Greens respond to Peter Dutton refusing to rule out cuts to the ABC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens spokesperson for media and communications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAustralians love our ABC and won\u2019t stand for it to be victim to Peter Dutton\u2019s cut, cut, cut mentality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe cannot trust Peter Dutton\u2019s Liberal party to control the funding to the ABC. It has long been an ideological crusade of Dutton and the Liberals to attack the ABC\u2019s independence, cut its funding and launch culture war attacks on our national broadcaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDutton is playing political games and refusing to give the public the real details of his policies because he knows they would be incredibly unpopular. When the Liberals last cut the ABC budget under Abbott, there was a huge outcry from the Australian community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn a world where media is becoming increasingly fragmented and misinformation runs rife, it\u2019s more important than ever that we protect our national broadcaster. The Greens have a plan to fully fund our ABC, including returning money that was cut during Abbott and Morrison era. We must legislate ABC funding so it is not subject to the whims of the government of the day.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greens respond to Peter Dutton refusing to rule out cuts to the ABC. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens spokesperson for media and communications \u201cAustralians love our ABC and won\u2019t stand for it to be victim to Peter Dutton\u2019s cut, cut, cut mentality. \u201cWe cannot trust Peter Dutton\u2019s Liberal party to control the funding to the ABC. … Continue reading “You can’t trust Dutton with the ABC”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32170,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32169\/revisions\/32170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}