Yesterday, the Abbott Governments axe fell hard upon the ABC and SBS. Funding cuts of $254 million over five years will mean Lateline and Australian Story will be gutted, five Radio National shows will go, more than 400 people – 10% of the staff – could lose their jobs, and more than 100 staff lost from the ABC News division.1 Before the election, there was nothing more offensive to Tony Abbott than a broken promise. Now, after insisting the night before we went to the ballot box wed see no cuts to the ABC or SBS2, this announcement flies in the face of his supposed moral outrage, and stands as a betrayal of our beloved public broadcaster from a government with an axe to grind. The extent of the cuts were shocking, but for GetUp members like you, sadly, they dont come as a surprise. Weve been campaigning against these cuts all year, and in the last fortnight alone weve responded in force – calling Cabinet Ministers and MPs, and rallying in cities and towns across the country, alongside our friends at Community and Public Sector Union, Friends of the ABC, and the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance. As a movement, weve created a media buzz and backlash estimated to have been seen by more than 8 million Australians. GetUp members have been fighting to protect the ABC at every turn for eight years, and were not stopping any time soon. Weve got a plan to make sure Tony Abbott – as well as every voter, every MP in a marginal electorate – finds his broken promise on ABC cuts impossible to forget. https://youtube/watch?v=MrMKJ91HRxk#t=15
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:29:32 +0000
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