Watched
the full show this morning and the cockflash is so brief you only notice it from the audience reaction. Not sure if the network snipped it or it really was that brief but either way it was worth a watch. I quite like Q&A anyway though - kinda like Australia's version of Question Time and quite often features noteworthy foreign guests for those of us unfamiliar with Aussie politics.
Hey wow - brits watching Q&A! That's interesting.
I must admit though, i cannot stomach that show. The ABC (Australia's Beeb equivalent) is under so much (thoroughly inappropriate) editorial pressure from our Colonial Tory Cunt government, that they tend to load the panel with neo-con guests for the sake of "balance" (the conservative party over here is convinced that the national broadcaster is biased towards the left, when independent analyses have demonstrated fairly convincingly that this isn't true - that, if anything, the ABC lean a little towards conservative bias - mostly, i suspect, out of a desire for self preservation from those privatising, plundering pricks).
But occasionally, the show's a gem.
There was a great episode last year, featuring Naomi Klein (amongst others, who i now forget. Damn drug-frazzled memory box

) that was really great - but if i had a tv, there is no way i could sit through that show each week. The rabid-right commentariat in this country is depressingly loud and obnoxious.
It's a great format, but unfortunately the current government have really done a number on our poor dear Auntie (ABC).
I never suspected anyone outside of australia (besides expat aussies) being interested in such a program - but you're a gentleman of such discerning taste, Mr Shambles, that your awareness of it does not surprise me (much).
Brian Cox is rather inspiring.
The guy he's sparring with in the aforementioned program is an outright nutcase. An outright nutcase that has been recently elected to our federal Senate.
Nightmarish.
But the leader of his party (a professional hatemonger named Pauline Hanson) spawned
this song (kinda) in her honour in the mid 90s, when Ms Hanson first hit the political scene, with her bizarre anti-immigration racist shit-stirring.
She sued the ABC for playing the song on the radio...and it was banned for twisting her words into, uh - the words of the drag queen satirist Pauline Pantsdown - a pro-gay anthem...using samples of her (Pauline Hanson's) voice.
20 years later that tune still cracks me up.
Thankfully, it's on youtube despite being "banned" for libel or slander or somesuch.
(The footage is of one of our previous conservative PMs conceding electoral defeat in 2007, i believe - perhaps a bit irreverent for a non-australian audience?)
