But the article was not removed until mid-morning on Thursday, more than 12 hours after Mr Windschuttle's apology.
The ABC has called in security experts to assess any possible impact flowing from the "inflammatory words", Ms Guthrie said. Communications Minister Mitch Fifield said the article was a "new low" in Australian public debate, labelling the comments "sick and unhinged"
Guthrie’s statement said:
Quadrant promotes itself as “the leading general intellectual journal of ideas”. Those words ring hollow in the wake of last night’s vicious and offensive attack on the ABC, its staff and its program guests.
To take issue with our programming and our content is one thing. But to express the wish that, if there were any justice, the horrific terrorist bombing in Manchester would have taken place in the ABC’s Ultimo studio and killed those assembled there is a new low in Australian public debate.
Your subsequent attempt to make amends by changing some of the wording (without acknowledging or apologizing for the original article) has done little to undo the damage. The article continues to state that if a blast occurred in one of our studios, none of the likely casualties “would have represented the slightest reduction in humanity’s intelligence, decency, empathy or honesty”.
Like many others, I am appalled at your willingness to turn an act of terrorism in the United Kingdom into a means of making a political point against those you disagree with.
The Australian’s associate editor, Chris Kenny, joined the debate about the article on Twitter, saying while the general argument was a worthwhile point of view, the line about the ABC was appalling.
Leo by his tone is quite happy with what was published as a political statement against the ABC. Normal people would find that attack on the ABC as Terrorism. There will be more to come from this.

I would of thought Deveny's comments on the need for the raping the young Irwin girl or even the abc's depiction of Abbott having sex with a dog might of caused a little outrage from the left. No instead someone who was a little unwise in showing the abc's stupidity in glossing and apologising over the dangers of an evil ideology produces such 'outrage'. So selective.

doog,

So, specifically, what were the words that necessitated that and worse, were "very destructive", "extreme public terrorism" and warranted Imprisonment?

Just quote the sentence or passage. So all can get a sense of what was so shocking.

My apologies for the typo.

Here's the link again:

http://www.crikey.com.au/2017/05/24/quadrant-is-a-halfway-house-for-the-politically-deranged/

There’s nothing like the possible collapse of your magazine to concentrate an editor’s mind wonderfully. Returning Quadrant editor Keith Windschuttle might have been willing to tough out the scandal arising from online editor Roger Franklin’s late-night first draft of history, in which he musedapprovingly about someone setting off a nail-and-bolt bomb in the Q&A studios. With both ABC boss Michelle Guthrie and Arts Minister Mitch Fifield condemning the post, and the original version referred to the AFP, Windschuttle had no choice but to cede ground, initially making clear that the article was indefensible: