Danny Cullen
Club Legend
Then it's pointless.
Just address the reasons why the ABC shouldn't be in line for a cut. Besides the AbbottAbbottAbbott screeching.
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Then it's pointless.
Because the voters did not vote for it. They voted based on no cuts to ABC, SBS, pensions etc.Just address the reasons why the ABC shouldn't be in line for a cut. Besides the AbbottAbbottAbbott screeching.
Because the voters did not vote for it. They voted based on no cuts to ABC, SBS, pensions etc.
Labor at least had the Greens to contend with when they brought in a tax... which they said they'd do eventually anyway.
Pretty straightforward stuff.
It's actually not as bad as you think, since those regional conservative voters are not going to change their vote over this. Cutting the ABC appeals to urban conservative/libertarian voters who actually have another option for the first time ever. Farmers in Southern Cross aren't going to suddenly start voting for the Labor party because of a 5% cut to the ABC.
Because the voters did not vote for it. They voted based on no cuts to ABC, SBS, pensions etc.
The issue is very important. Hence the large amount of commentary.Are you implying the audience watching the obscure broadcast on SBS where Abbott made his infamous no cuts comment was so large and the issue so profound that it altered the voting intentions of Australia? People wouldn't have even known about it.
This is a new one.So the voters decided to vote for the Coalition based on a soundbite on the ABC and SBS the night before the election. Nothing to do with the shambles that the voting public really had in their sights. Sounds plausible.
Are you implying the audience watching the obscure broadcast on SBS where Abbott made his infamous no cuts comment was so large and the issue so profound that it altered the voting intentions of Australia? Honestly 99.9% of Australians wouldn't have known about it much less cared.
The issue is very important. Hence the large amount of commentary.
Absolutely. If tax is going to become voluntary, then we ought to know who is contributing and who is free riding. Can't have it both ways.So you actually want to continue on with the nanny state mentality by removing the last semblences of people's privacy.
You have zero rights to know what others earn.
It's an issue because Abbott said he wouldn't cut the ABC.5% off a $1.2b budget in this economic climate is a non issue.
Just address the reasons why the ABC shouldn't be in line for a cut. Besides the AbbottAbbottAbbott screeching.
This is a new one.
People didn't vote for the LNP, they voted against Labor. Therefore the LNP has no reason to honour a single promise made to the voting public?
A truly novel reading of the situation.
It is Rural services - such as the Bush Telegraph - that are most effected. So my points stands: in the Coalitions tatty little ideological war against the ABC, it will be its base that are most adversely effected. Whether this is enough to change the vote of rusted on country conservatives we will have to wait and see. They certainly will not give their vote to Labor. But the bush is tired enough of the Liberals taking it for granted that there is a real move toward voting centrist Indies in.
That's rubbish. There's no way in hell country conservatives will vote for anybody except the Nats or Liberals. The Liberals know that, and they don't really give a toss what country voters think because they don't need to.
And the ABC claiming that it's all everyone's most favourite programs that will face cuts is pure bullshit politics itself. Americans call it "Washington Monument Syndrome". I.E. Whenever someone proposes a tax or funding cut, opponents will claim they will have to close down extremely popular publicly funded programs (like the Washington monument). The prospect that spending could be cut in less popular programs is buried.
That sort of cynicism is exactly what the ABC was engaging in when it claimed that cuts would force it to get rid of extremely popular programs like Peppa Pig etc. That won't happen, of course. More likely they will just lay a few back office staff off and cut some of the more expensive sports coverage that nobody watches.
I think if you look at the Gillard government the balance was held by to independents in country seats. The bush is fed up with the liberals & the country party coping it up the arse.
Would that be the two who bailed out before the last election because they knew that they were going to get smashed in the election? Those two?
No way. Let's see your ABC bias. Put up or shut up.I could source all sorts of ABC bias. But there is no point. You would dismiss the source.
IPA stooge. LOL.
What was the result of that????I think if you look at the Gillard government the balance was held by to independents in country seats. The bush is fed up with the liberals & the country party coping it up the arse.
That's rubbish. There's no way in hell country conservatives will vote for anybody except the Nats or Liberals. The Liberals know that, and they don't really give a toss what country voters think because they don't need to.
What was the result of that????
No way. Let's see your ABC bias. Put up or shut up.
Yep you've completely avoided responding relevantly and directly.In hindsight a pour result for australia with her being removed, get tone call a DD and see the result, winner take all.
Mark Twain.Theres 122 pages of evidence you just choose to ignore it