Here’s another opportunity to be very mise-en-abyme and question the Q&A questioners questioning the Q&A panel while the questioning takes place! How web 3.0!
In other words, will Tony Abbott carry on like a pork chop? Will Louise Adler talk about the Bill Henson controversy? Will Warren Mundine denounce a “new ATSIC”? What sense does it make to have a panel with Bob Brown, Tony Abbott, Tanya Plibersek, Louise Adler anyway? Are they going to talk about the politics of the week, or take questions on anything? Will the questions be sharper and more policy and life-focused than the ones professional interviewers often put? Have at it!
I have a question. Does anyone else who’s Indigenous other than Warren Mundine think he’s an “Indigenous leader”? What’s he done in his life apart from being an ALP hack?
Not off to a good start. First question is the MSM/opposition line of the week.
Let’s see. Warren agrees with Tanya because they’re both in the ALP. Tony does his usual schtick.
Second question on oil’s a good one though. Both parties are being totally irresponsible.
Louise Adler looks like she’s wondering why she’s there.
[I have a question. Does anyone else who’s Indigenous other than Warren Mundine think he’s an “Indigenous leader”? What’s he done in his life apart from being an ALP hack?]
There’s always Noel Pearson to call upon.
I think the show is pathetic.
It’s as shallow as a Glen Milne piece.
Tony Jones is useless - he’s in the Gretel Killen, Kyle and the bimbo class now.
What did they think was going to happen with a panel that diverse, an open public forum and an opinionated idiot in charge?
It’s just a mashup of doorstops that stands no chance of informing or educating.
That bloke in the hat is entertaining though!
Someone should dig up the La Rouche guy in the scarf from last year.
I’m in the room with the computer definitely not listening to[or at least trying not to] the sound from the room with the TV.
Particularly when I just heard “Shit! I just agreed with something Tony Abbott said!”
Oh dear, feminist meets bigoted rightist.
Not that bad
Do many other’s think this might be a one season wonder?
I think the format’s promising but I think there are a couple of problems at least:
(1) Too big a panel and too many topics. And it was too centred on Plibersek as a representative of the government;
(2) The ABC’s “balance” thing.
11 Mark
I like the idea but the implementation is woeful.
I think the real problem is that the level of professionalism is far short of that which the panellists would be accustomed to, and that it will be hard to get panellists who already have a mainstream identity to agree to appear.
As a vehicle for people on the fringes it’s a great opportunity, but as a shallow rehash of what the relatively uneducated think about the weeks hot button issues it’s got really limited appeal.
Good News Week has a better chance of a more incisive understanding or investigation of current events.
Reducing the major players [Plibersek and Abbott last night] to short doorstop style grabs on major issues does neither of them any real good and does very little for meaningfully explaining politics to a wider audience.
As a junkie I could have answered almost word perfectly any of the questions to most of the main players; evidence that last nights format uncovered nothing outside the entrenched positions and scripts. The only new thing I found [and it’s not really new - it’s just rarely gets a voice] was the vehement expression of the views against the the treatment of humanity of the former Liberal government.
Sure we [Australia] voted them out, but we’ve been pretty polite about explaining why.
I lovede Bob Brown’s remark about children in detention centres being child abuse by the Howard Government.
It was my first experience of Q@A and I have to say by the end I was enjoying it, particularly when the audience went a bit feral, I would like to see a bit more of that. I particularly enjoyed the opportunity to hear Tony Abbott in freeform as he is abosolutely mad in my opinion, and its delicious when he has to answer without a preplanned “message”
Another thing I was glad to hear was the discussion about the Camden Muslim school and racism/xenophobia as there was a refreshing lack of dogwhistling going on (apart from Tony) I think its vitally important that people with these tendencies get a clear message from others that this is just not acceptable, I only hope we continue to hear more as to me it indicated a change in the general public discourse about these issues that is very hopeful.
So I dont think its as bad as it could be, I hated the other thing with the cartoonist last year, can’t think what it was called now but it really irked me.
oh that was Talking Heads. Each week the host Jeff Mcmullen would end with a trip to that cartoonist in the docks. who had an odd way of drawing women.
no I think it was worse, he would go to the cartoonist during the discussion, and kill any debate by doing so
Er Difference of Opinion for what it’d worth, which is very little.