ABC and SBS cuts are not cuts, and five other great political evasions

By Rose Powell
Updated November 21 2014 - 6:08pm, first published 3:00pm
Efficiency measures: Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Efficiency measures: Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Efficiency dividends: Senator Mathias Cormann. Photo: Andrew Meares
Efficiency dividends: Senator Mathias Cormann. Photo: Andrew Meares
Efficiency measures: Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Efficiency measures: Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Coups: Labor prime ministers Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd. Photo: Andrew Meares
Coups: Labor prime ministers Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd. Photo: Andrew Meares
Efficiency measures: Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Efficiency measures: Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Efficiency measures: Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Efficiency measures: Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

One might assume the freshly announced multimillion-dollar budget reductions to our government-funded national broadcasters would render Prime Minister Tony Abbott's pre-election promise of "no cuts to the ABC or SBS" utterly broken. But apparently not.

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