News24 host Peta Credlin asks why taxpayers are spending $1 billion a year to promote the ABC’s “rubbish”. “The media world has changed dramatically from what it was when the ABC was created in 1932,” Ms Credlin said. “The ABC is no longer the fair and balanced broadcaster it was. “People have a lot more media options today than a century ago, so why then are taxpayers spending $1 billion a year to promote this rubbish?”