do it better? Does anyone really think buying childcare delivers better care than doing it ourselves as parents? The private sector is better than the government sector at making profits - that's about it. Ian: 14 Jun 2012 3:03:35pm Jerrah, I prefer to think of it as dog-whistling, or in this particular case sheep-herding perhaps. I do think, as it stands, it would be better for the ABC to be privitised. The only thing that might change my mind on that would be a genuinely independant complaints system, rather than the farce in-place now. Such a system would also need to have the power to enforce balance reflecting the views of the tax payers who fund it, rather than the tokenism mascarading as balance at present. Finally, the group-think at the ABC, much as Mark Scott denies it (he would, wouldn't he) rather undermines the "independance" you claim for it. Personally I think independant journalism should be encouraged. I just want the option not to pay for it if I choose. John51: 14 Jun 2012 10:23:48am Ian, I would have thought by now with the dominance of the big four banks that you would have realised that selling off the Commonwealth Bank was a huge mistake. Selling off the ABC would make that mistake insignificant in comparison. You obviously did not read the article because or listen to the speech or else you would have understood the role of the ABC is to provide "a public good" for the people