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

Even his defending counsel wouldn't try that one on. He'd get laughed out of court. LOL

The ABC is NOT, as its arrogant Managing Director imagines, solely accountable to itself.

Foxy <young misguided bloke>

Defending an organisation that wants to blow the legs and arms
off Australians with bomb attacks in cafes.

Oh yes, this guy is just so sweet and misguided.
He follows the male muslim code of Isis really well by
suggesting that any women who dare to question him should be gang-banged on a desk. His reference to two female journalists who dared to question a superior male like him.

Maybe we should have invited Hitler over during world war 2,
to go on the ABC and tell us why the war we were fighting with
Germany was our fault.

Honestly, I have enjoyed Q&A and admired the robust debates on that show, but in the last few weeks they have just lost the
plot. I come from a labour working class background, and
voted labour all my life, but the stupidity of the left wing
groups and the Labour Party in the last couple of years
has seriously got me shaking my head in disbelief.

I know they said that this bloke has written blogs saying,"don't join Isis," but he says something different in his tweets.
I think the blogs are just a smoke screen to throw Australian security off his trail. As they arrested him once and he only
escaped a long prison sentence because the laws didn't cover these
kind of offences at the time. Of course he is against any laws that do.

The “concept of free speech” did not make an appearance, Pericles, the disingenuous Mark Scott, inappropriately attempted to label the result of his bias and incompetence “freedom of speech”. A clumsy attempt, which fooled no one with any sense, and nothing to do with freedom of speech.
It is ludicrous for someone with the herd mentality of a lefty like yourself, Pericles,to ask people to think for themselves. You have no comprehension of the meaning of the term, much less the ability to identify the mindless lefty slogans in your composition.

Robert le Page, if your next post is as indecipherable as the above you will qualify for my list of posters I do not attempt to read, due to the garbled state of their efforts.

I think the opening comments by John Howard in response to a question from David Hicks a previous Q&A episode bear some relevance to this topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQO3pW0DLmI

I did not see the episode in question but I'm not convinced views I may not like should be shut down regardless of the history of the individual concerned. Based on what I've heard of the specific comments they appeared to be in part a legitimate part of the discussion.

I tend to the view that for the most part the ABC is biased towards the left of politics, I'm not a fan of their political advocacy being publicly funded but I also see some value in having those viewpoints in the public space and being debated.

R0bert

It is somewhat annoying to see all that taxpayer money being paid to thousands of the self satisfied lefties playing games as employees of the ABC.

However it is now not very important, apart from that waste of our hard earned funds on these clowns, their effect is now totally nil. They have gone so far to the radical ratbag left, no sensible people watch or listen to them today.

I used to enjoy ABC documentaries, & years ago was aware of a little subtle twisting of the facts. It was probably effective in selling some of their lefty leanings, but no more.

The clowns we are paying a fortune, are so dumb that they have shot themselves in the foot. They have gone so far left that it is totally obvious to any intelligent person, & merely antagonises any but the radical. They have totally lost the ear & the respect of the middle ground people, & are turning more to the right every day with their hyperbole.

They are still ridiculously expensive, but no longer an effective tool of the left.

As for the ABC being biased in favour of the left, my experience does not support that concept. I was in the audience when the discussion was education and the panel was the then Minister for Education Peter Garrett and Shadow Minister Christopher Pyne. The first question was from the CEO of Christian Schools and the final question was from a representative of the (USA funded?) right wing think tank CIS. There were hardly any questions that could be considered left of centre.

Tony Jones knows what questions have been submitted and has a cueing system to the seating position of the people whose questions have been approved. Not all approved questions get asked depending on where the responses from the panel lead.

I consider that Steve Ciobo MP gave a very poor performance on Monday. He wanted to act as judge and jury on a man who had served his time for a threat made in his youth and the court accepted that he had shown no intent to carry out the threat. That is why the sentence was so short