QandAnarchy

[cq_tech]

I was thoroughly disgusted by the appalling lack of manners displayed by the demonstrators in the studio audience last night and I was extremely gratified to see that following a short unscheduled musical interlude, they had been unceremoniously ejected from the studio. Not the best way to try to get their point across, and they did far more harm to their cause than good IMO. 😞

[icyfroth]

totally agree,cq.

Tony Jones handled it well IMO.

I thought it odd that the entire audience seemed to be uni students.

Surely the show's producers must have realised it could turn into an organised shirtfight.

Doesn't the show aim for a more balanced mix of the population?

Or was no one else interested?

[tall_bearded]

To get a balanced audience, you must first have to cater for it.

That is if you bring to the panel a zealot with one particular point of view, and then you stack the same panel with persons more moderate but with a similar point of view, and then leaving one space open (the sacrificial lamb), with a different point of view, then don’t be surprised if the only audience you attract are more zealots (both for and against)

Frankly its time that no more public monies be wasted on this one sided talkfest.

[i-need-a-martini]

3 things:

Firstly, people have a right to protest in this country so these kids did nothing wrong.

Secondly, my only beef with Q&A is that the audience and panel make up for the past year and a half has been consistently heavy on the conservative side. people that say that the panels or audiences are stacked are simply not watching consistently.

Thirdly, the only 'zealots' I have ever seen on the show are right winged. 

[boris1gary]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

3 things:

Firstly, people have a right to protest in this country so these kids did nothing wrong.

Secondly, my only beef with Q&A is that the audience and panel make up for the past year and a half has been consistently heavy on the conservative side. people that say that the panels or audiences are stacked are simply not watching consistently.

Thirdly, the only 'zealots' I have ever seen on the show are right winged. 

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Well done to the students, it's wonderful to see some of our university students concerned enough to want to actually do something. A lot of uni campuses have been very quiet and conservative for some time.

[nero_bolt]

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@tall_bearded wrote:

Frankly its time that no more public monies be wasted on this one sided talkfest.

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I agree, cut the funding for this waste of time show.  Cut the funding to these waste of time and space student/protesters as well.

Socialists disrupt Q&A: prove the worst of the ABC and the far Left

Last night’s shambolic Q&A proves:

- just how easy it has been for the Left to infiltrate the Q&A audience, often claiming to be conservatives. At least two of the first three questions came from people who identified as Socialist Alternative speakers. Then the show was interrupted for several minutes by at least half a dozen sympathisers, chanting slogans and unfurling a banner. Other questioners sounded like fellow travellers. So much for the vetting.  Q&A claimed the audience comprised Coalition voters 47 per cent, ALP 38, Greens 9. Utter rubbish.

- how foul a world would be led by socialists like these students. They were rude (one shouted “liar” at Christopher Pyne, misrepresenting Pyne’s opinion), they repeatedly heckled Pyne and shouted him down, they ended all discussion for several minutes by chanting and forcing Q&A to break transmission, they demanded others pay for their privileges, they lied in claiming our education system was only for the rich. Abusive, selfish thugs with no respect for the opinions of others. The kind of people who created the Gulag Archipelago.

It is the totalitarian instinct made manifest.

Healthy reactions:

Australian Liberal Students’ Federation spokesperson Matthew Lesh condemned the disruption to the de...

“This demonstration displays the willingness of the extreme left to use disruptive and ferocious methods” Mr Lesh sid.

“Tonight’s protests are an embarrassment to students, and do not in any sense represent the regular student body.” 

How did so many socialist radicals get into the Q&A audience? What is the vetting like? How often does this happen, when we’re told the audience is balanced but discover from the hooting it’s just another love-in of the Left? 

[bushies.girl]

Perhaps like many Australians they are worried about their future under Abbott's cut, cut, slash, cut government. Good on them for standing up for their rights!

Great to see Pyne copping it back for a change 🙂

[lakeland27]

talk about over- reaction there wulfy.  i think its encouraging to see people with a little ticker. good on them for holding a corrupt administration to account..

agree with mark trevorrow .

[boris1gary]

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@lakeland27 wrote:

talk about over- reaction there wulfy.  i think its encouraging to see people with a little ticker. good on them for holding a corrupt administration to account..

agree with mark trevorrow .

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"they were rude", imagine that, called poodles a liar - hahahahahahahahahahahhahhhaaahhahahahaha - soooooooooo unlike the polite fiberals and their pom pom boys, the always polite and gentlemanly bolter and jones.

[lakeland27]

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@boris1gary wrote:

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@lakeland27 wrote:

talk about over- reaction there wulfy.  i think its encouraging to see people with a little ticker. good on them for holding a corrupt administration to account..

agree with mark trevorrow .

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"they were rude", imagine that, called poodles a liar - hahahahahahahahahahahhahhhaaahhahahahaha - soooooooooo unlike the polite fiberals and their pom pom boys, the always polite and gentlemanly bolter and jones.

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that is hilarious 'they were rude' indeed.  hopefully everyone will become a whole lot ruder.