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The ABC and taxpayers'money.

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darcy
5 yrs ago

I really can't comprehend anyone complaining about the freeze (not a cut)on taxpayers'money for the ABC.

Especially when this claim is made: "" ABC news director Gaven Morris warned the national broadcaster was as lean as it could be.""

 

""THE ABC’s highest paid staff can expect to receive up to $4.5 million in taxpayer-funded bonuses this year.

The figure, revealed by a senior ABC executive, comes after it was revealed staff at the public broadcaster were paid $2.6 million in bonuses in 2016-17.

Appearing at a Senate estimates hearing, the ABC’s chief financial officer Louise Higgins said she would expect bonuses for executive and non-executive staff to total about $4.5 million this financial year, but cautioned this number could change."

 

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""According to its annual ­report, the ABC spent more than $10m on market research and promotion, and $1.54m on consultants in 2016-17.""

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""Consultancy firm Trevor-Roberts Associates was paid $64,950 to give career advice on redundancies, while McGees Property was paid $217,118 for property valuation and advice. A number of others were paid up to $178,750 for “strategic advice”.  """

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https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/broadcast/abc-paid-26m-in-bonuses-to-staff/news-story/cde575f6350179d79c11140d100b3760

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auldtic
5 yrs ago

The ABC is important for Austrailian democracy.  It ain't perfect but along with SBS is provides  reasonable news and public affairs programs.

The unremitting attacks on the ABC by certain powerful publications and politicians over the past 25 years is genuinely frightening for me.

Australian public broadcasting is a precious thing, we should be careful with it

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Adrianus
5 yrs ago

I'm sorry to hear that you are so frightened oldtic. 

Would it make you more, or less fearful, if the ABC stopped wasting taxpers' money?

BTW, I would be more afraid of driving down the street in that. Has it got brakes?

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darcy
5 yrs ago

Yet another serious complaint against the ABC....in this case 'four corners".

For an organisation that we looked to for truth and integrity for many years, they are losing credibility rapidly.

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""""Australia’s taxation commissioner Chris Jordan has launched a scathing attack on the public broadcaster for a Four Corners episode in April which quoted a company owner attacking the ATO as a “mongrel bunch of bastards”.

Mr Jordan told a Senate estimates hearing in Canberra the ATO believed the story was “contrary to the ABC code of practice and editorial policies” and fundamentally inaccurate. He also issued a strong denial that the ATO deliberately went out of its way to target small businesses.

Mr Jordan argued the Four Corners program failed to meet the basic standards of independence, integrity, accuracy, impartiality and fair and honest dealings.

“I mean, seriously, how appropriate is it to have the title of the Four Corners program ‘A Mongrel Bunch of Bastards’?” Mr Jordan asked. “It is highly offensive and inaccurate”.

“Just think of this for a moment. How would staff of the ABC feel if News Limited splashed across its front pages the ABC was simply a ‘mongrel bunch of bastards’ or that they said the whole of Fairfax is nothing but a ‘mongrel bunch of bastards

 

“I am sure the indignation would be palpable. So why did the ABC think it was OK to call the staff of the ATO a mongrel bunch of bastards?” """"

I genuinely used to love the ABC, but somehow they have slowly but surely set themselves up as untouchable.

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