This will magically remove all the left-wing bias which so many perceive in our national broadcaster. As usual, the whole thing is just another rural delusion.

Firstly, who will pay for it? Not the government, so it will have to be the ABC itself. The only way to fund it will be by closing down the ABC's costly, inefficient activities in the country.

The uproar over this will make the fuss about closing just four WIN newsrooms look like a Country Women's Association morning tea.

Secondly, the good Senator forgets what happened when the NSW Nationals moved the State Agriculture Department to Orange.

Those in the department, and their children who quickly grew up to voting age, all had city attitudes to everything.

Orange instantly went to a federal independent, and now has done so in the state Parliament too.

Just why Coalitionites want to flood country areas (or even conservative outer suburbs) with dangerous left-wingers from the inner cities is a mystery to me.