Wanna call Barnaby Joyce a w**ker / gerbil on radio? FINE, says ACMA

It's official: Australians can call their elected representatives “wankers” on air, as long as they mean it as a term of abuse rather than a literal description of their sexual activity. That's the conclusion of an investigation by the Australian Communications and Media Authority, which as well as managing spectrum licenses, …

[Anonymous Coward]

They are both wankers

Under definitions 2 and 3.

As for definition 1, I have no interest in what they do.

[Diogenes]

How long will this ruling last

if people ring ACMA and call them wankers (using defn 2)

[Jim Birch]

Wanker, clown, whatever...

Barnaby appears to be playing the time warp game where "clown" is is a good old form of abuse but "wanker" is a ghastly new sexual term that crosses some mysterious boundary of decency. Maybe in parliament, Barnaby, but out here things have moved on. You missed it by about 40 years.

[MikeGale]

Somebody has to do it.

Purely as a friendly and tongue in cheek term of abuse the following are wankers and gerbils:

Kyle Sandilands

Mr Chris Chapman, ACMA Chair

Mr Richard Bean, ACMA Deputy Chair

Mr James Cameron, Full-time Member

Miss Louise Benjamin, Part-time Member

Mrs Rosemary Sinclair, Part-time Member

Ms Anita Jacoby, Part-time Member

Mr Rod Sims, Associate Member

[Shugyosha]

SHOCK JOCK IN 'SAYS SHOCKING THINGS' SHOCKER!

Nothing more to add.

[Alan Ferris]

Isn't this ruling....

... Gerbilist ?