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Headline should be, "Government forces ABC to cut spending, QandA first on the chipping block"
But why have the Government cut ABC funding?
Seems like it clears the airwaves for right wing propagandists to fill.
The current Labor government hasn't, it actually proposed a funding increase late last year as well as plans to increase the funding terms to 5 years (to reduce the frequency of cuts). The cuts referred to in the piece by The Guardian are cuts to particular areas as the ABC shuffles its limited budget around, not new government cuts.
Yes, that was the point of all those Coalition cuts. Reduce competition, reduce media scrutiny, reduce the level of accurate information available to the public.