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The ABC takes money from people who work hard for a living and hands $500,000 every year to Juanita Phillips, who reads news on television. Something to think about the next time the ABC runs an item mentioning the ever-widening gap between rich and poor; the state-funded ABC is actively causing it.
Labor leader Kim Beazley recently opposed tax reforms that would, he said, deliver unfair benefits to the rich. Phillips is already massively richer than most Australians, and is growing richer by the year via taxes drained from their earnings. Hilariously, given Beazley’s claimed interest in “fairness”, his party last year wanted to give the ABC even more of your money.
The average Australian wage is $47,000. These people lose a portion of their income every week to someone earning ten times that amount. Fair, Kim?
UPDATE. Unstable Richard Neville ponders the national broadcaster in an interview with Michael Duffy:
Try and imagine Australia without the ABC, and just even in doing that I broke out in a cold sweat and imagined myself clinging to the lonely rock of SBS … actually SBS news basically … and fighting off the waves of Big Brother and Footy Shows. I really think that if there was no ABC then the creatures from the black lagoon would have finally won and Australia would be a kind of cultural desert, which doesn’t mean to say I like everything about it; I think there is a kind of plague of trivia on a lot of the radio stations right now. The future is coming so fast now that I think the ABC could be connecting with the future a bit more and looking at kind of cutting-edge ideas, but having said that, it’s such an easy thing to criticise … there’s this great big blancmange but in the blancmange there are nuggets and there is something for everybody and there is a kind of national conversation that it does inspire. So I think it’s cool to criticise it, cool to get angry, and actually, for you and for other people, criticising it has been a good career move. And on top of that, I actually think it’s like the new Callan Park. I was reading Malcolm’s article … the hotbed of counselling that goes on here means that all these apparently incredibly sick and depressed timid people would have nowhere else to go. So it plays a social role as well as a broadcasting role.
Posted by Tim B. on 05/22/2005 at 11:06 AMCommenting is not available in this weblog entry.
BruceW — They meant to win Wimbledon! and the nuggets are the ringleaders…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 22 at 03:03 PM • permalink
The average Australian wage is $47,000. These people lose a portion of their income every week to someone earning ten times that amount. Fair, Kim?
Earning? Doesn’t the use of that word lend an air of legitimacy to someone feeding from the public trough?
:^P
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 05 22 at 03:09 PM • permalink
I watched the movie “The Assassination of Richard Nixon” last night and heartily recommend it.
It’s based on a true story about the type of viewer that Neville is describing here as being dependent on the Aussie ABC for “therapy”.
Sean Penn plays a pathetic man named Sam Bicke who’s life has spiraled out of control out of a twisted sense of idealism and he focuses in on killing President Nixon by attempting to hijack a plane and crash it into the White House back in 1974.
I’m sure the filmmakers thought they were portraying him sympathetically but he just comes across as the type of moonbat we see too often today.
Do yourselves a favor and see it.
WTF?? The commercials can pay these idiots whatever they like, but I’d say shareholders should be asking why their coughing 1M plus so some pillock can read off an autocue with a minimum number of errors- after all, Max Headroom proved a CGI could do a better job ten years ago- I couldn’t give a fuck who reads the news, it could be some spotty work experience unit and I wouldn’t notice; as to a public broadcaster coughing a half mill to a clothes horse who can read with maybe 70% accuracy, previous calls for the ABC to be razed, the earth salted etc don’t go far enough. This silly bint gets paid more than the PM to read off an autocue, and the ABC is crying poor?
Australian public sector pay scale:
Premier of New South Wales: $207,227.
Chief Justice of the High Court: $336,450.
Secretary of the Department of the Treasury: $355,730.
Prime Minister of Australia: $384,372.
Some random chick who reads an autocue for half an hour each night: $500,000+Your taxes at work.
Chief Justice of the High Court: $336,450.
Considering how much the barristers in front of the Chief Justice are dragging in, he’s pretty cheap.
My suggestion is that lawyers pay a proportion of their gross fees to the courts, as a levy for appearing there. That would take considerable burden off the average punter.
Posted by pog-ma-thon on 2005 05 22 at 10:22 PM • permalink
Any idea how much SBS is paying this looney with a poodle on her head?
Neville’s web site
The CIA killed Nick Berg
http://www.richardneville.com/Journal/2004/journal310504.html
And this piece from “the Bard”. Is there no limit to this man’s arrogance.
“Creatures from the Black Lagoon”
Ah those good old days of Anti Vietnam activism in the Marxist London coffee houses like the Troubadour in Old Brompton rd, where one could wear workman’s dungarees and pose as leftist poets and pull those hippy chicks!
http://www.richardneville.com/Satire/Content_RHindex/Creatures from Black BU .htmWho said “anyone who is Not a leftist at twenty has no heart and anyone who still is at forty has no Brain”?
More nuggets from the blancmange that meant to win Wimbledon.
And the other thing is that we are in a stage in the world now that’s a lot different to the 30s, 40s and 50s where the problems are immense …now, there are huge issues that are more threatening than ever before…
...and the wall between left and right is now pretty artificial.
the ABC could… [enter] a world where ideas and discussion are globalised, and borderless, and thus we can end this toxic culture of people adopting positions that come out of the Cold War still.
Gee Tim, I followed the link and the first thing that struck my eye was a story about a 65 year old has-been reject newsreader getting paid not $500,000 but a whole million for doing what Juanita admirably does. Sounds like she’s a bargain.
Or do you expect people in one sphere of the economy to work for peanuts for doing the same job as others paid handsomely?
Marsupial Boy- sure do, if they’re public employees. If they don’t like the pay scales, they can bugger off to the private sector where their pay packets aren’t provided by taxpayers. Why does the ABC need a half-million dollar newsreader when their news is watched by 26 people, none of whom pay for it? BTW- the standard of literacy among ABC presenters is diabolical; most wouldn’t get a job doing loop announcements for pluto pups and waffles at the speedway if they didn’t have a crappy humanities degree and the correct politics that guarantees a snout in the trough at the Anarcho-Bolshevik Collective. No public employee is worth 500K a year, let alone a bloody talking head.
Mind you though, Mike Carlton thinks she’s worth three times what she’s on; we’d better pony up, or she’ll run off to Channel 10- devastating!
So this “Juanita Philips” person is a wealthy running pig dog capitalist? We know what happens to her type when the revolution comes dont we?
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 05 23 at 04:21 AM • permalink
Try and imagine Australia without the ABC.
To those of us who believe it has changed for the worse, it has gone!Australia would be a kind of cultural desert ...
Timeworn lament of the arty farty lefty fame seeker.The future is coming so fast now ...
I am getting older... there’s this great big blancmange ...
It’s Big, White, and Mangy.... but in the blancmange there are nuggets and there is something for everybody.
Particularly for dopes like Neville who get regular appearance fees from Richard Glover.... and there is a kind of national conversation that it does inspire ...That’s the inmates talking among themselves.
.. criticising it has been a good career move ...
Criticizing. It worked for me too!The hotbed of counselling that goes on here means that all these apparently incredibly sick and depressed timid people would have nowhere else to go.
He Got that right!So it plays a social role as well as a broadcasting role ...
As a result of combining the two, any show which includes opinion strays too often into moonbat territory, due to the preponderance of incredibly sick and depressed timid people who have nowhere else to go.
the hotbed of counselling that goes on here means that all these apparently incredibly sick and depressed timid people would have nowhere else to go. So it plays a social role as well as a broadcasting role.
Wouldn’t it then be cheaper to just convert the ABC into a full-time mental asylum and dispose of all the expensive cameras and other electronics?
No, they need the cameras for validation. Just don’t give them a feed outside the building…
And the BBC news division is on strike. Over 6,000 Britons have already forgotten why they like George Galloway…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 23 at 10:28 PM • permalink
”Michael Duffy: It must be one of the most complex and sprawling cultural organisations in the world, mustn’t it, in terms of its diversity of audiences and functions?” He’s kidding, right? The ABC one of the most complex and sprawling cultural organization IN THE WORLD? Micheal Duffy needs to get out more. What a bombastic and asinine statement.
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Tim, you don’t understand, they need that extra money to help them deal with the stress of just caring so much. As the last election showed, you just can’t be that nuanced and sensitive on a lousy 47 grand a year…
To papraphrase Lincoln — “Who ever saw a poor progressive?”