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Q&A what is it with this Indian episode ?
The only one I can think of is that one who cleared out the pensioners ATM account when they left their card in the machine.
They have a photo of him and his car that was parked in a disabled spot with a kid in the back.
 
ABC web site is an exercise in anti Abbott stories, not sure where this will end but something should be done.
 
MrBurns said:
Q&A what is it with this Indian episode ?
The only one I can think of is that one who cleared out the pensioners ATM account when they left their card in the machine.
They have a photo of him and his car that was parked in a disabled spot with a kid in the back.
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Now they're dancing,some of them in dresses are actually women.
 
Quote Originally Posted by MrBurns View Post
ABC web site is an exercise in anti Abbott stories, not sure where this will end but something should be done.
drsmith said:
The ABC is poking the bear that is currently interested elsewhere but we can see how it's going to end.
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So the ABC is Biased but you still feel fit to link abc news in other threads to suit your agenda?
 
I`m saying that if you are using abc news links for your own arguments you cant find it that biased.
I dont think I really want to know what your agenda is.
 
Caveman said:
I dont think I really want to know what your agenda is.
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You seem to be suggesting you already do. ;)

Just because a source of news and commentary is biased, it doesn't mean that news and commentary itself is completely without value.

The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
 
Over in the 'hate' media, is Bolt morphing into Keating, the classical music references are becoming a constant.

If he starts getting interested in antique clocks, becomed alarmed.

But I'm not a critic of the ABC Keating series, as some have been. It's must see television.
 
"7.30" this evening will have a segment on Clive Palmer. The suggestion made by Leigh Sales when announcing this at the conclusion of last night's program was that some truths about Mr Palmer will be revealed.

Perhaps the ABC has belatedly decided to ask some real questions instead of being amused by him.
 
Caveman said:
So you find the ABC Biased but good value as well,this thread is just a storm in a tea cup.
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Consider the following link from the ABC in relation to the number of boat arrivals under the Coalition government,

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-25/log-of-boat-arrivals-and-other-asylum-seeker-incidents/5014496

It's updated weekly with the information from Operation Sovereign Borders and it obviously offers a useful up to date summary on the number of boats and arrivals.

Was there a similar link on the ABC's website on boat arrivals that was updated as regularly during the term of the previous government ?
 
noco said:
This is how our tax payers funds are feeding the pockets of left wing socialist presenters of the ABC and Tony Jones is the highest paid.

Are they really worth all that much?
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No idea, since the content of your link is unavailable to non-subscribers.
 
Maybe if all our tv stations were subscription only, the ABC might be the wealthiest of the lot if the presented perception of the amount of hate mail from people who think they are biased, but just can't resist watching, can't bring themselves to 'ignore' any and every little hint of perceived bias, is any indication.

The ABC must be the most watched station by far! :p:
 
The ABC has now openly declared war on the Abbott government. The release of the stolen Snowden state secrets was deliberately coordinated with The Guardian, to derail Abbotts hated program to stop the boats. The ABC was alarmed that Abbott was getting too cosy with Yudhoyono. Their efforts to sabotage Aust/Indo relations may very well succeed and take ages to mend.

The irony of it all is that the taxpayer is picking up the bill to fund the ABC's campaign.

WHY did The Guardian sit on its bombshell allegations about Australia spying on Indonesia for five months?

The timing of its joint story with the ABC on Monday could not be more damaging. It came at a crucial point in Australian-Indonesian relations, when the new Abbott government had achieved fresh co-operation on people smuggling, and was beginning to "stop the boats".

And yet the left-leaning British newspaper has had the information about Australia's surveillance activity at least since June. That was when former CIA computer specialist Edward Snowden gave all the top-secret documents he stole from the US National Security Agency to selected journalists before fleeing to Moscow, the New York Times said.

Asked about the curious timing of the story, Guardian Australia editor Katharine Viner said yesterday that she only "got the material in the last few days". The newspaper's "US team" had been "carefully going through thousands of Snowden documents. (It's a very) lengthy process."

Speaking at a media forum at the Opera House last week, Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian's international editor, divulged just how strategic the newspaper's approach has been to Snowden's material.

"We've published 17 documents (since June). So we haven't been rushing this stuff out. We've been thinking about it."

The Australian spy story, published on Monday by The Guardian and the ABC, was based on a Snowden leak of a PowerPoint presentation from Australia's Defence Signals Directorate. It revealed covert surveillance on 10 high-ranking Indonesians over 15 days in August 2009, when Kevin Rudd was prime minister.

The document was marked "Top Secret".
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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...secrets-and-lies/story-fni0cwl5-1226763735908
 
Calliope said:
The ABC has now openly declared war on the Abbott government. The release of the stolen Snowden state secrets was deliberately coordinated with The Guardian, to derail Abbotts hated program to stop the boats. The ABC was alarmed that Abbott was getting too cosy with Yudhoyono. Their efforts to sabotage Aust/Indo relations may very well succeed and take ages to mend.

The irony of it all is that the taxpayer is picking up the bill to fund the ABC's campaign.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...secrets-and-lies/story-fni0cwl5-1226763735908
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Tony Abbott in Parliament today,

2:05pm: The first question time question is from Bill Shorten to the PM.

Please advise what progress has been made to restore the relationship with Indonesia since your parliamentary statement yesterday?

"This is a serious matter," Tony Abbott begins.

"I deeply and sincerely regret the embarrassment that media reports have caused to SBY."

He is "perhaps one of the very best friends that Australia has anywhere in the world".

"I do understand how personally hurtful these allegations, these reports have been for him and his family."

But the PM says that he will not "overreact".
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I wonder how quick it will be before our national broadcaster takes note.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...ics-live-november-20-2013-20131120-2xu38.html

My bolds.
 
Julia said:
No idea, since the content of your link is unavailable to non-subscribers.
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Julia, there were hundreds of comments which I had to delete due to the fact that it would have taken up too much space.

THE ABC is paying eight broadcasters more than $250,000 a year, with Q&A and Lateline host Tony Jones leading the pack on an annual salary of more than $350,000.
The Australian can reveal details of the pay packets of individual employees at the national broadcaster after obtaining internal payroll information for the past five years.

The ABC has been attempting to block release of pay information relating to its top-rating presenters for the past three years, fighting a Freedom of Information request lodged in 2010 by the Herald and Weekly Times, which is owned by News Corp Australia, publisher of The Australian.

The ABC received $1.03 billion of taxpayer funds last financial year, of which $465 million was spent on wages, superannuation and other entitlements.

The salary documents obtained by The Australian contain a breakdown of $453m spent in 2011-12 on 5511 employees. Jones is the public broadcaster's highest-paid presenter, earning $355,789 in basic pay last year, but he is yet to hit the pay level reached by former long-serving 7.30 Report host Kerry O'Brien, who earned $365,246 in 2009-10, according to the documents.

Top ABC salaries part 1

Top ABC salaries part 2

Only the organisation's managing director, Mark Scott, chief operating officer David Pendleton and then director of television Kim Dalton are listed as earning more than Jones.

Scott's basic pay is recorded in the documents at $678,940, but with bonuses it is listed in the ABC's latest annual report as $773,787. Pendleton is listed as earning $362,838, while Dalton, who was replaced by Richard Finlayson as director of television in April, was earning $359,238.



The 7.30 presenter Leigh Sales - credited for reinvigorating the flagship current affairs program following O'Brien's departure - is ranked eight journalists behind Jones, as the ABC's 18th-highest earner on $280,400 a year.

The documents show co-hosts on some programs are paid vastly different amounts. ABCTV Breakfast hosts Virginia Trioli earns $235,664 - about $84,000 more than co-host Michael Rowland on $151,006.

NSW weeknight news anchor Juanita Phillips is the broadcaster's second highest earning presenter on $316,454. Long-serving ABC journalist and presenter of Stateline in NSW, Quentin Dempster, is listed with an annual total salary of $291,505.

Former Media Watch presenter Jonathon Holmes, who had expressed opposition to the release of ABC salary information, was earning $187,380 as host of the weekly 15-minute program before he was replaced by Paul Barry in July. The program's executive producer, Lin Buckfield, is on $146,000.

The corporation's top-earning radio presenters are Sydney Drive's Richard Glover and Melbourne Mornings' Jon Faine, earning $290,000 and $285,249 respectively.

Former political editor Christopher Uhlmann is reported as earning $255,400 last year and Radio National's Breakfast host Fran Kelly is on $255,000. ABC's online political editor Annabel Crabb is on $217,426.

The documents reveal an erratic approach to the pay rates of the broadcaster's highest profile presenters, and is certain to lead to wage demands from employees as staff seek to redress perceived inequities. It may also spark wage claims at rival public broadcaster SBS as that station's presenters compare pay packets.

Today's revelation of the broadcaster's salary payments will also stoke rivalries across state borders, with equivalent positions in each state varying wildly. ABC News weeknight anchors in Adelaide and Perth earn less than a third of their Sydney counterparts. Adelaide-based anchor Jessica Harmsen is on $104,007 and Perth-based James McHale is on $102,166.

The data also reveals the ABC's large wage spend in NSW compared with the rest of the country. More than $214m of the $453m national wage bill is spent at Ultimo in inner Sydney.

The ABC has argued against releasing the salary information on the grounds that it is contrary to public interest and is connected to confidential programming material.

Mr Scott has previously argued that because the public broadcaster pays less than the commercial networks, revealing the salaries of its employees would make it more difficult to retain quality staff.

Former ABC managing director David Hill has said the broadcaster should adhere to the principle of transparency.


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Thank you, noco. Much appreciate your trouble in posting the detail.

I'm not familiar with some of the personnel, but imo Leigh Sales is worth a lot more than Tony Jones just for starters. She at least has some familiarity with the concept of objectivity in her interviewing.
 
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