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I think Paul Barry, Virginia Trioli, Fran Kelly and Leigh Sales would love to move to Albury-Wodonga or Toowoomba!

There, they could mix freely with everyday Australians, and become even better national broadcasters (on the taxpayers dollar)!

Also the property rental and Council rates would be much cheaper in these regional locations, saving a lot of money for the ABC..and hence taxpayers
 
You wouldn't save any money. You still have to relay the signal to Sydney to get to the satellites.

Anyway I have it on good authority that everyday Australians live in Sydney and Melbourne too
 
ABC most reliable and trusted news source in Australia.

"Majority (68%) of respondents think the ABC is more important in an age of social media and fake news, including 64% of LNP and 61% of One Nation voters;"

https://www.tai.org.au/content/abc-still-australia-s-most-trusted-news-source


"“Australians told us that their trust of the ABC is driven by its lack of bias and impartiality, quality journalism and ethics. While their distrust of Facebook and social media is driven by fake news, manipulated truth, false statistics and fake audience measurement,” said Roy Morgan CEO Michele Levine."

https://www.yourlifechoices.com.au/news/most-trusted-media-outlet-revealed
 
SirRumpole said:
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David Speers is good except he interrupts too much in interviews.
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Does he interrupt, when people aren't following his directions, or when it really is required?
What really put me off interviewers was when they interrupt, to either break the persons concentration, or because they didn't want the person to finish what they were trying to explain.
In the end the interviewer may as well, just give the interviewee a pre written script to read out, because they certainly didn't want to hear what they had to say, even if the person was an expert in the subject.
That is the main reason, I don't watch any current affairs, or news programmes.
 
PZ99 said:
You wouldn't save any money. You still have to relay the signal to Sydney to get to the satellites.
Anyway I have it on good authority that everyday Australians live in Sydney and Melbourne too
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Power it up with the renewable energy, not a problem. Ultimo - everyday Australia is a stretch
 
There was some discussion recently on one of the other Forums as to whether Kevin Rudd's stimulus was the reason we did not fall into recession and many discussions in the past. I have heard economists debate the issue and it would appear even among them that it is inconclusive (though they tended to align along political lines).

Today on some ABC Radio National program it was declared as a given - no argument.

I'm paraphrasing, but the program opening went like: "Kevin Rudd's stimulus package prevented Australia going into recession back whenever. Today we are interviewing the architect of that policy ...."
 

How can you prove a negative ? No one can prove that had we not had that package we would not have gone into recession.

A lot of countries went into recession without such measures, the evidence is pretty strong that it did have the required effect.

I suppose that if the presenter added the words "in the opinion of a lot of economists..." then that would have been more appropriate.

It's a policy that is largely being echoed by the LNP today.
 
What I remember is that on the Monday I was going to withdraw all of my savings from the banks-but on the Sunday Rudd guaranteed savings up to 250k so my panic was not acted apon.That measure by Rudd seemed to calm affairs.
 
Irony if Rudds (Ken Henrys) stimulus didn't do anything why are the current clowns act doing a stimulus?

BTW mining today is far bigger than ever during the boom under Rudd so surely it will save us again?
 
IFocus said:
Irony if Rudds (Ken Henrys) stimulus didn't do anything why are the current clowns act doing a stimulus?

BTW mining today is far bigger than ever during the boom under Rudd so surely it will save us again?
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Nobody said it didn't do anything.
 

Yes. I agree. Those few words would have made all the difference in not seeming biased.
 
In my opinion Rudd stimulus made us far more vulnerable than we might have been.

In the broad scheme of things what did Rudd's stimulus actually do?

Apart from massively expanding government debt, it did nothing.... Well probably aristocrat and Philip Morris did ok out of it.

The overall economy is far more vulnerable, we p1ssed away our ability to be able to deal with this current crisis, which potentially is bigger by several degrees.

All to appeas a few publicly listed companies.

Socialist try to create a narrative that this is why capitalism doesn't work, in fact, this is not capitalism but rather corporatism. And there is a massive difference between the two.
 
wayneL said:
Apart from massively expanding government debt, it did nothing...
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A lot of economists disagree with you.
China helped certainly but so did the stimulus.

I take it you are arguing against Morrison's stimulus ?

As for debt, take a look at what it is now and what it was when Rudd left office.
 
My answers in blue

 

I think Howard and Costello were at the urinal first....and didn’t flush
 
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