The federal government will end a highly contentious decision to freeze millions of dollars of ABC funding as it pours billions of dollars into the national broadcaster over the next three years.....
From July, the ABC will receive almost $3.3 billion over three years, while SBS will receive more than $950 million.
As part of that funding, the government has decided to end its controversial decision to impose an indexation freeze on the ABC's annual funding in 2018 which ultimately meant the broadcaster's funding did not keep pace with inflation.
Davidson and Berg wrote the book (literally) on creative ways to have the government stop funding the ABC, written (I always half suspected) in response to being dropped from the invitation list to The Drum (or any other show, ever.)
They might argue they had some success - didn't some Liberal body vote in favour of ABC privatisation? Oh yeah, here's Sinclair bleating about it a year ago in AFR:
This, of course, represents a governance problem within the Liberal party itself. In 2018 the Liberal Federal Council voted to privatise the ABC – a policy position the government has chosen to ignore. If elected politicians are able to ignore their constituents, it should be no surprise that apparently independent government agencies do so too. It is not just the ABC that is out of touch.
Hehe. So they're persuasive to some dedicated crank culture war conservatives in the party - the same group who will continue to deny AGW and whine endlessly about clean energy - but the saner heads can the writing on the wall.
Oddly, I've snuck over to Sinclair's Twitter feed, and can't see any tweet about it. He's just resigned to be forever promoting bad libertarian policies that his own side of politics wisely ignore, I guess. Meanwhile, Chris Berg's rather dull twitter feed doesn't seem to mention the news either.
Come on, boys. Own your failure.
1 comment:
You cannot privatise it as it is not commercial. If it was there would be a loud cry from private interests to do just that.
the question is are both these gentleman that stupide they do not realise this or are they simp[ly gobbelsising
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