Tony Jones leapt in quickly, insistent and persistent int trying to bracket Ayaan Hirsi Ali's security concerns as probably minor to make her and her motivations the issue (and negative one would assume).

-Which Tony Jones would then have take taken further to diminish her credibility given the opportunity. However, it was made very obvious by some panelists, a woman ex-PM no less, that his attempt to question Ayaan Hirsi Ali's credibility just wasn't on.

So yes, the hidden secondary editorial policy of Q&A was obvious and Tony Jones' earpiece would have been running hot with prompts.

Just wait for the come-back by the ABC's hidden persuaders, with plenty of Muslim fundies and activist 'White Knights' to set it right, that is far leftist, again.

In closing, confidently expect more attempts by the ABC and other media, an example being SMH, to dirty-up Ayaan Hirsi Ali with the 'controversial' tag and more pejoratives to go with it.

Hi Foxy,

"nervousness", it turned out to be one of the best Q&A's this year, an excellent and knowledgeable panel. As a lefty I found myself in agreement with the conservative newspaper man Paul Kelly on a number of points.
One issue which was discussed, and unfortunately gets little traction in Australia is our foreign aid budget. I agree with Josh Frydenberg that our aid focus should be our near neighbors in the Asia/Pacific region. What I do not agree with is the appalling amount this government now commits to aid, 0.22% of GDP from an aspirational level of 0.5%. There appears to be little possibility of improvement without a change of government

Dear Paul,

Yes it did turn out well, I agree.

I too was very impressed with the rational of the
Editor, Paul Kelly, of The Australian newspaper.
He presented some very balanced views on a wide
variety of issues - and of course Josh Fridenberg's
explanation regarding foreign aid made a great deal
of sense. I also enjoyed the former Prime Minister
of Denmark's comments.

A good evening all round and I was glad that I watched
the program. It was fair and well balanced. We may not
always agree with everything on the show - but at least
it's a TV program where a wide variety of views is
represented.

Paul1405, "As a lefty.."

You and some others flatter yourself as 'Left'.

- Maybe before your own lunchtime washroom mirror, but apart from that don't be so ridiculous. LOL

Tony Jones, Q&A host appearing to play down the security risk as, 'a little bit exaggerated'. Why would Jones and Q&A's producers do that? However, if it came down to 'only demonstrators' as the sole matter affecting risk (which is not the case one would think), there is Q&A's own sorry record in protecting its guests and in giving a podium to at least one risky individual,

ABC's transcript,
TONY JONES
Josh... Josh, I’m just going to interrupt you there. I mean, you saw the petition. There are less than 400 signatures on it. It was hardly a kind of groundswell of opinion trying to stop her from coming here. And indeed, the police, who we spoke to, said that there was going to be a demonstration outside the ABC, but there weren’t enough people to actually make up a demonstration. So, it does seem the security issues are a little bit exaggerated.

JOSH FRYDENBERG
Well, if you look around the world, extremist Islam has been responsible for a number of very serious security incidents. So, you can’t take that lightly. I defer to the experts.

TONY JONES
I know, there’s no question. I mean, she obviously has a situation where someone who made a documentary film about her was murdered, but I’m simply saying there didn’t seem to be a huge groundswell here from what we could see from the petition, anyway
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s4631140.htm

Leoj, your phony forum comments are legendary, you ran and hid from your previous posted rubbish, do you think the new tag gives you some sort of credibility, unfortunately it don't, garbage is still garbage, no matter what tag you give yourself, you can't escape the garbage, although I see no mention of the Fabians these days, are they off the radar? You kid us that you have insider knowledge on everything from The Greens to the ABC, when all you have to offer is your biased Hansonite opinions.

Good to see you were able to find the Q&A web site and access the transcript of Monday's program. What is the point of your last cut and paste post, does it prove something?