back to article 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, …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    They are both wankers

    Under definitions 2 and 3.

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

  2. Diogenes

    How long will this ruling last

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

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. Shugyosha
    Facepalm

    SHOCK JOCK IN 'SAYS SHOCKING THINGS' SHOCKER!

    Nothing more to add.

  6. Alan Ferris
    Coat

    Isn't this ruling....

    ... Gerbilist ?

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