safety advice, which a private press has no explicit charter to do. They do what is profitable, that may or may not include providing SES warnings. The ABC, provides these messages by the fact of legislation. There is more to the ABC, than your private.org. Subscription only, who are you working for? Only rationale for such a comment is profit?! Bb: 14 Jun 2012 9:24:44pm Complete tosh about 'leftist'. Perhaps you are a satirist, but somehow I don't think so. The ABC online and elsewhere are mild rightist, with the attendant bias to the Coalition, including to the odious Tony Abbott. Calling it is 'leftist' is plainly silly, or the perspective of a far-righest, both of which announce to the same thing. For example, the elected government is always framed on the back foot ("Gillard defends" etc), but the Coalition is given the front foot eg, their claims or a quote as headlines. Even when they are hypocritical as today's on the government being 'ethically challenged', as if dirt is not collected by the Coalition. LibH: 15 Jun 2012 8:41:49am I agree.....the ABC are so far into their own leftist agenda that they cannot be honest about it......all tax payers views and political persuasions should be treated equally, because as we know the ABC is a government funded body. not a minorities soap box. Edge: John: 14 Jun 2012 1:02:10pm and ABC misunderstands the Australian..The thing is somebody needs to push Labour and Social issues. Can't leave it to the