My word it is amazing how many rednecks come out of the woodwork when they have a chance to attack .
If by non biased they are really seriously alluding to Jones and Bolt it shows how sad they are.
Good onyer ABC, your my ABC

Zaky Mallah showed himself up to be the little sh1t that he is, so what is the big deal. The minister said all that needed to be said. Why all the additional carry on is necessary, I do not know. What has interested me more than anything else is the procedure that QANDA use to elicit apparently spontaneous questions from the audience, although the extreme vitriol extended towards the ABC by some members of OLO worries me. Get a life people, the sky isn't about to fall in.
David

What is really scary for me, is that the very instant that the concept of free speech on our national, publicly-funded communicator makes a vaguely challenging appearance, we find the rabid fascist thought-police racing out of the woodwork and howling at the moon.

I'd rather see a misguided and noisy youth make a fool of himself on a serious and contentious topic, than witness the flag-draped monologue from our government's thought-police that is their inevitable knee-jerk reponse.

What, for heaven's sake, are you guys afraid of? Clearly, real life is far too complex for the mono-celled organism that constitutes the right-wing media. But people, try for once in your lives to think for yourself, and phrase your thoughts in terms other than slogans.

Strewth.

JKJ: Why should everyone else in the population be forced to pay for Labor and the Greens to have their own private toy and plaything?

JKJ: Those who deny a left-wing bias in the ABC have got their heads well and truly up their arse, however even if it's true, that's no reason why they should not fund it themselves.

Could not agree with you more.

VK3AUU: Zaky Mallah showed himself up to be the little sh1t that he is, so what is the big deal.

Actually, I’m glad Mallah outed himself on TV. He has shown Australia just what we are dealing with & what the future holds for Australians if the moslem problem isn’t dealt with, post haste. The New Security Laws are good start but still need to be tighter. Personally I support letting all those who wish to participate with ISIS go to Syria. Their leaving will make it that much safer for Australians. Of course they & their families must lose their Citizenship & never be allowed to return. Even those born that were born here.

VK3AUU: What has interested me more than anything else is the procedure that QANDA use to elicit apparently spontaneous questions from the audience.

There is no such thing as spontaneous questions from the Audience. Most of the Audience is invited if you put your name up as interested in attending. You are given a form to write your question on & this is vetted by the ABC. If you are chosen to ask a question you are given a card with your question on it. Otherwise keep your gob shut. The questions are also given to the Panel. This is to give the panel time to frame their replies. TV is all smoke & mirrors for the sake of making a good program.

I explained this procedure once before on another Forum & was howled down. Yesterdays (25/06/15) Courier Mail had an article on the procedure. I’ll take the howling back now, thank you.

I totally agree with Pericles on this one.

I watched "Q and A," on Monday evening and wasn't
too impressed with the young, misguided bloke.
Yes he did make a fool of himself and it should
have ended there but for the blabbering of the
Liberal Party MP who went out of his way to bait
the misguided and foolish young man.

Had the Liberal party MP not provoked the young man -
this show would not have received the unwarranted
publicity that it did. And the PM and his team's
added comments only made the situation worse and gave
this more importance than it warranted.

The fault lay with the adults here not the foolish,
misguided young man.

This argument will last as long we have the ABC. The people who believe that the ABC is shockingly and irredeemably biased to the Left, as I do, should stop watching for their own sanity, as I did. Forget reform. It's not going to happen.

Those people who believe that the ABC does not have a Left-wing bias are ignorant bigots, best left together grunting in their caves with a portrait of Tony Abbott and a handful of darts. They would understand that.

One of two things should be rooted out: the ABC or party politics. We would all be OK with one of them, but not both.