Of course, Abbott's interference with the independence of the ABC has nothing whatsoever to do with his penchant for many flags and uniforms....one of the delights of his PMship is waiting with baited breath to see which kind of uniform and which kind of military brass he is going to appear with at his next photo op.

I hear he has customs all decked out in brass buttons these days as well.

So, CH, yes he's only a learner - but he's certainly passed grade 1 at Fascism special ed.

But, poor old Barnaby has way more challenging problems than Tones banning him from QandA - apart from having a whopping great coal mine dumped in his electorate (which should bode well for his re-election in that seat:)...Indonesia has just cut Australia's live cattle imports by 4/5 - that's down from 250,000 to 50,000.

I suppose they thought we were too decadent...or something.

A spokesman said it had nothing to do with Australia turning asylum seekers around and giving a regular "up yours" to Indonesia (or something along those lines :)

Apparently Barnaby is "disappointed".

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-14/government-disappointed-as-indonesia-slashes-live-cattle-imports/6617430

Suse, pardon my typo, I'm sure I'm not the first or last. Oops, looky there, Poirot just misspelled Bolt. (Or will she claim that was intentional?)

But back to the essence of my comment to you. You called Abbott a dictator as have several others from your team. I simply pointed out that we are not living under a dictatorship / authoritarian regime like you guys keep saying. Abbott is no more of a dictator or liar than the first female PM.

Instead of admitting your over exaggeration you changed the topic and carried on with your one-eyed attack.

Its impossible to have a two-way discussion under conditions where one person just keeps spouting variations on the same theme without any intention of considering the other person's perspective, no matter how irritating it might be. If you can't admit the current Government is not the Dictatorship you claim (fear), and that you have over stated your argument, then in my view you are being impossibly stubborn.

I'm sorry I ever got involved in this discussion, the writing was on the wall from the minute the thread was posted - this was a set up for Cheer Leaders for the ABC to have rant and they are doing a great job of it.

" Oops, looky there, Poirot just misspelled Bolt. (Or will she claim that was intentional?)"

It was definitely intentional....(I've "mispelled" it twice, if you'd care to check:)

Tell me, CH, have we ever had a PM who's openly displayed fascist leanings?

We have now.

SOL,

I generally don't watch either Bolt or Tony Drones as undiluted left or right politics bores me. As TJ is a public servant he is not supposed to pronounce biased opinions, but he just gets a 10 yr old to record his viewpoint and play it on his show (as subtle as a train wreck). As far as asking questions, it is essentially that TJ avoids many of the right questions such as:

What is conflict of interest?

Extortion and the CFMEU

Etc, but gay marriage etc are far more important!!

Paul,

Perhaps we could have the greens shadow ministers on. Such as SHY the minister for drowning asylum seekers and Karel Solom the green minister for children!

Poirot,

The most fascist PM award has to go to Juliar (National socialist) who with comrade Conjob tried to censor in one stroke the internet, the newspapers and radio / TV

Abbott wanting to turn the clean energy future into an Abbott slush fund. He wants to run the show bypassing all but himself.

The Abbott wing of the coalition liberal conservative party is in reversion, now wanting to set up a double dissolution election. Now we were promised a DD 2 years ago, so what happened to that.

The 80 million expense account for Abbott's royal commission into the non defense of workers rights. He thinks that will be enough to win him another 2 years as PM.

He has again upset the Indonesians, they are only taking a handful of cattle now.
A coal mine in prime farmland, A Clean energy future fund, An Abbott friendly ABC, An 80 million $ royal commission which Albet's got 17 million of for assisting the Commissioner. Tax payer money being spent on our behalf which we are not allowed to know about. It's all there.

Au contraire, SM...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-14/journalists-face-jail-for-exposing-security-agency-bungles/5776504

"Journalists face 10 years' jail for exposing security agency bungles"

(Yes , I know it was passed with Labor's support)

Loverly stuff....