Tony Abbott has declared war on the ABC.

He's just annouced an "efficiency study" into the national broadcaster -- a prelude to big cuts to the ABC's budget. At the same time, the government is preparing to tear the $250 million international Australia Network contract from the ABC -- a gift that Rupert Murdoch has been demanding for years.

Tony Abbott promised on election night there would be "no cuts" to the ABC. We need to hold him to that promise. Public pressure has saved the ABC before -- we need to make sure public pressure saves it again.

Tell Tony Abbott now: leave our ABC alone. Stop your threats to cut the ABC's funding.

The Liberal Party is not even hiding its agenda to weaken the ABC to enrich its right-wing corporate media friends. They're testing the waters to see what they can get away with -- and that's why we need to speak up for the ABC now. If we don't, this might just be the first in a series of attacks on our ABC.

It's not the first time prominant Liberals have spoken out against the ABC. Liberal senator Cory Bernardi was one of the most upfront with his threats late last year, saying that our national broadcaster needs to have its funding cut and power limited to stop it hurting Fairfax Media and News Corp's bottom line. Worst, many of his Liberal party colleagues agree.

The SumOfUs.org community has stood up for independent national broadcasters before. In our biggest Canadian campaign ever, 75,000 SumOfUs.org supporters signed petitions and thousands more crowdfunded radio ads to protect the Canadian state broadcaster, CBC, from threats by the Canadian government. We need to act here in Australia -- the Liberal Party’s threats against the ABC can't be ignored. Let’s speak out now for independent, high-quality media free from political influence.