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Australian Notes

Australian notes

4 July 2015

9:00 AM

4 July 2015

9:00 AM

Who won the wooden spoon for obtuseness among the swarm of the ABC’s apologists for putting Zaky Mallah on Q&A? Barrie Cassidy? He, with the Lindt café siege fresh in memory, could see no problem in inviting a convicted criminal and terrorist sympathizer into a packed TV auditorium. Tony Jones? He had no problem in allowing Mallah to broadcast his views to a million viewers? Mark Scott? He compared Mallah, who has never even been threatened with the loss of freedom of speech, with the Charlie Hebdo journalists who sacrificed their lives for it.

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