I've just read an interesting article from the
BBC - written on 13 May 2016 entitled: "Duncan Storrar:
The instant hero torn down in days."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36263711

It appears that Australia's media has been transfixed by
Duncan Storarr, an audience member on the ABC's Q&A
program. Storrar asked a question about Scott Morrison's
budget measures.

"I've got a disability and a low education, that means I've
spent my whole life working for minimum wage. You're gonna lift
the tax-free threshold for the rich people," he pointed out to
Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer.

"If you lift my free threshold, that changes my life," Storrar
continued. That means that I get to say to my little girls -
'Daddy's not broke this week-end. We can go to the pictures.'
Rich people don't even notice their tax-free threshold lift."

"Why don't I get it?" Storrar asked. "Why do they get it?"

Storrar was right. Low income earners did not receive an income
tax cut in Morrison's budget. High income earners did.

Here was a bloke asking a real and entirely relevant question of
his political representatives. Unfortunately, this was a moment
that appeared too much for O'Dwyer who waffled in her reply.

The media reaction on both sides of politics was quite amazing.
One side decided to attack Storrar's personal background, the
other side decided to use this to attack their political opponents.

There was even a charitable fund set up for donations for Storrar.
He certainly could not believe his luck as a result of appearing
on a TV show.

It is worth noting that Storrar never asked for charity.
He asked for a tax cut for low-income earners - a valid question
by an ordinary bloke - that caused quite a stir.

Your reactions please?

Now he is a victim, is he? What a load of bollocks!

Heh, heh, the BBC should be examining its own spin. Isn't it capitalising on the fool and adding its own editorial slant as well?

Quote "a symbol for progressives and a target for conservatives"
He was certainly the first and leftists are still buffing him up. However he wasn't equally a target for the 'conservatives'. Of course where the media are concerned the truth is usually an inconvenience that gets in the road of sensationalising pap.

If this fellow is an ordinary Australian 'bloke' we should give up right now. His nearest relatives say he is anything else but.

The real story here is how the ABC tightly structures (to put it kindly) Q&A. How it chooses its audience and questions which it itself frames (how far?) and manipulates the show. So much for Ray 'The Rug' Martin's assurances. What a tool he is and in both senses of the word.

I agree that poor people should not be taxed, but poor Duncan will now waste all his donations on taking his daughters to the pictures, probably including the junk-food that comes with it. His daughters will have nightmares as a result as well as get all kinds of disturbing Hollywood-ideas in their heads about unrealistic and unnecessary things they are supposed to achieve in life, which might leave them frustrated for the rest of their lives.

Rich American actors and junk-food chains will become even richer.

The getup crowd on q&a have been so dumbed down that they applaud and make heroes out of Islamic terrorist, illegal immigrants and welfare seekers. The ABC are an absolute disgrace. The ABC need to have funding slashed and become more tolerant of truth instead of their warped ideologies

Curiouser and curiouser...

We have an unusual mix of misguided charity on one side
with people donating thousands to a fund for Duncan
Storrar and on the other side we have the savagery
of conservative anger attacks directed at him.
All this as a result of a question he posed to the
panel in the Q&A TV program.

Of course there's always the predictable attacks on the ABC, and
references to the cutting of its funding.

We also got, "The Australian" again, all too predictably going on
the attack. This is a newspaper that likes to call itself
the "Heart of the Nation." It gave Storrar's income
figures all over the front page on the Wednesday - complaining
that Storrar paid "no net tax" and later this was followed
by an unflattering interview with Storrar's estranged son.

This vicious attack on the one hand, and the charitable
donations on the other hand are really curious.
What can we make of all this - when a poor person merely asks
a pointed question on National Television?

Does is show that the government and its cheer-leaders are
concerned about inequality becoming an
election issue?

How did the newspapers get hold of his history from Victoria police or wherever they got it from?

As well as how did they get the salary information looks like someone accessed the tax dept computers, I remember a situation a while ago someone accessed the records of a prime ministers daughter the sh!t hit the fan then, bet nothing happens here.

Should be easy enough to check the data base for his records in the past few days, bet that won't happen.