Question and Answers on ABC

As Willy Wonker said...’Strike that, reverse it!’

My praise for the ABC’s impartiality has been a little tarnished by a couple of observations made yesterday.

Q&A, the popular TV program, had as one of its guests, the former Prime Minister, John Howard. I am unsure as to whether the producers are balanced in their selection of the audience. They generally gave Johnny a hard time.

There was a looney who thought he was an Iraqi journalist and threw his shoes at the ex-PM. The show’s security blokes seemed to take some time to eject him and he had time to stand up, take off his shoes and throw them one at a time at Johnny. Then there was a video link to David Hicks.

Davo, converted to Islam, trained in Afghanistan with an Al-Queda aligned terror organisation and returned to Australia. After 9/11 he returned to Afghanistan to fight the infidel invaders. He like another Australian desert wanderer, "Jihad Jack" Thomas, just happened to meet Osama Bin Laden.

Johnny Howard wasn’t fazed by Davo and did a reasonable job of pointing out that Davo probably wasn’t the innocent he claimed. Little Johnny is on a book promo tour around Aus and is up for any publicity he can get.

I had a phone call from a friend who teaches in Denmark, down south of the state. One of his students has been kicked out of home and James thought I could help with a computer for her studies. We will drive down to Denmark and overnight on Monday, set up the computer, either a desktop or iBook and head back Tuesday afternoon.

Joan has a very heavy schedule of consultations, PICC line dressings and then the chemo boost, SIRT infusion and follow up chemo hit the next day. The Oncologist wants her back on Chemo after a month’s break just six days before Helen’s wedding. We will ask if he could delay it another six days, so that Joan can enjoy the wedding.