This is how many ABC journalists you can buy for one Kyle Sandilands.
Friday 22 November 2013 7:02am
Have your ever been watching TV or listening to the radio and found yourself wondering “how much do you reckon she/he gets paid?” Well, it’s your lucky day because the salaries of the ABC’s most high profile radio and TV presenters have been leaked.
Leigh Sales, Tony Jones, Richard Glover, Annabel Crabb, Jon Faine, Juanita Philips… the top eight presenters earning in excess of $250,000 have been named and it’s been an incredibly awkward 24hrs for them as details of their salary packages have been broadcast across the media.
That sound you can hear is every journalist in Australia falling over themselves to compare the leaked numbers with their own pay packets. Ouch.
The ABC's latest effort in relation to Julia Gillard's comments on Spying.That's digraceful.
The left really has become a foul and cancerous malady in western society, a hideous counterfeit of what it claims to represent, apt to spew forth mendacious misrepresentations and gross perversions of the truth in an attempt to further its poisonous, misanthropic agenda.
'Promise not to do it again'
ABC NEWS
Tony Abbott should promise not to tap Indonesian president's phone in future, Julia Gillard says
Former Labor prime minister Julia Gillard says Tony Abbott should promise not to tap the phone of the Indonesian president in the future.
100% agree. Edward Snowden is not a whistleblower, as the ABC like to refer to him. He's a criminal, and they are abetting his actions. The damage done will be difficult to repair.It is fairly simple.
Snowden is a traitor to the West.
The ABC has decided to adopt a traitorous attitude to Australia, due to a pervasive culture of political commitment to the Left.
The kindest things one could say about the ABC is that they are stupid, not seeing the wood for the trees and that it has been a programmed attack on the Abbott Government .
At it's very worst, the consequences of the ABC's actions may lead to injury or death to members of our armed forces, diplomats or citizens.
The ABC should be held to account.
gg
That's digraceful.
The left really has become a foul and cancerous malady in western society, a hideous counterfeit of what it claims to represent, apt to spew forth mendacious misrepresentations and gross perversions of the truth in an attempt to further its poisonous, misanthropic agenda.
Prime example is basilios appalling and petulant little rant above and the copious cesspool of verbal diarrhea from Whiskers, inter alia.
It is fairly simple.
Snowden is a traitor to the West.
The ABC has decided to adopt a traitorous attitude to Australia, due to a pervasive culture of political commitment to the Left.
The kindest things one could say about the ABC is that they are stupid, not seeing the wood for the trees and that it has been a programmed attack on the Abbott Government .
At it's very worst, the consequences of the ABC's actions may lead to injury or death to members of our armed forces, diplomats or citizens.
The ABC should be held to account.
gg
Are you actually suggesting the ABC and the Guardian have no responsibility in this matter?Objective comments...........ABC reports the news ......its a commie extreme left wing anti Abbott plot, disgusting subversive propaganda.
Are you actually suggesting the ABC and the Guardian have no responsibility in this matter?
Are you actually suggesting they shouldn't report the news based on a political outcome?
The ABC revealed that the Australian Signals Directorate had tapped into the mobile phone communications of Indonesia’s President, his wife, who is an influential political actor, and members of cabinet, among others.
The ABC also published six “top secret” directorate slides, “top secret” being the most sensitive defence classification, that disclosed the names of 10 different ASD intelligence targets inside the Indonesian government, the types of mobile handsets they used, that a voice conversation between Indonesia’s President and a Thai caller had been intercepted, and that ASD was able to map the president’s calls to various persons over a 15-day period.
Under the Officials Secrets section 79 of the Crimes Act a person can be imprisoned for up to seven years for communicating or retaining secret government information, particularly if it prejudices the Commonwealth’s security or defence, when they know it has been illegally supplied to them, when they have no right to retain it, and/or if they fail to take reasonable care to ensure that it is not publicly shared.
The Financial Review has previously published details of classified intelligence, although only once a public interest test has been satisfied and it has been determined that these revelations do not compromise the security of the country. The ABC failed to meet these conditions.
I suppose it's futile to expect you to actually treat the question seriously.Are you actually suggesting they shouldn't report the news based on a political outcome?
Hah, that's so funny.Origin of the ABC's salary details leak identified.
I suppose it's futile to expect you to actually treat the question seriously.
The material was stolen.
The ABC should have considered all the obvious fall out before succumbing to sensationalism and making it public.
Simply being in possession of someone's private information does not confer the right to make it public.
Say I came into possession of some damaging information about you, (and obviously I'm not suggesting that that would happen) does that give me the right to post it here for all your co-members to see and to hugely embarrass you? No, of course not.
The specifics of whose phone was tapped and when may be new to Indonesia but the fact that Australia monitored its close friend’s activities will not be a surprise. Governments have been watching each other since before the telegraph. And they will continue to do so, because intelligence-gathering is fundamental to the maintenance of the modern state.
But is it legal for nations to spy on each other? And what protections are in place to ensure citizens, non-government organisations and corporations aren’t caught up in this web?
We should be wary of outrage over the reported activity of the Australian Signals Directorate and other agencies. Their collection of information about Indonesia’s leaders is legal. It may be diplomatically counter-productive or ethically problematical but it is lawful.
Christopher Joye in the Financial Review:
Under the Officials Secrets section 79 of the Crimes Act a person can be imprisoned for up to seven years for communicating or retaining secret government information, particularly if it prejudices the Commonwealth’s security or defence, when they know it has been illegally supplied to them, when they have no right to retain it, and/or if they fail to take reasonable care to ensure that it is not publicly shared.
https://theconversation.com/i-spy-you-spy-we-all-spy-but-is-it-legal-20540
Then, from the Financial Review:
Any government would be very remiss in not giving national security a high priority. However in your case, along with the Greens, The ABC, and The Guardian and fuelled by Edward Snowden and Vladimir Putin, anything that can damage our security is fair game as long as it is directed at wrecking Tony Abbott's boats policies.But it appears as if in 2013 a government just has to mouth the word national Security and all of this swept away.
Tony Abbott mishandling Indonesia spying fallout, says Plibersek
Labor deputy Tanya Plibersek has criticised the Prime Minister's handling of relations with Indonesia after the fallout from revelations of Australian spying.
Speaking to the ABC's Insiders program
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