She is well educated, and articulates her perspectives well, but does that make her a leader? Media, please stop making “leaders”, its for the people to say.

Now if the Pistorius case is important news surely then so is the massive protest conducted in freezing conditions in Washington because this latter event has a very real bearing on the future of our civilization, threatened as it is by runaway climate change.

So it’s not only the Marcia Langton thing that discredits the ABC it’s basically everything.

What we have in Australia may not be censorship of the dictatorial type as in say, China but it’s censorship nonetheless. Corporate censorship you could call it.

I happen to find Langton’s strange rants about people who want to protect the country to be bizarre in the extreme.

It is only the Greens working with the owners of the land to prevent the rape of it.,

But anyone who comments here should first (1) disclose if they are a public servant, pensioners or recipient of any tax rebates (hence a recipient of mining income), and (2) check their superannuation account or retirement fund for all its sources of income. This would include any property which has increased in value due to the mining boom. Otherwise, keep quiet. For me its (2) and (1 – “mature aged worker rebate”)

I haven’t done the research, but do I recall rightly some years ago, when a group of Indigenous traditional land owners was divided over whether to agree to particular deal, it turned out that the money the mining companies were offering was a pittance over the life of the agreement, and the employment opportunities feeble at best.

I thought her statements about greenies, hippies, whatever she called them, and the supposed contempt Indigenous people feel for them, were bizarre.

If the Boyer lectures are to occupy the lofty position the ABC wants for them (and Australia should have such things), it’s in the ABC’s interest to ensure issues like this are dealt with. Though I don’t imagine Prof. Langton is easily told anything.