What's the reason I'm keeping this blog

Yes, you read correctly: "keeping this blog" is not some mangled Subcontinental attempt at English but the correct form as a blog is a "web log". So one would keep a log and hence a blog.

Anyway the reason I'm keeping this blog is thus:

We know that the Government cannot create wealth or indeed anything on its own. Indeed we, the Australian people, give authority (authority from the people is what democracy is) for the Government to act as a distributor of some of our money.

The Government thus uses economies of scale by making more effective use of our combined money than we would as individuals. This is a theory of efficiency as to why we need Government.

However, when the Government (be it a monarchy, democracy or republic) imposes onerous taxes, draconian laws and dispenses of these funds in a profligate manner, it then abuses that authority.

We, as Australians, have a duty to hold BOTH the Government and its delegated bodies and institutions to account because it is WE who spend the money to finance their existence.

Thus, when a public organisation like the ABC arrogantly argues that they are above being accountable to the Australian people because they are "independent", they are wrong.

If the ABC is so independent, let it come off the taxpayer teat and survive as a truly independent organisation.

In fact this is what I am arguing for. In 2010, where the internet gives us media diversity of which we could but dream in the 1980s, the ABC becomes an arcane irrelevancy.

We have no need of the ABC. If I want to find out what is going on in the world I just Google the news, search various sources WITHOUT the need of a censorious gatekeeper. Why do we have to spend billions of dollars on a hefty behemoth that pupports to be the gatekeeper of news, culture, sport, politics and music in Australia?

And to my final, and main argument for ridding ourselves of a publicly-funded ABC is political bias. The ABC likes to be disingenous and say "yeah but we give equal time to Dick Bloggs from ALP and John Smith from the Libs". This in NO way precludes political bias. When I turn on the ABC2 Breakfast show and a person from The Age is interviewed, followed by a "Refugee Advocate" then followed by a spokeswoman from the Coalition of Lesbian Disabled Aborigines, it is clear to see that the ABC has a cultural bias and my taxes should not have to pay for such imbalance. The ABC, whether it is the Hindmarsh Island Bridge, Greenpeace activists or the Climate Change hysteria, give unequal time and favourable coverage to those causes that are broadly-speaking on the political "left".

Kerry O'Brien is a tough and skilled interviewer. Yeah right! When he interviews "Conservative" politicians he is rude, aggressive and unfair. When he interviews a "left-leaning" politician he is fair, gentlemanly and well-mannered- always willing to hear what he or she has to say!

I won't go on but you get the picture. The aim of this blog is to be a responsible citizen and (with your help) hold the ABC to account!