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If the ABC is so trustworthy, why isn’t anybody watching it?

25 May 2019

9:00 AM

25 May 2019

9:00 AM

Here’s a  question. Who said this recently, about the ABC: ‘The ABC is one of Australia’s most important institutions. Now, more than ever, Australians need an independent ABC – your trusted, valued and efficient national public broadcaster’?.

If you answered Bill Shorten’s ALP, congrats, comrade! The quote was part of the ALP policy of ‘protecting the ABC’ from supposedly ‘devastating’ cuts inflicted to their minuscule $1 billion budget by those capitalist alt-right haters, the evil LNP.

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