A magnificent student protest, Passy?
Bovine excreta!
What is magnificent about hijacking a huge audience's news information source with prepared banners and reheased conformist chants?
The broadcast was being conducted on private corporate property with the right of any member of that audience to participate under simple rules of procedure.
This group of noisy children just didn't understand the process by which the right of free speech is enjoyed.
What they did was to alienate viewers who now will be more probably likely to approve whatever repressive action the federal government may take on university funding in the forthcoming budget.

Ha, ha, ha; passy takes the piss; look at the link, "More Brains not warplanes".

Nary a brain present in the left and the socialists on display last night on Jones' follies. They're against fascists; yeah well, let's see them go down to the nearest mosque and jump up and down there.

What a bunch of cowards, hypocrites and bludgers.

Really cohenhite, you should be more precise in your language. What was cowardly about the protest? What was hypocritical about it? And how can you call them bludgers without having a clue about their circumstances? There are valid criticisms that can be made bout the protest, no need to resort to inanity.

Well as someone who believes in the right to free speech, even were that offends, I thought that the students had a right to voice their opinion, but were not granted a right to hijack the debate!
Their message was heard loud and clear, and even aroused a little supportive hand clapping, long before it stopped!
Henry Lawson might have said, when he was being very polite, a trifle overdone!
However, given the length of the performance, it turned from a reasonable protest into an extremely rude and overlong interruption that simply denied any others their right to speak freely or even exercise the right of reply!
And in that context, killed any support previously engendered!
My kids went to uni, but had to drop out due to associated accommodation costs, which are always higher for kids from the country!
So its not the tuition fees per se that are the problem for many, just the additional accommodation costs, city central rents, electricity, and the occasional oddball you're forced to share with; most city kids simply don't have to pay, or endure; given they're still at home sponging off the oldies?
It also seriously shortened Q+A, leaving many with their right to also speak freely, gagged by the stunt; with the obdurate length, crowding out the message and any sympathy for their cause or point!?
Reasonable people would have made their point, then shut up, while they were still ahead!
Freedom of speech includes the right of reply, a right these "simple" tail wagging the dog folks, just denied everybody else!
They weren't on the street or in a public place, but rather, at a private meeting, where people are essentially invited!
And simply didn't have a right to hijack the program!
At the end of the day, they effectively denied other speakers the common courtesy of being able to reply, or just speak, given they completely drowned out the person who was then speaking, just as you might expect from I want, I want, me, me, spoiled brats with no manners!
Not at all impressed!
Rhrosty.

Rob Cover, those offended by Andrew Bolt could have easily been "heard" by suing him for defamation.

They didn't do that.

Jay Of Melbourne, yes all these help-the-vulnerable-minority laws and policies reek of White elitism.

Those poor wretches just can't get anywhere on their own, we need to give them a hand.

Ponder, yes people like this never think that the louder they yell, the more likely they will turn people off.
Not by what they say, but the *way* they say it.

Back to Activism For Beginners class, kids.

@Passy,

<<What a magnificent student protest...Get used to it... This is what democracy looks like>>

It was an example of Lefty bully boy/girl tactics.

I'll bet that if a mob of Nazis closed down the discussion in similar fashion Passy wouldnt be saying: "Get used to it... This is what democracy looks like"

Heaven help us if Passy & co every get power!