Anne Aly (Cowan, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Hello, boys and girls, what window should we look through today? Should we look through the round window? What about the square window? I know, let's look through the murky window of the Liberal Party, where the ABC is privatised. Do you know what 'privatisation' means? It means that the things that the people own, like the public broadcaster, are sold off by the government to greedy private interests. It means no Bananas in Pyjamas, no Big Ted, no Little Ted, no Jemima, no Playschool and the programs that my children and millions of Australian children have grown up with for over 50 years. It means no public broadcaster delivering sound news and information and Australian content.

Australia wouldn't be the same without our ABC. It's not a world I can imagine. But the Liberal Party can. They've overseen close to $300 million in cuts and a loss of 800 jobs. Have you ever cut $282 million from important public services, boys and girls? No? Me neither. And they've done all this despite their election commitment of no cuts to the ABC. Have you ever broken a promise, boys and girls? My message to the Prime Minister and the LNP is this: it's our ABC. It belongs to all Australians. Hands off!