'Those who argue that the ABC demonstrates left wing bias in its current affairs programs only demonstrate how right wing this country is. There is precious little "left wing" analysis or argument in the ABC or anywhere else in the msm. '

Regressives and overpaid staff are the only ones upset about any cuts to the national broadcasters. Says it all. If it was so balanced then the balanced ones would be sad about about cuts.

I agree with an eminently sensible Craig Minns and given the number of government representatives invited to speak, I just don't see this so called left wing bias.

My problem is with a patently right wing Tony Jones, who seems to lose control and give the government speakers more time to speak (the motor mouth Marabella show) than those who hold a different view, and the way he tends to ask leading questions to elicit certain answers as happened with Mallah.

It's just a pity we didn't have Man Monis on and given his head on Q+A; and thus known just how dangerous he really was?

And instead of some of our citizens murdered,and others traumatized, he deported to where his views are more widely accepted; which would be a good outcome if it could somehow be arranged for an equally dangerous and diabolically despicable (tweet tweet) Mallah!
Rhrosty.

I have to agree with an eminently sensible Craig Minns and given the number of government representatives invited to speak, I just can't

My principle problem is with a patently right wing Tony Jones, who seems to lose control and give the government speakers more time to speak (the motor mouth Marabella show) than those who may hold a different view, and the way he seems to ask leading questions to elicit certain answers as happened with Mallah.

What a pity we didn't have Man Monis on and given his head on Q+A; and thus all of us known how dangerous he and his views were?
And instead of some of our citizens murdered,and others traumatized, he deported to where his views are more widely accepted; which would be a good outcome if it could somehow be arranged for an equally dangerous and diabolically despicable (tweet tweet) Mallah!
Rhrosty.

Rhostry,

"the patently right wing Tony Jones"! Join the Mad Hatter. That is your craziest statement yet.

Embarrassment seems to follow media and politicians alike. Too many embarrassing stories must seem to some people as planned created stories because embarrassing stories seems like open government transparency. Democracies I believe must look like open to all to see the mistakes governments make. The ABC government financed broadcaster must be seen as independent from politicians. Pretty obvious to me that occasional ABC embarrassments allows democracy governments and broadcasters to look independent from each other. Everyone wins and poor thinking populations are easily fooled and entertained. If there were an argument for why education teachers stupidity, easily believing embarrassing stories to be true is one argument.

The sad thing is it's not even about the ABC.

Another masterful distraction by Abbott he has somehow turned this into an issue to stop the talk believing about his new Terror laws.
The fact that the guy in question has made numerous TV appearances some of them live is beside the point.
Abbott has managed to get the sheepish Libertarians to be throwing poop at the ABC inside of him and so our democrazy is weaker.

There is no end to the Abbott fanboys who will fall over themselves to agree's with anything he says, mindless fools like ttbn who ignore the fact the Q& A has a Liberal polly on just about every week. The government of the day needs to govern for All Australia not just their supporters. Howard who always be ready to express his vision and explain himself. Abbott is a second rate man doing a second rate job at PM. He's just lucky we have a second rate opposition.

Power is all Abbott has been after and he will do anything and say anything to keep it.