I suppose we suffer the ABC for the sake of our country cousins who commercials cannot afford to service. The joke is that most, if not all, country folk are conservatives, socially and politically; they ignore any left-wing nonsense in favour of weather, market reports, Country Hour' and specialist programs pertinent to country living. I am country born and bred, and it's a different world.

I too am country born and bred.

And I am long in the leg, but not thick in the head. :-)

I love and support the ABC!

Yes perhaps the ABC is dead they just haven't realized it yet.

Dear Shadow Minister,

My god. When on earth are you going to think for yourself? You make yourself scarce for a few weeks while the leadership sh*tshow went on an now you are back carrying on like nothing ever happened.

Mate, we have just learned how a foreign media mogul was a huge part of the deposing of a sitting prime minister and yet you are trying to call out the ABC?

How on earth do you even look at yourself in the mirror?

You are an Australian I assume, if so why don't you pull your bloody socks up and start calling out the real threats to our democracy. If you don't you really can be seen as having very little interest in caring for this country.

This is way beyond just supporting the party line now. Time to step up.

The choice is there for people to watch the ABC
or not. It just so happen that so many Australians agree
with the ABC and do enjoy watching it. So, it definitely
is not dead as those who don't agree with it claim.
Those that do watch it are legion. And, they are many.
The ABC is here to stay.

Cinderella has gone to the ball.
Conservative voters are going to have to settle for one
of her ugly sisters (Murdoch's NewsCorp).

It's people like the fox in the henhouse who are given a huge leg-up by tax payers to play out their wank for the ABC.

The viewing figures for the five major metro areas of Australia are abismally small for the ABC by comparison to the combined commercial networks at ninety percent.
The tax payer forks out a billion dollars a year for ten percent of the television viewing audience.
Why are ABC viewing wonks so important?