14 Jun 2012 1:58:09pm Sick and tired of hearing about "taxpayers dollars" There are many things I do not like taxpayers dollars being wasted on, (tax exemption status of religious institutions being the main one) but since when did I have any say. Leave the ABC alone. To take it away would leave a void in my life. According to you and Shebs I must be a" leftie," but for mine the ABC is the best. SkepticMatt: Das Boot: 14 Jun 2012 12:13:10pm It's not a complex issue. The ABC is a taxpayer funded Marketing Department for the Labor Party. The Labor Party is funded by the ACTU. The ACTU extorts money from the private sector. (The HSU allegedly steals money from its members). The Australian is a share holder funded 'entertainment business'. Part of what they do is hold the taxpayer funded ABC to account. Work through it. And try not taking yourself so seriously. Alpo: 14 Jun 2012 1:00:19pm Ha, ha... The Australian an "entertainment business"...? I don't think that for them the Gillard Government is a "joke" at all. They consider it as a danger (to their private interests) and therefore a pest to be eliminated with the most radical poison available... The ABC is the only balanced source of news and comments available in this country. That's probably the reason why extreme right-wingers really hate it... if it wasn't for the ABC, right-wing control of the media (and therefore the mind of the People) would be