Government funding of television
Every year the ABC and its supporters complain about its lack of funding, which has declined in real terms about 30% in the last 15 years. Australians can only dream of the television delights - a real Electronic Program Guide on digital tv, for example - that we would receive if the ABC was funded as well as the BBC is.
My tax money spent on the ABC is equivalent to a Big Mac every month, or one DVD each year. Considering the amount of time spent watching television, it seems amazing that the money can stretch so far.