Now in fairness Hairy please post the even larger salaries paid...

Now in fairness Hairy please post the even larger salaries paid to presenters of Commercial news shows like Sixty Minutes etc etc etc. Please post details of the Million dollar contracts of Alan Jones etc

You can't be serious. The above are commercial enterprises, who's staff are paid from profits made by the company. Alan Jones' million dollar salary costs the taxpayer nothing. Yours and my contribution to staff salaries is the price of a newspaper when we choose to buy it.

The ABC staff are paid for by the taxpayer, whether we look at it or not.

If you can't see the difference, then further argument is pointless.