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Last night's Q&A

bluecat*dancing — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 03:33:49 GMT

I'm watching a repeat of last night's Q&A. Rosalie Kunoth-Monks is mesmerising.

*Edited due to missing 's'.*

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i-need-a-martini — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 03:39:02 GMT

Yes I watched. She didn't answer a single question directly lol but when she spoke the world stopped. I wish she had gone into politics.

Same with Jane Goodall.

I am surpriesd that Betty Churcher came across so dimwitted. I knew her for a few years when she was the director at the NGA and she was tough, quick and scary. From last nights episode I thought age hasn't done any favours to her brain.

And the less said about Peter Coleman the better...

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bluecat*dancing — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 03:44:08 GMT

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bluecat*dancing — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 03:46:38 GMT

Absolutely spell-binding. Yes, that Liberal dinosaur is so ignorant. Jane Goodall is brilliant as usual but Betty Churcher has lost some sparkle, hasn't she?

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polksaladallie — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 03:56:36 GMT

@i-need-a-martini wrote:

I am surpriesd that Betty Churcher came across so dimwitted. I knew her for a few years when she was the director at the NGA and she was tough, quick and scary. From last nights episode I thought age hasn't done any favours to her brain.

She is ill, and her earlier life wouldn't have done her any favours.

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azureline** — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 04:10:04 GMT

I missed it. I might get to see it later today.

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i-need-a-martini — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 04:14:31 GMT

@polksaladallie wrote:
@i-need-a-martini wrote:

I am surpriesd that Betty Churcher came across so dimwitted. I knew her for a few years when she was the director at the NGA and she was tough, quick and scary. From last nights episode I thought age hasn't done any favours to her brain.

She is ill, and her earlier life wouldn't have done her any favours.

Really?? What's wrong with her?

I knew she had macular degeneration in her eyes which had stopped her driving and writing but otherwise I thought she was well? Message me if you know.

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azureline** — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 04:22:45 GMT

emphysema

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polksaladallie — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 04:25:46 GMT

What I know about her now is from a radio interview only, and this which I googled.

Her elegance hides a multitude of age-appropriate afflictions she would happily outsource: shortness of breath from the 60-a-day habit she gave up decades ago; arthritis; “an auto-immune thing”; blindness in her right eye due to melanoma; macular degeneration that’s left her with just enough sight in her good one to keep driving for a little longer; and this morning she’s menaced with a migraine.

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cherples — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 04:38:01 GMT

@bluecat*dancing wrote:

That was a good answer, as were her other comments, from a wise old woman

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i-need-a-martini — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 04:42:04 GMT

@azureline** wrote:
emphysema

Thanks. I was just speaking to a friend and she told me the same thing. She was one of those people that lit the new cigarette from her old cigarette.

Still a great personality shift from even a few years ago.

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cherples — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 04:52:51 GMT

It would have been lovely if Betty and Jane had put a sack over Coleman's head and tipped his chair over. He was a nasty self righteous old man.

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i-need-a-martini — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 07:24:31 GMT

@cherples wrote:

It would have been lovely if Betty and Jane had put a sack over Coleman's head and tipped his chair over. He was a nasty self righteous old man.

Even if he hadn't opened his mouth, his body language was appalling.