Ha Foxy, while they spend $200k plus Fringe Benefits tax on an employee's
personal legal expenses ? Come on !
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This whole Net zero business has got out of hand.
Only 50 countries going, and expert opinion is that we cannot change
our energy system that dramatically in 30 years.
While I am not an expert in that area I have had enough industrial
experience to understand what the experts are saying to us who at
least have some relevant knowledge.
Most politicians and public servants and very large numbers of the
public have no such experience and are so handicapped.
When the blackouts start the party in government will cop it !

I suspect that the PM is off to Glasgow knowing full well it will be
the 26th failing conference. He is taking as someone said a magic pudding.
All he is worried about is the next election. Far enough, I think
that he believes the Labour/Greens will legislate it all and that
none of the decisions will will be able to be implemented.
It is now generally accepted, but not always acknowledged that the
wind/solar/batteries has no possibility of success.

Brainwashed schoolkids grow up and vote and that is where we are now.
Ultimately it will sink in to the general public that changes are
necessary but will need one or two hundred years to implement.

Bazz,

It's 30 years away, the current twits, Liberal and Labor will be gone, and they won't be around to pay for their stupidity. It's all a joke; a sick one but still a joke.

tbbn,
I don't know the current cost but in 2019 the annual cost of commercial media advertising in Australia was about $1.7billion, all of which was funded by consumers.

I don't agree with many of the Government departments that spend or waste my tax dollars but the ABC consistently ranks as the most trustworthy news source. Ten minutes of listening to the ignorant foam-flecked rantings of Sky after Dark presenters is all I can stand before reaching for the remote or just laughing at their blatant bias.

You always have the choice of turning off the ABC and continue to get off over the rantings of commercial media or whatever else aligns with your personal prejudices and hatreds (of which you seem to have in abundance).

Foxy,
The Liberal Party is the political wing of the IPA. It used to be an off-shoot of the party but now it calls the shots.

their blatant bias.
rache,
You wouldn't know what bias was unless you listened/watched ABC !

Hi rache,

I support the ABC because it devotes air time to issues
that are largely ignored by the media and in doing so it
paints a picture of an Australia that is at odds with
some people's beliefs about this country. In their minds
this is bias, but is it bias or a reflection of the modern
reality of Australia, warts and all, often at odds with
entertainment and profitability.

Then there's the politicians and other community and
business leaders (like Gina Rinehart, et al) who want to
control messages about themselves and their doings.
They're the ones who believe that who pays the piper
picks the tunes.

We also have those in the community who feel that the media
should provide "entertainment" hence the popularity of
"reality" programs.

And of course we have the hostility of the Murdoch media
to public service broadcasting.

Finally there are folks whose political beliefs are so far
to the right that just about ALL of Australia (and most of the
world is to the left) and any media that reflects this
reality in their view is necessarily left-wing and biased.

"Money makes the world go around," this old adage is so
true in politics - so it should be no surprise that the IPA
with their donations to the Liberal Party call ths shots.
But that's anothe4r reason for supporting our national
broadcaster and fight for our freedoms to see the strings
and who's pulling them.

rache,

Thanks for actually addressing the question I asked. That rarely happens around here, with people not responding to questions at all, or not answering, but continuing to run off at the mouth, trying to humiliate the questioner to hide their ignorance.

You don’t say where you get your figure from, but I'm sure you didn't just make it up. I would just like to get back to discretionary spending as opposed to no choice ABC.

I have never seen anything I regularly buy advertised. I have never bought anything based on advertising. Sure, I'm not a big spender, but we all have the power to decide how we will spend our money, unless it's the billion dollars annually that politicians have decided to give the ABC.

I would also point out that it's not small businesses supplying the goods we need who advertise, but big businesses pushing stuff that we do not really need who can afford to advertise, which is pretty expensive.

Big Businesses have huge advertising budgets, yes. They might factor them into their selling prices, yes. But, does that have anything to do with taxpayers bankrolling what is a one-sided propaganda machine that most Australians do not avail themselves of. No.

I used to watch the ABC. But I was 21 years old before TV came to the country town where I lived, and there was only one commercial station, which was crap. I'm far from what is called "progressive", but I have moved with the times, can use technology, and no longer need an anachronism like taxpayer funded media. I have a choice. So do you, but I simply do not understand why you choose to believe that the ABC "consistently ranks as the most trustworthy" when it has been proved that it does not.

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