It is good if you could finally wake up to laughing at your own lapses, Foxy.

There is a lot of quiet mirth when you stoop from on high to lecture other posters on how to research and present an argument, or even their morality, all of which are always sadly lacking.

Then there are those patronising and sarcastic quotes that put down the inferior 'Dears' you ride your high horse over.

Now, what about that clown Yassmin, hasn't she had them all bluffed too? Her ABC handlers should be ashamed of themselves for teasing the 'Useful Idiots', the baying, self-righteous leftist 'Progressive' Hipsters from Ultimo, that seem to be the ABC's audiences, at least where the camera is concerned.

Come on now, step back a mite and think: Yassmin with the grain silo sized headdresses (more pretentious than a Russian Orthodox Church bishop) and all of her get-up (maybe a pun there) and a shiny red nose to top it all off. Precious! Not even 1 April to tip those adoring, ever so 'Progressive', Hipsters off either. Naughty ABC!

While above flies the almost bursting, powdered pastel blimp of ego that is the puffed-up scowling legal Princess Gillian, who is writing a book you say, which could help to explain why she was so absent minded where QUT students are concerned.

Dear Foxy,

Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a very bright and highly accomplished young Australian. I think Julie Bishop standing by her was an indication of the respect she garners outside the more frenetic right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yassmin_Abdel-Magied

She is paying the price of being politically incorrect. The right revel in being un-PC and applaud when their side engages in it. Most of us just move on when we hear it but not the snowflakes of the right. They will keep banging on about this until the cows come home.

Kinda sad really.

SteeleRedux,

You try very hard to grow that long nose, but a bright red Bozo add-on can still be found, luckily for you!

Julie Bishop 'stood by Yassmin'? Is that what shrugging one's shoulders at crass stupidity and directing counselling for the deserving one is now to be called?

leoj,

What lapses?

I had read about what the student newspaper had done
in wikipedia's article on Gillard sometime ago.
I thought it an appropriate response to your diversions
on Gillard (and Triggs) in a discussion that had nothing to
do with either. I then went back on topic to Yassmin.

Yet you continue with your ad hominems. Those tactics
have well and truly worn thin.

Dear Steele,

I don't know that much about Jassmin Abdel Magied.
So thanks for the information. I did think that her
comments on ANZAC Day were inappropriate - however the
reaction to them was certainly over the top. Also her comments
about Islam on Q&A deserved the reaction Jassmin received
from Senator Jacqui Lambie. However,
it can't have been easy being a female and a
Muslim to boot to achieve as much as Yassmin has.
You've got to admire that.

I agree with you about some of the posters on this forum.
Quite a few of them are not capable of arguing on a mature,
intelligent level. No one likes or supports an abusive,
illogical or weak debater. Still, the art of
reasoned, intelligent argument is a skill not easily acquired.
I keep coming back to the forum because of people like
yourself, AJ Philips, Paul, just to mention a few. Please keep
on posting.

Foxy,

So now after it had to be explained to you that your glowing announcement in respect of Gillard was actually a April Fools Day prank you are claiming that you actually knew that all along?

Pull the other one.

You are yet another who is growing a very long nose today. LOL

Come on now, go for that last word too.

leoj,

No. Julie Bishop did more then just "shrug" as you
put it:

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/05/08/bishop-sticks-abdel-magied

Obviously Julie Bishop believes in a person's talent,
abilities, and of course free speech.