike the Coalition and Labor – who are scared witless of Left public broadcasters, ABC and SBS – Australian Conservatives have a policy on the taxpayer-funded sheltered workshop for under-achieving reporters.

The full policy can be found on the Australian Conservatives' website – along will all policies.

Struth, what a crappy policy!

Ruining and shrinking our national broadcasters and using the savings to shrink the economy.

You are going to have to explain that one, Aidan. How can you make such a wild statement based on the information given?

Dear Aiden,

It does look like a pretty toxic policy, including this section which shows just how much our Cory is prepared to bend over to get Murdoch's imprimatur. He really did get a few good lessons from Abbott didn't he.

“Australian Conservatives will limit the provision of online services by the consolidated broadcaster to on-demand viewing of the local news, entertainment and current affairs programs produced by the broadcaster “

Well there goes any chance of catching up with shows like Grand Designs or even ones like Utopia which is produced by the Working Dog team.

I reckon this effort will be reworked pretty quickly. Amateurish at best, doing the bidding of News Corp at its worse.

ttbn,

From http://www.conservatives.org.au/our_policies#national_broadcasting_abc_and_sbs
"Reduced scope and presence
Australian Conservatives will limit the consolidated broadcaster to two TV stations – covering news, current affairs, drama and entertainment.
We will limit the consolidated broadcaster to two radio stations available nationally with local and national content.
Further, Australian Conservatives will limit the provision of online services by the consolidated broadcaster to on-demand viewing of the local news, entertainment and current affairs programs produced by the broadcaster."

Do you doubt this equates to shrinking and ruining it?

It then goes on to say:
"Budget context
These changes will save taxpayers over $1 billion per annum which will be used to repay national debt."
Repaying national debt is contractionary fiscal policy. It shrinks the economy - that's what contractionary means.

If we were in a boom, contractionary fiscal policy would be a good thing as it would help counteract the effects of a highly expansionary private sector. But we're not in a boom, and taking more money out of the economy means there's less opportunity for the private sector to make money, so they employ fewer people. And the drop in tax revenue means the government is likely to end up worse off financially.

Aidan,

“Do you doubt this equates to shrinking and ruining it?”

Of course it is shrinking it. It needs shrinking. You disagree to this only because you have a track record of wanting governments and their organisations to be prodigal with other peoples' (taxpayers) money. You think it is okay for long-suffering taxpayers (only 25% of whom use the ABC) to fork out for the biased, leftist rot you like to hear, while the self-funding commercial networks cannot afford to compete.

Then you repeat your nonsense about debt being good!

Your final paragraph has nothing to do with communication policy.