Somewhere in the great unpublished collection of parental sayings and
wisdom there is a chapter that deals with dishonesty. Every parent
knows it. Every parent tries to instill its lessons in his or her young.
The
rules are like this. If you steal the last Tim Tam from the biscuit jar
I will be annoyed and rightly you will be punished. But if you lie and
say you did not take the Tim Tam and I find the evidence on your crumby
fingers, the crime of the lie well outdoes the original breach. Try and
cover it up and you might find yourself grounded for life. Lying and
failure to take responsibility for your actions are poor displays of
human ethics and thus can not go unpunished. This is what I think about
the ABC cuts. As a journalist and consumer of the ABC I am deeply
concerned and saddened by the ABC funding cuts. But what makes me mad as
hell are the lies and the cover-up. You can not stand up before the
Australian people the night before a general election and sat there will
be no cuts to the ABC and then do the exact opposite. This is the sort
of act that gives politicians a bad name. But to really lose respect
failing to acknowledge the cuts and insist on calling it an efficiency
dividend is holding the electorate in utter contempt and should be
treated accordingly. I don't think you've heard the end of it. Not by a
long shot.
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| My mate Donna signs the poster to government |
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| Terri Butler, my Federal MP, also joins the fight |
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