Dear Bazz,

Just the fact that the ban came into play at all
if enough reason for concern.

Dear Poirot,

It will be interesting to see if our Communications
Minister, Malcolm Turnbull will appear on Q&A.

Malcolm Turnbull as Communications Minister,
one would think should be obligated to appear on Q&A
representing the Government and explain the Government's
policy on censoring the ABC.

I am sure the Electorate would like to know what the
Government is attempting to do and they would like
an explanation of the Government policy.

on the issue.

Foxy,

Just to demonstrate the hypocrisy of Abbott's "boycott" - here's what he and Hockey had to say about moves to boycott Alan Jones a few years back:

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/abbott-hockey-refuse-radio-boycott-20121002-26xho.html

"OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott and shadow treasurer Joe Hockey have made it clear that when it comes to Alan Jones, the numbers say it all.

Mr Abbott, asked whether he would continue to go on the Jones program, declared: ''I am certainly not going to ignore an audience of half a million people in Sydney.''

Mr Hockey said it was ''the height of arrogance to say you're going to boycott some sort of radio show that has an audience of 5, 6, 700,000 Australians.'"

For goodness sakes Foxy, the ABC board is having an enquiry into the
incident and during that ministers are not to appear.
Quote;
Malcolm Turnbull as Communications Minister,
one would think should be obligated to appear on Q&A
representing the Government and explain the Government's
policy on censoring the ABC.

Why ?
What policy ? Last I heard there was no such policy and it appears the
government has no power to do so, outside laws that affect all media
and people, eg security matters.
I am sure the people can wait until after Ray Martins enquiry to find out.

Poirot, needs to take a Bex and have a nice lie down.

I could say, if I was game, that the ladies are becoming hysterical.

I am sure that if the boot was on the other foot there would be screams of self-serving bias at the team chosen by the ABC to review itself.

Here is one of the two, Ray Martin, in full flight,

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/ray-martin-urged-to-step-down-from-qa-review-after-calling-boycott-silly-20150707-gi75x0.html

Is that how an impartial reviewer acts and prior to even completing the review?

Astonishing that the (albeit lightweight) 'interviewers'(sic) made no attempt to call Ray Martin's bluff. Yet each one of them would be paid better than many medical specialists in public employment and a multiple of what a nurses earn, to take a couple of examples.

I don't know where Foxy gets the idea that Comrade Jones would have allowed Joyce to talk about what Foxy wanted to hear.

Joyce did not "withdraw". He was instructed to stay away by his boss, Tony Abbott, who has finally decided to exert some authority over some of his nincampoops. The next one to pull into line is Turnbull. However, the gesture of boycotting the ABC is pretty pathetic compared with the essential action of withdrawing all funding from the bigoted ABC. But, Abbott is not man enough for that.