According to ABC Chairnan Justin Milne our ABC will, (quote) "promote debate and accountability through fine investigative journalism" (end quite).
Let's test that claim.

Will our ABC report reason for fish now being so highly priced it is no longer affordable as it used to be for poorer people?
Flathead used to be common daily food for people not able to afford meat, but recently even flathead fillets have been costing over $50 for one kg.

Why does Australia now need to import over 70 percent of its annual fish supply, including farmed catfish?
What's happened to waters around this big island called Australia?

Why is there no news of the combined state of the marine environment? Why are numerous marine incidents that indicate big problems in the ocean not being reported? Why is there no debate about need for solutions, especially concerning incidents such as mass starvation of mutton birds along coast stretching from Queensland to South Australia and around Tasmania?

Why is the ocean no longer capable of sustaining whales that are being found worlwide in unprecedented strandings and deaths? Why is starvation of whales not being investigated and reported? Google; whales starving.

Do Australians and seafood dependent island people have a right to know about sustainability of ocean food supply and waterway health?

Why is algae becoming more common and a nuisance? Is anybody concerned some species of cyanobacteria algae can cause asthma-like attacks on contact with human skin?

There are serious issues that need debate and investigation.

Is unprecedented sewage and land use nutrient over-load pollution proliferating over abundance of algae, and are some species of algae smothering and killing coral on Australia's Great Barrier Reef?

http://www.smh.com.au/national/commercial-interests-out-to-get-the-abc-20180530-p4zicj.html

Someone up above just delivered this news into my smartphone :
http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180529/international-coral-study-links-pollution-to-decline-in-coral-health

The latest idea for the ABC is 'give it away' to anyone who wants it - staff, 'friends of', etc. Any takers would have to seek ways to fund the thing just like the commercial networks. The spendthrift Turnbull government obviously has enough of other peoples' money to write off the billions of dollars pumped into employing dead-heads and bigots, so why not.

for the abc to take up a cause it must fit the marxist narrative or the gw lie.

Dear JF Aus,

Lets indeed test your claim about the ABC and investigative
journalism.

The ABC is not perfect. It doesn't claim to be. However,
its "4 Corners" program is Australia's leading
investigative journalism program which airs each Monday
at 8.30pm on the ABC TV.

It has been part of the National Story since 1961 exposing
scandals, triggering inquiries, firing debate, and confronting
taboos.

Just to list a few of its programs -
There have been quite a few on the marine state of Australia.

From - "Battle for the Reef," "Weather Alert," to "Big Fish,"
"Adani and our reef," "Water use in Australia's largest
river basin," "China Rising," "Doctors for the Environment,"
and the list goes on.

You're entitled to hold your opinion about the ABC - but
the facts contradict what you are claiming they don't do.

Hi Foxy,

Here are some facts.
I knew Bob Raymond who founded Four Corners and I still know his son. Bob Snr was a friend of Vincent Serventy who briefed me about Crown Of Thorns larvae thriving on unprecedented algae proliferated by human waste.

In the early eighties I warned on media of serious snd general world fish depletion occurring. Four Corners had me come from Port Phillip Bay (Vic) to Eden (NSW) where I was interviewed in a program they called "Learn to Eat Shark".
But most sharks have now also been eaten and I think others would be dead due to starvation, that they are not immune to.

The program "Big Fish" was about salmon farmers objecting to other salmon farmers coming to overload one bay with nutrient waste. Nothing was said about the whole world ocean or GBR coral, the latter that anyway is sometimes downstream from Tasmanian point sources of nutrient dumping.

I am an elder in my country and I have long term underwater observation experience. I and a few others saw it the way it was . underwater and we can see what it's like now. And I can swear on oath the ABC is not reporting the critically serious devastated state of the marine environment generally, and that is a fact.

Another fact is, Foxy, the other programs you refer to do not report the state of the marine environment overall.
There were two UN linked SOMER studies that I think shocked a few people before the planned ongoing proposed series of studies suddenly stopped.
Consequently ocean ecosystem damage is continuing due to lack of reported investigation and debate and solutions, and that is fact.

Too bad about the approximate two billion dollars leaving Australia annually to import fish. Some of that could have been funding the ABC. And if we had wild quality finned to export the revenue could be funding schools and hospitals.
But it seems the ABC could not care less.