Protesters target Education Minister Christopher Pyne on set of ABC's Q&A program

Last night i was watching the ABC program Q&A.

Education Minister Christopher Pyne was the target of a sustained and roudy protest on the set of the ABC's Q&A program.The program began with Mr Pyne being asked a number of questions about the Government's proposals to deregulate university funding and suggestions that a number of youth training programs would be cut.
Listening intently to the questions by every day Australian youths, I think the questions were deep and it shows a very good understanding our youth have on the situations they are potentially facing once the budget is released next week. They get it! As for the answers by the minister Christopher Pyne, often he was seen as getting frustrated especially when one youth quoted him and with the ministers response, the youth outright called him a liar.

I have to say as a mother, I can totally understand why our youth are so smart these days as we teach them the real deal, none of the fancy dance around the subject stuff like most politicians do. In Australia we see straight through the talk.

In a bid to give the Education Minister a "breather", host Tony Jones invited former parliamentary speaker Anna Bourke to answer one of the audience questions first.
As she began her answer, a group of at least 15 protesters unfurled a banner from the balcony behind the panellists while chanting slogans.

At first the banner was upside down which made the panel laugh yet this group of youths were on a mission and there was no stopping them. As the panel sat there unable to do a single thing, they cut to a pre recorded tape of a calming song by an Australian music artist.

I'm not saying I condone the behavior of the protesters however, more that they seized the opportunity to be heard by the Australian people which indeed they did.

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