And all in less than three years
Well Grasshopper, ⌠we once were governed by this egalitarian philosophy we termed âThe Fair Goâ âŚ
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And today leather jacket guy signed off on preferencing One Nation over the ALP. The NBN is dead, thereâs no meaningful emission reductions measures in place, etc etc etc. Turnbull defeated Abbott by becoming Abbott.
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âtrickle down effectâ has always been the biggest load of bullshit ever. Canât believe people actually fall for this â â â â (not having a go at you). Itâs been debunked by basically every economist worth their salt over the past couple of decades and we have around 100 years of empirical evidence to back it up.
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It works exactly as intended
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Didnât spend all the cash on tax cuts for the already privileged.
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EFA
Haha I think weâre in agreement!
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ok last bit BS maybe.
still think adding a subscription to the abc is a fine idea if it makes it even better. eg getting BBC drama first run, bid for aussie sports, more quality aussie shows, better radio and digital.
would want current funding locked in though for some subsidies.
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Oh so do you mean subscription on top of current funding? Premium content and whatnot. I could get behind that being an alternative to selling it off.
-edit- Iâd be happy paying Spotify/Netflix rates for on-demand access to Triple Jâs library of live gig recordings alone.
yes. ie. lock it in at a reasonable/sustainable rate of GDP for funding then make it subscription based.
subsidise subscriptions for pensioners/students/unemployed.
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And then the very first conservative government to come along would defund it on the grounds that it could exist in some form on subscriptions.
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I donât understand the initial complaint.
ABC online and newsmsn or whatever are not even remotely the same market.
Just because they both call it ânewsâ doesnât make them the same thing.
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And then because the ABC would be competing for the same dollars said government would send a rescue package to the current commercial broadcasters. A much more efficient use of public funds.
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No, if it made any profit, they would privatise it.
Then pump more money into it anyway.
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Why canât the ABC just drop unbiased and do 3 nights left, 3 nights right and 1 night whatever?
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if it could survive on itâs own with just public subscriptions then that would be fantastic.
the government having not bankrolled it could not lean on it.
Because the three nights right wouldnât be right enough and would be mistaken for left. The one night of âwhateverâ would also be taken to be left biased which would be evidence that itâs a left biased propaganda outlet. The three nights of left would be evidence that Joseph Stalin is indeed hiding under all of our beds at night.
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I watch ABC news shows almost exclusively. Iâm no left-winger by any stretch of the imagination but I find the ABC is unbiased. Their people do have a remarkable distaste for the Duttons and Abbotts of this world, as any decent person should.
But theyâre not left-wingers eitherâŚnot the ones I watch, anyway. I donât know what Tom Ballard and Tonightly are like, and I never watch Q&A.