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THE ABC IS BREAKING THE LAW — AND THUMBING ITS NOSE AT AUSTRALIANS By deliberately refusing to post on X — where the ABC has 2.6 million followers — and instead pumping out content on BlueSky (where it scrapes together a pathetic 1,000), the ABC is openly flouting its legal obligations under the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983. Section 6(1) of the Act demands the ABC provide “comprehensive broadcasting services.” Hiding from the platform where millions of Australians actually get their news, while posting on an obscure, far-left echo chamber with less than 1/100th of the reach, is not “comprehensive” — it is an arrogant, deliberate betrayal of their statutory duty. Worse still, Section 8(1) requires the Board to ensure the ABC performs its functions "efficiently" and delivers the "maximum benefit to the people of Australia" Creating social media content for either platform takes exactly the same time, effort, and taxpayer resources. Yet the ABC chooses to post it only on the tiny platform with a handful of followers while deliberately boycotting X. This is not mere inefficiency — it is wilful waste and a direct violation of the ABC’s legal obligations. The ABC has chosen to waste taxpayers’ money pandering to a tiny clique of left-wing activists on a failing platform. Even the eSafety Commissioner admitted BlueSky is so insignificant it didn’t warrant inclusion in the under-16 social media ban. Yet the ABC treats this irrelevant vanity project as more important than reaching its actual audience. This is not incompetence. This is ideological sabotage by a captured, contemptuous organisation that holds ordinary Australians in open disdain. The ABC Board and management don’t care about their legal obligations. They are actively thumbing their nose at Parliament, at taxpayers, and at the Australian public — giving us all the middle finger because they know the Albanese government will shield them from any consequences. If the ABC wants to operate like a propaganda outfit, then let it survive on subscribers alone — and post wherever its dwindling clique of followers wants. But while it takes a single cent of public money, it has a legal and moral duty to serve all Australians, not just its ideological masters. The rot inside the ABC has metastasised so deeply that reform is impossible. This latest violation of its legal obligations is just the latest in a long list. It’s well past it’s used by date, and it’s time for the ABC be defunded. No Australian taxpayer should be forced to subsidise this level of blatant malfeasance, bias, and contempt.