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Their other posts in the index, biggest breakout first.
You ruined it. You ruined ABC. So now if you wanna take down ABC, if you wanna own ABC, you can buy it. You can buy ABC back from the taxpayers who have paid for ABC since its inception. ABC was started in 1932. The cost to the taxpayer due to inflation, due to production costs, has been just over a billion dollars as of the early 2010s. In the last five years, ABC has cost taxpayers about $1.2 billion every year. So we, we taxpayers have funded the ABC. We have given up $1.2 billion of our own taxes every single year. So if Mrs Gina Rinehart would like to take the ABC off air, if she'd like to own it, then she can pay what it cost to build. So the total sum for the past 94 years altogether, it comes to about, let's say, $40 billion, 94 years of taxes, which if I'm not mistaken, is the exact net worth of Gina Rinehart. So Mrs Rinehart, you can pay back that money to taxpayers, not to the government, you can refund the taxpayers who have spent years paying for this network. The ABC costs each and every Australian about $43 to $45 dollars per year. If you wanna calculate the last 94 years that Australians have had to pay, that's about $4,000 for each person. So you can pay each and every single Australian $4k to buy the ABC. You wanna own the ABC? You can pay me $4k, my children $4k, my parents $4k, my neighbours, every single person that I know in this country, each and every single Australian citizen $4k, and what you get is your own personal broadcaster.