Re: A word to Q&A: seat your greens, Michael Bodey, The Australian, page 6, 18 December 2015

Ironic that on 30 June 2015, Janet Albrechtsen lamented the arrogant left-bias of the ABC and in particular the Q&A program, when today it is reported in the same paper that an independent review of the Q&A program found that it is in fact biased against the Greens.

Apparently the review also concluded that in terms of both speaking time and questioning, the program content was dominated by the Coalition government.

I wonder why I find it hard to trust the Abbott cheer squad, when all they do is charge at windmills with their self-serving vitriol.

I am not a fan of Q&A and I'm even less a fan of Tony Jones. However, I'm glad in this instance that the facts unreservedly bury the inane assertions of Abbott and his pack of hyenas.

Abbott beat Kevin Rudd who is almost winning the UN Secretary General seat ( but keeping a beady eye on J Gillard, PM and Pension). Kev went overseas to find policies for the Australia people and being World Ruler is better than down-under or under-done or undone which Julia did. Sec Gen Abbott would look undone in jocks doing laps of New York city but he knows how to shirtfront and eyeball and may come up to scratch. UN needs some one-liner speakers and we miss his style:
"We're stopping the boats. Start the bombs. Bomb the starters. We're boating. Stopping the start".

Turnbull, is doing his best to rid the Liberal Party of the last vestiges of the failed Abbott regime. Short of sending some to the gulag for re-education he has given them the flick, others have seen the light and repented past sins and are now firmly on board. Others are yet to be dealt with, but given time they too will be purged.

The Abbott regime was a failure, and there are some other infiltrators that need culling. People that are mind set like Abbott find it hard to change their evil intentions.
AU came very close to the bone with Abbott and his policies that were a sham.
Turnbull is in Japan to find out what Abbott said to Abe concerning the submarines that were to urgent to get quotes for. In any case those subs need to be built here. As with all military equipment.

The depth of the delusion that the left whingers suffer from continues to amaze me.

Firstly, the only "independent review" that I am aware of is the internal review done within the ABC whose result was pretty much pre ordained. That Q&A is invariably stacked with labor/green guests with generally one token moderate or conservative is their warped version of "balanced".

Secondly, While Krudd is tilting for the post of UN SG, and has managed to drum up a couple of insignificant supporters, he hasn't a snowball's chance in hell of getting the position without the Aus Government's support, and even Turnbull would not inflict the pompous self serving windbag on the UN. JG has more intelligently opted to take a few well paid, but meaningless posts to pad her dotage.

Finally, the thought that Liberal party has been completely reformed by Turnbull's ascension is laughable. MT is unlikely to forget how quickly he was booted out when he tried to deviate too far from his mandate as leader, and his whole hearted adoption of Abbott's successful policies is proof of this. While MT has populated his cabinet with his supporters, there is still a strong conservative backbone in the caucus.

As TA is no longer in the cabinet he's no longer bound by the party line dictated by MT and is free to air his opinions publicly, and while he is has honoured his pledge not to undermine or criticise MT, he is voicing the concerns of a significant portion of the coalition and cannot be dismissed lightly

No one will ever dismiss Abbott lightly, not after his election B/S . He sold every conservable body part he used to have, to secure that election. You could say he told unimaginable untruths and others that were just plain not correct.
The Conservatives in his own line up went against him, now that says something. You really are on the nose when that happens, and helped along with a few lefties. Two thirds of one term and out you go.
No wisdom in Abbott’s ramblings since, just more of the same offensive scriptures as before. Abbott’s ramblings will not guarantee his followers any guarantee of reelection.
Julia could be frontrunner in that contest, she has more wisdom and control than Rudd