The ABC’s Q&A returns to our screens tonight.
Tonights episode looks like a pretty tame affair, with a full panel of Australians of the year – Peter Cosgrove, Tim Flannery, Fiona Wood, Jonty Bush and Tania Major.
Season one was highly entertaining, with episodes featuring Abbott, Costello and Turnbull providing interesting television.
And who could forget the fine reptilian performance of Tom Switzer in last years final episode. Completely unlikeable, I hope they have him on again.
I’m also looking forward to the “balance” provided by the token right wing fruitcakes on the panel and the audience.
I for one can’t get enough of Bolt, Blair and Hendo on the ABC.
More ideological and denialist claptrap on our screens is always better, right?
Hopefully this season the Liberal Party will have taken the time to organise a busing program of skinheads and young liberals from wherever they get ‘em instead of complaining about ABC bias in Senate estimates like they did last year.
By “tame affair” you mean ridiculously boring, right?
None of these people are in a position of power and influence and that was one of the drawing card’s ABC was using to promote the show all of last year.
I wonder who they’ll be able to find for the Pilger/Greer contrarian chair.
I could ever have too much of either but, were the ABC truly ‘courageous’ they’d retain the foam flecked RWDBs and put them on the same panel.
The Germ beautifully dealth with the Oz Letters editor (whose name thankfully I’ve forgotten) and Pilger’s calm dissection and packing of Downer was a joy to behold.
Yeah, as opposed to all those times when people depart from their scripts and say something shockingly true and interesting, all those times when public policy has pivoted around a moment of truth from a show more (badly) choreographed than Dancing with the Stars.
Why do you need to see Tom Switzer behave like a pinhead and treat a man (a former refugee) like he was a stereotype? It only increases his status as a warmed-over Bill “Wrong About Everything” Kristol.
Full of sound and (occasionally) fury, signifying nothing. If you’ve been hawking your script around and been getting knocked back, look at the shower that is Q&A and get angry.
Nice show tonight, everyone in furious agreement. It’s been a heckuva time in Oz the past week and the show struck the right note.
At least the ABC had the good sense not to have Miranda (From the Dark Side) Devine or Andrew Bolt on tonight’s show. I would’ve enjoyed watching them get booed by the audience.
The testimony of the bushfire survivors was incredibly moving. And that home movie of the bushfire was horrifying.
Good, sensible and compassionate answers from the panel. Jonty Bush was excellent.
I only saw a bit of it in passing – The Sydney Broadcasting Corporation indeed.
From the Sydney studios with Queenslanders, NSW and WA persons on panel.
No Victorians on panel from what I saw.
Why?
There were four Victorians in the audience and 3/4 of the show was dedicated entirely to them
Phil – can anyone from the right wing not be a fruitcake?
It’s interesting that the ABC, forever branded as a nesty of latte lefties, now feels compelled (by its board?) to routinely provide maximum air time to the most out-there and unrepresentative right-wing nutters, nerdy bores and foaming-at-the-mouth troglodytes.
Phil – can anyone from the right wing not be a fruitcake?
Probably, but PLEASE, name one!
“…the fine reptilian performance of Tom Switzer…”
Lovely description. I’m with you Phil. Let’s have these creepy toads out from behind their keyboards and into the bright light so we can get a good look at them.
Revolting, but kinda cleansing.
The best Q&A was when that conservative poof Tim Wilson(literally, no offence to poofs, I am one) from the IPA outed himself in an attempt to get to Penny Wong. Got to hand it to the IPA – a spokes for every situation.
Bill – that was no great surprise.