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Q & A: June 10

It's starting to look a little ridiculous now that Tony Abbott refuses to appear on Q & A when Malcolm Turnbull will.

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2013-06-06_1057It’s starting to look a little ridiculous now that Tony Abbott refuses to appear on Q & A when Malcolm Turnbull will.

Next Monday host Tony Jones will be joined live on the panel by:

Former Federal Opposition leader Mark Latham;
Shadow Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull;
Minister for Trade Craig Emerson;
Journalist and commentator Jennifer Hewett; and
Saudi Arabia’s first female filmmaker Haifaa al-Mansour.

9:35pm Monday ABC1 and simulcast on ABC News 24.

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  1. Stan, saying you vote green and put the Liberals last on your preferences verifies your labor allegiance (unless you’re electorate is Melbourne).
    Back to Q&A, you’re correct, usually there is a conservative on the panel of Q&A, but is then surrounded by 4 of the left which degenerates into a Liberal bash-up session refereed by serial Left lover, Mr Jones.
    I’m not sure how accurate the Q&A audience statistics are either, unless of course the 30% of the left are just a very vocal minority.. which probably sums up the current politics of the Left.

  2. Prankster, if you must know, I vote Greens & independents most of the time. But I always make sure parties like the LNP & One Nation are last on my ballot.

    As for Q&A, how many right-wing morons do they need to put on that show before you finally understand how fair & balanced they are? The studio audience is always evenly balanced too. People like Piers Akerman & Niki Savva seem to have a place on every ABC panel show simply because they’re right-wing. But they offer nothing but recycled slogans from their Dear Leader, while wasting everyone’s time in the process.

  3. Stan, at 30% of the primary vote, the only people being weeded out is rusted on Labor voters like yourself. There is not need for Abbott to appear on the leftist bias QandA show, watched by a majority of Labor voters, tweeted on by Labor voters and moderated by Labor voters.

  4. Deplume, thanks for that civics lesson, but I already knew that. But you know as well as I do that voting for your party-aligned local member hinges on whether you like the party’s leader or not. Exhibit A; the controversy over dumping Rudd for Gillard. If Labor voters weren’t so invested in one person, then why would anyone get upset over it? In the case of the Coalition, it’s even worse. Because their Dear Leader (Abbott) sets the agenda way more than Gillard could even hope for in her party as she’s gotta get everything through Caucus first. Exhibit B; Abbott’s paid parental leave is very unpopular in his own party.

    It’s laughable that you compare Bolt to Q&A. Bolt doesn’t even pretend to be unbiased & the only guests with opposite views he has on his show are the ones he can easily steamroll. You’re clearly anti-ABC because their fair & balanced.

    Why doesn’t anyone just admit they’re gonna vote for Abbott since you people seem to be the majority? Because deep down, you know it’s shameful.

  6. deplume, why does anyone appear on Bolts lame show, have you not noticed he has the same people always on his show, answering his. Dorothy Dix questions!.And Tony Abbott will not appear in Q & A cause he will be made to answer questions simple as that, good luck to all of us when he becomes PM, cause it won’t be nice….

  8. Stan, since I live in neither Lalor nor Warringah, I won’t be voting for Gillard or Abbott – there is no election of PM by popular vote in Australia.

    Both shows are for entertainment only and pander to viewers of a particular ilk. I can see no difference in a left-leaning politician appearing on a right-wing show and the converse. Regardless of political leaning, they aren’t going to be telling the truth anyway.

  9. The fact remains that every broadcaster in Australia (including the ABC) needs to declare the political past (jobs or spouce jobs) or political present (jobs or spouce jobs), before they do each piece of political commentary. We need a level, truthful playing field. We do not have it now.

  10. Looks like we’ve weeded out an Abbott voter!

    Deplume, the reason why Gillard hasn’t been on Bolt is because his show is to politics like WWE is to sport. Every rational thinking person knows you should be entertained by Bolt, not informed by him.

  11. Tony Abbott is adopting the strategy Kevin Rudd used in the leadup to the 2007 election. Rudd refused to appear on any of the “shock jock” radio shows and even the 7:30 Report, instead confining his appearances to Sunrise and the FM breakfast shows where he was given an easy ride and not asked any hard questions. Why would Abbott want to appear on Q&A, a program which is totally left wing where anybody expressing conservative views is ridiculed, shouted down and derisively hooted at by the “progressive” audience?

  14. He won’t appear because he’s got no answers, apart from his usual mantras. He’s dead scared of being grilled by journalists, let alone the public.

    I can’t believe that Australians in general would vote for this man, let alone the appalling people who are always standing and nodding behind him, i.e. Julia Bishop, Christopher “yap dog” Pyne, Cameron Morrison, Sophie Mirabella etc.etc.

    They’re all just awful.

  16. I think his party cannot trust what he will say…ABC news has a story yesterday…where he said, when fronted with the question by a journalist…that the boats would be stopped in the first term of his government….not sure how that will happen…no one seems to have an answer….
    I hold no particular political views…I am just saying what I see….

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