• null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Nah that isn’t new. That’s been going on since the dawn of democracy.

    Conservative governments always de-fund everything. Lador hasn’t had much of a run in the last 30 years.

    I’d like to see the ABC and CSIRO get guaranteed direct funding through something similar to medicare with the medicare levy. Medicare Levy is 2% of earnings. An infinitessimal portion of that would turn the tap back on at the ABC and CSIRO.

    I think we levied facebook et al and squandered that revenue on poor struggling murdock reporting.

    Sooner or later we will have a Trump style government that will accelerate the trend of hollowing out these amazing institutions.

    • TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone
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      2 days ago

      Not much point in advancing science when we all know we’re cooked. Sooner or later a handful of people will own everything and control it all from inside their fortresses while the rest of us deal with collapsed and poisoned ecosystems, so why wait?