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If only we had proper resource extraction taxes - then our governments would easily be able to afford the required wage increases.
But alas, allowing massive wealth concentration while our resources get stripped away is just too attractive once kickbacks and favours are taken into account.
From what my friends in ABC, MEAA and CPSU have told me, they can easily afford it. Their funds got restored under Labor as well.
You're absolutely right that Australia-extraction is an absolute shocker, although we can't pretend it's a good excuse for this problem.
Let's see the management fire up the AIs and see how they go lol
Mates and I are headed to one of their offices to cheer them on at the 11am walk-out tomorrow (I can take an early lunch break for it). I also heard there might be some action on Thursday, I'll try my best to get to that.
(If anyone else is able to support them in person, let me know and I'll get the details and forward them)
I just found the MEAA strike fund page, share it around and throw something in if you can: https://www.meaa.org/news/support-abc-staff-standing-up-for-quality-public-broadcasting/
are they going to ask me how I feel about that?
Why would they? Out of curiosity
Why would they, that's what a lot of journalism is like today. It's post modernism. No such thing as facts, it's all opinion and all opinions are equal.
but some opinions are more equal than others.
-napoleon
Because Nazis think they have the right to dictate what is news.
I want to read facts, all the facts, not selected facts. Everyone should have access to all the facts. That way they can make informed decisions.
asking people their feelings is not a news event, it's a human interest story ( and is important too of course, )
I don't care what a Nazi wants.
Everyone should have access to all the facts. That way they can make informed decisions.
I agree with the general sentiment, although on the other hand, when there are well-funded propaganda machines at play (including think tanks and corporate-owned publishers), it's possible to flood the zone with misleading facts.
A sad truth is that, due to shortcomings in our education system and the cultural domination of propagandists, there are millions of people who, given access to all the facts, don't have the tools to filter them and make an effective decision. Likewise, you can give me a heap of absolute raw facts about quantum physics or agricultural research or nutritional science or certain sports, and I probably won't have the experience or prerequisite knowledge to use any of it except the most basic parts. At some point, an expert needs to curate this for a general audience and give context. Until people are empowered to process facts effectively, most of us need them selected, and if we choose our news channels poorly, we're at the mercy of those selecting them.
You're trying to argue with a Nazi. It's not worth your time.
If it was a private conversation, I'd agree completely.
Since this is a public forum, and because of how this kind of forum works*, it's useful to refute these platitudes and flawed arguments because there are other people reading. The point isn't to change Seagoon's mind - I've seen their posts long enough to know they're unlikely to read anything in good faith, it wouldn't be worth our time at all.
* I say 'how this kind of forum works', because in some other situations, replying can give pointless attention or legitimacy to bullshit. But I don't think that's an issue here.
Kinda hard for them to yell 'scab' when their AI replacements aren't physically crossing a picket line.
Also, Oh, no! What will I do without the one-eyed regressive propaganda of David Speers and his ilk?
throw a sabot into the loom
with widespread news disruption
"news" - That does not mean what they think it means...
This is Australia not the USA's ABC, not sure if that makes a difference.
Ah, thanks... I know nothing of the Australia ABC...
It's ok but I'd regard it as center right after years of fuckery from the LNP. You just have to look at the Lattouf incident
and its coverage if our left party The Greens is appalling, while a lot of sucking up to the loony ONP
It's closest to the PBS in the US and the BBC in the UK I guess, and certainly not dissimilar to the BBC and their similar fawning obsequiesness to Reform.
To add onto what Hanrahan said, it's also one of our state-funded broadcasters (along with Special Broadcasting Service, which has a lot of non-English and international content like films and news) so it's a lot less commercialised. There are plenty of good shows started there and it's sometimes a lot closer to indie content.
It was one of the original commissioners of Bluey.
I highly recommend trying to find episodes of You Can't Ask That (even if you have to torrent it), and if you like mockumentaries like The Office, I recommend Utopia (not to be confused with other shows elsewhere called Utopia), many clips are on YouTube to sample.
The ABC in Australia was the original ABC before the Americans copied us. Kind of like the Office.
Er... The Office was from the UK. The Aus version is a spinoff of that, as are the French, Czech, Brazilian, American, Swedish, South African, [...] versions.
I meant that Americans think their copy is the original in both cases. I only really know the UK office. I forgot we even had an Aussie spin off tbh. It was in the news for one week and then forgotten about.
Yeah, like the rest of the spinoffs I've seen (very much US included to be clear here) it wasn't... very... good.
NBC regularly aired the entire UK series in the lulls between Office (American) episodes before they lost the rights. Maybe some people think that it was the OG now, but they were not subtle about it at the start (possibly because Gervais is an attention whore who craves credit). These days I can't honestly think of anyone I've encountered who cares about that show enough to still remember it, yet is somehow unaware of the UK version. Even the subreddit is explicit about it:
This subreddit is for fans of the US version of the TV show, The Office. The show ran from 2005-2013 but is still watched just as much today. Join us as we discuss the show!