ABC HAS EVEN LIBS DANCING TO THEIR TUNE

THE ABC is now so big and lethal that political parties effectively bribe its news division before an election, hoping to keep the state broadcaster sweet.

In 2013, for instance, the Gillard Government announced just before the election that it would give the ABC $10 million above its budgeted funding.

This year, the ABC’s love does not come so cheap. Labor leader Bill Shorten has promised the ABC, which already gets $1 billion a year, another $84 million over three years.

Even the Morrison Government paid off the ABC in Tuesday’s Budget. Under pressure and just a month before the election, it agreed to give an extra $43.7 million over three years, again to the ABC news and current affairs division.

Have you seen clearer evidence that the ABC is too big and biased for a healthy democracy? Just about every Liberal MP will privately admit the ABC is overwhelmingly anti-Liberal.

Yesterday morning, Prime Minister Scott Morrison repeatedly accused ABC host Jon Faine, a vehement Leftist, of even “lying” about the government’s funding of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

The fledgling NDIS has already expanded to a $17.5 billion a year behemoth, yet Faine falsely claimed the Government was starving it of cash so it could post a Budget surplus.

Really, if the Liberals found a cure for cancer the ABC would accuse it of putting doctors out of work. Also yesterday, Sabra Lane, host of the ABC’s flagship AM, accused Treasurer Josh Frydenberg of offering tax cuts that were too small before accusing Frydenberg of offering tax cuts that were too big: “That is an awful lot of money being doled out very quickly.”

The truth is this biased ABC must be cut drastically to size, to allow more freedom for debate. In fact, the Liberals have just proved how dangerously big the ABC is.

Think they wanted to hand over that cash to their enemies?