In recent decades “our” ABC has become a pampered left-wing mega-phone.

And it is NOT ad-free.

It runs continual free-to-air ads for itself and all its leftie, one-world, anti-industry, first-nation causes.

Ratings show that taxpayers don’t want to support it.

It is a billion-dollar business living on welfare. It should be shut it down, sold or donated to those who love it.

The ABC promos are taking up more time than commercial TV ads !

Yeah, yeah. We should all realise by now that no government is going to cut loose the ABC, and there is nothing we can do about it. Two thirds of Australians don't watch it or listen to it, so the only complainants must still be in the audience. Why? Why do they punish themselves?

Dear Vic,

You opine: "In recent decades “our” ABC has become a pampered left-wing mega-phone."

No it demonstrably has not. If anything under successive waves of right to hard right board members it has been pretty well muzzled government lapdog. In any case repeated inquiries have shown little to no bias.

Have you ever thought you might have been sipping the right wing koolaid and shifted a few paces over yourself?

" ... right to hard right board members"; "pretty well muzzled government lapdog"; "repeated inquiries have shown little to no bias".

The bullshite some people are able to convince themselves of is amazing. Not much chance of fooling anyone else, though

The ABC is demonstrably biased against the Catholic Church or any christian church for that matter - but its totally ok with the religion o peace aka Islam. Its biased against any form of mining or business in general. Although as the Emma Alberici episode showed it really doesn't understand either and has no interest in such understanding. And of course its biased against any political movement including political parties that are remotely right of centre.

But most importantly it is easily demonstrated that the ABC staffing leans heavily left and is way out of kilter with the views of the population it supposedly serves. That's not to say its out of kilter with its viewership/readership which also leans heavily left. Indeed the funding for the ABC is really just a massive subsidy from the average Australian to the left leaning minority.

In these days of virtually unlimited bandwidth, the ABC ought to be broken up into separate entities - kids TV; Sport; Rural Services; British comedy; and finally News and Current affairs. Then when the later is shown to be mere plaything of the Green-Left it can be disbanded or sold - if another silly enough to buy it could be found.