‘Corrosive effect’ of PC culture brought in focus by cartoonist critic Bill Leak

[@bradyryan5105]

Dear Australians, I feel and understand your pain. Here in America, our politicians are PC crazy too

[@yvettemoore71]

Hey hey hey...you have waaaay too many problems to worry about us at this stage!!!! It is the rest of the free world who are watching the nonsense you are living through that need to present a united front and support you anyway we can❤🇦🇺🇺🇲

[@bradyryan5105]

@@yvettemoore71 if only. sadly I think the governments of most developed nations have the same goal.

[@Colby-y9v]

Lol Australia is an ant in terms of corruption & PC nonsense in comparison to the US. The stuff he's talking about here- basic PC stuff like getting offended- is something that has persisted in the US for decades. Corrupt politicians don't just make moves & take power, they have to get bit by bit consistently until they have big business in their pocket. US politicians are in no hurry to take power because they have unlimited term limits ( in Congress, of course).

[@axle.australian.patriot]

Lucky you guys built a massive statue to remind everyone :(

[@michaeljohn9263]

PC in the USA is one thing. Come up to Canada! The politicians up here are full blown super ULTRA left WOKE pieces of garbage!

[@learnenglishwithauntyjeanp1646]

His son is following in his dad's footsteps. To quote Groucho Marx, " If you are unable to laugh at yourself, I am happy to do it for you",

[@ShoshiPlatypus]

@@aleks5405 I agree. Brilliant. I wonder what they would have made of the shenanigans of today? I'm sure Groucho would have come up with one or two choice one-liners. BTW, have you read "Harpo Speaks"? (His autobiography). One of the funniest books I've ever read.

[@ShoshiPlatypus]

@@aleks5405 No problem! Enjoy!

[@johnpatrick1588]

A few years ago a politician in England giving a public speech at a campaign stop was arrested because one person was offended by the politician quoting Winston Churchill. If not for Churchill English would have been replaced with German or even Russian. Ungrateful basds.

[@Samuraid77]

Is the UK just one big beta male or something?

[@AsttoScott]

If it wasn't for Churchill war never would've been declared and none the UK's citizen's would've died. Clearly years of Hollywood propaganda has done a number on you.

[@gato48480]

Dude did you literally sleep through all of your history classes (Although I wouldn’t blame you) but your failure to include the other factors in the beginning of the WWII along with your ignorance is just wow. Churchill did what he had to fucking do otherwise the entirety of Europe would be considered Germany.

[@thomasshakespeare6546]

@@AsttoScott Churchill was not the Prime Minister when ww2 started. It was Chamberlain.

[@avrillee7369]

@@AsttoScott you are the one who requires the lessons in history on the 2nd WW - you certainly seem lost and know very little

[@elduchie68]

I'm missing teeth and once asked a work colleague where the toothpicks were. He handed me a sharpening steel and said "here, use that". I was in hysterics for hours. Yes, I was at my expense, but that was funny AF😅🤣😂 Offensive jokes are always funny and humour is the best way of knowing your alive.

[@elduchie68]

@Gaming Miser I'm more referring to humour in general. My mates and I bantered growing up, and still do today. And one of em even has this thing when we're having a few together and he threatens to bash his wife and she threatens to kill the kids right in front of us. The creativity gets hilarious. Now out of 8-9 of us, 2 of em always get the shits and piss off. The rest of us know they're just giving each other shit. Of course they're not being serious. It's called a joke. It's fun for them and funny to us so we don't give a shit about the 2 mates who just don't get it.

[@axle.australian.patriot]

@Gaming Miser Hear!, Hear!

[@barefootcontessa3112]

@Gaming Miser pretty sure you’re overthinking it mate. Loosen up live a little 🙃

[@humboldthammer]

Epochal Eclipse a CROSS the US April 8th 2024. Jubilee to forgive ALL THAT DEBT 09/23/26 or SOONER. That's when they'll unveil the NEON GAUD. 10/12/26 "You have destroyed yourselves with your war of Gods. Now bow down and worship YOUR BEAST." That's what Xi says.

[@rakeshhubert3031]

Mass migration and destroying our self-sufficiency is not in the national interest.

[@IsThisAvailable550]

Sadly, it happens all over the world. and I'm speaking from the other side of the planet.

[@glabeel]

@@IsThisAvailable550 from Europe? Europe is becoming dead and will become a Islamic state. Our governments are proud about it even and they laugh at us as they think that they still have power and privileges while instead they have nothing to say or do. It is a sad world we live in

[@rakeshhubert3031]

@Deen Over Dunyà from smelly Delhi.

[@O.O.O.K999]

But........but..........it enriches our culture and is our strength - well that's the BS we are fed here in the UK while all around us we see the opposite. The three things that matter most to people, in every country are, apparently, cultural security, economic security and border security. Makes sense doesn't it - but that's why they are destroying each of those to bring about the NWO.

[@warwicklewis8735]

@Deen Over Dunyà we left...stop following us.

[@cynthiajohnson9412]

What can you do with humorless, self-important people? You mock them. Mock them into oblivion.

[@Enonymous99]

Agreed

[@rapscallion9333]

Gillian Triggs.

[@Brommear]

That's how Voltaire became immortal.

[@dangermartin69]

Actually the best course of action is to stop growing food for them. The people that liberals hate so much are the ones growing all their food.

[@Oscarisladad]

100%

[@garyjones5406]

Three words .... DIVIDE AND CONQUER A simple technique to weaken your enemy from the inside out .

[@davidclark9619]

A direct quote from Megadeth song Holy Wars "A country thats divided surely will not stand"

[@jgstargazer]

Gary: Agree, a lot of Americans don't see the motives behind these groups including the present Government that are trying to tear down our country.

[@garyjones5406]

@@jgstargazer America is not alone in that situation. All Western nations are being led down the same path. The old saying "Hard times create good people. , good people then create good times , good times create weak people and weak people then create hard times.....we were too good for too long , our kids will surely know hard times if we don't harden up first.

[@et7100]

Thanks, I have been screaming this for over a year now

[@nevillereimers6336]

Party politics is the weapon used to keep the people divided

[@marclawyer2789]

The quote: 'if you're easily offended, you're easily manipulated' was never truer than today... 🤡🌎

[@AdrianRO1918]

true

[@stevechurch4728]

also they're the one that wants to control everybody else's thoughts and actions, the very reason we need indipendent freedoms, we need the protection from them,they are the very worst threat to freedom, those that demand safe spaces are the threat to be feared the most, they are the tyrant every society should be on the lookout for, the permanent victim, the shrinking violet with the manipulative mind /emotions.using weakness to guilt all into restricting everyday behaviour as threatening and overpowering.

[@samage_yt]

True, conservatives do get offended a lot for some reason

[@AdrianRO1918]

@@samage_yt i think you got the wrong group of people

[@samage_yt]

@@AdrianRO1918 idk man conservatives get really offended over lots of shit, like if you tell a conservative you're pro-choice they will froth at the mouth calling you a child murderer

[@gravitatemortuus1080]

Those who limit speech do not do it for the good of people but there own power.

[@jackcarpenters3759]

yep. it is a trick narcissists use. The have fragile ego and can't handle critisism, it shows them reality when they can only handle delusion.

[@whoarethebrainpigs]

yep,,,,and one of the worst offenders is Rowan Deans employer,,

[@JohnSmith-zo6ir]

Ha, ha. You won't believe this. A non-dating girl fiend of mine was with me when I was shopping for a bed and I was lying on a bed while the sales attendant was showing me a bed that rises at the back when you push a button. I said to my friend that she should get on the bed with me so I could test the button to eject her out of the bed as a joke. The IMMEDIATE reaction from the female sales assistant was to get "offended" on behalf of my girl friend and said in an attacking way that it should be me getting ejected from the bed. My girl friend turned to her and told the sales women not to demean her. She also told her that she never appointed the sales women to get offended on her behalf and that in fact she could speak for herself. She also reminded her that we were good friends and often joked with each other and our banter had nothing to do with her. This retail outlet just lost the sale of a $4,000 bed all because they had hired a feminist who was a professional at taking offence on behalf of other people who don't give a s*it about being politically correct. My girl friend informed the feminist assistant that she (my girl friend) was a strong independent women and could speak for herself. She didn't need a condescending sales assistant getting "offended" on her behalf. We continued our joking and said I was like James Bond with an ejector button in his car to get rid of the chicks he doesn't like. I wonder how many sales that retail outlet lost due to that woke feminist. As they say ... go woke, Go broke.

[@leeturner3750]

Bravo! Excellent!👍🏼

[@GasPipeJimmy]

Name the retailer and the clerk, please.

[@rickmitchell7835]

As a Yank, I'm only now hearing of Mr. Leak. His wit and insight will be sorely missed!

[@ThemMightyPies]

Clearly it wasn't in your case.

[@steelcrown7130]

@@ThemMightyPies Gracious. Classy.

[@davidmarshall3683]

I think I read trigger warning but I didn't know his name. 🤣😅

[@garyjones5406]

Rick , if you can , try to find the speech made by "Sir Leslie Patterson" at Bill Leak's birthday celebration ...Bill also reads the same speech that was partly shown here.

[@deangillard5241]

@@ThemMightyPies What a dick you are.

[@waynerain2372]

Yanks Love U Ozzies. We R in this fight together. Go figure, Americans have to goto Sky News for an honest viewpoint. Blessings.

[@humboldthammer]

Televangelist Zionist Rapture Prophets proclaimed Trump Chosen by God in 2016. Never mind that a Chose One has NEVER been revealed in 1991 years of last days teachings. The ewes in the pews now pretend they are Jews awaiting their WARRIOR MESSIAH. So many deceived, just as Jesus said they would be.

[@CasualBeliever]

Canada checking in. Stay sane, folks.

[@Demogorgon47]

G'day mate! :D Sorry your country is so corrupt you have to come watch our news channels just for the news. But you got some fair weathered friends over here who have your back! This PC bullshit can get'a'da fuck out of here!

[@lindakarner1430]

Another Yank who turns in to Sky News Aus!!! (or is it "Oz?")

[@Demogorgon47]

@@lindakarner1430 It's Aus. Hahahaha and yeah so you've noticed it too huh? The amount of yanks tuning into Sky News is unprecedented. Makes sense considering American news has turned to propagandistic bull dinken.

[@yvettemoore71]

I think we're pretty safe from alien invasion at this stage...I assume they're looking for "intelligent life" on other planets...

[@violinplayer3518]

😂😂

[@LeeroyPorkins]

To Serve Man

[@DieFlabbergast]

I still waiting for them to discover intelligent life on Earth.

[@alancadieux2984]

From the looks of things "they" are hiding inside the bodies of the liberal leftists. Invasion...

[@yvettemoore71]

@@DieFlabbergast and that is my point...maybe they came, they saw and they put their spaceship into HYPER SPEED REVERSE from fear of being contaminated by WOKETY WOKE WOKE PEOPLE 🤣🤣

[@johnpatrick1588]

Just amazing there are humans just looking for ways to be offended and miserable. Some way to live.

[@nativecenturion5411]

political correctness has always been a commie tool for silencing the sheep

[@runnininthe80s84]

These are some dark days

[@yvettemoore71]

Yep...well I am a v!ct!m of my wh!te thieving, convict ancestors from Ireland...TRY 50 YEARS IN THE AUSTRALIAN SUN WITH MY SKIN AND THEN TELL ME ALL ABOUT MY PR!VL€DGE 🤣🤣🤣

[@zachcarter3186]

Yup. Like a white man saying nigrr and everyone losing their shit

[@whitemale6227]

They are doing it to implement communism in everything, not to protect their feelings. Its a power grab to construct a totallitarian society and we are nearly there allready.

[@LynxSouth]

We need more people like Bill Leak. I wish I'd heard of him sooner here in the US. Well done, Australia.

[@ralphjane2233]

Life is to short to not be able to laugh at yourself

[@Super_Mario128]

bob Connelly

[@stevenbulmer6424]

“To” is too short 😁

[@misfit2022]

“Bugger that” Indeed. Comedy is disappearing fast as the woke brigade have no sense of humour.

[@golfbulldog]

The ANZAC day cartoon at the end is just spot on... so simple, so powerful. Thank you Australia, New Zealand and all empire/commonwealth troops for service to Britain, Europe and civilisation. A grateful Brit. Time to stand together again.

[@noelgibson5956]

Human rights commission need to set up an office in China........ they'd be kept very busy. Their talent and vigour is totally wasted here!

[@sillyoldbastard3280]

They'd have great pleasure sending non compliant persons to the gulag

[@reitsound3941]

China 19 happy anniversary to all . How they accomplished it so perfect is a mystery .

[@Yoshi278]

Remember when Australia was constantly committing human rights violations? Oh wait you mean we are still doing it? Epic.

[@martinfidel7086]

Clearly you have never been to China, some of the things you'd be amazed at, like the fact everyone has a job, the streets are power washed and swept on a regular basis, youngsters respect their elders, ok so the food is interesting, but in the main China and the Chinese are doing a much better job than the west ! but the media lies to us and makes out that China is a nasty place to live, its bullshit and you really shouldn't believe it

[@sillyoldbastard3280]

@@martinfidel7086 You don't know what your talking about. I built a lot of the Telco infrastructure over there and spent a lot of time in country. It is all a facade and once you get out of the the tourist areas it turns into a shithole. Greenies would have heart failure seeing what they do. They literally bulldose mountains to build factories. It is an ecological disaster.

[@michaelhoward5333]

Like erosion itself, it takes a long time to do its work and bring things down. The same is happening to everyday morals and values. Thank you Sky Australia for your brilliant show. The fight is real.

[@AndrooUK]

No, PC erosion speeds up as it erodes society.

[@Morbid_Alice]

Deep and moving. People have fired shots at laughter. Lacking the ability to joke and laugh will eventually rot humanity faster than an acidic reactions.

[@jfilm7466]

Driving through Australia and New Zealand and seeing all the monuments to those who gave their lives for our freedom. It saddens us to see what is happening now. We salute you.

[@kevinstreet5709]

The world is a poorer place without this man

[@Hitman-ds1ei]

The lunatics are running the asylum!!

[@djmill]

Because they are being allowed to. :-/

[@gravitatemortuus1080]

@@djmill At gun point, those who seek power are not allowed to do it they take it by force.

[@jacquelineking5783]

That implies we still have an asylum. They burnt it down and now are working on burning everything else down.

[@brianallwood1330]

As a young bloke who grew up in Australia it saddens me to see the decline of the open society that made me the man, imperfect in many ways, I am today. The "Liberals and Conservatives" Wtf did all the people go down this American rabbit hole??

[@AndrooUK]

When societies have no wars to be drafted into or worried about, and their economies are strong, then social decay sets in. People are bored and looking for problems where none exist.

[@leeturner3750]

WEF NW 0 UN The Great Reset Now THERE’S some REAL PROBLEMS COMING!!!

[@davout71]

In New Zealand the only cartoonists left in the paper are very woke so very boring as they are unable to critic half of the potential humour around us.

[@Slynsmiley]

Yeah and we have the very unfunny Cathy Wilcox on this side of the Ditch.

[@victorgomes7585]

Not just in NZ. The same woke, virtue signaling, political correctness is becoming pervasive in western societies.

[@miakyriacou8456]

New Zeelander Barry Smith was right. He wrote book Warning... Has anyone read the book?

[@inspectorgeneral9175]

@You Tube Donald Trumps library was robbed last night.... both books were taken!!!... The really sad thing is he hadn't finished coloring in one of them!

[@inspectorgeneral9175]

Donald Trumps library was robbed last night.... both books were taken!!!... The really sad thing is he hadn't finished coloring in one of them!

[@dustyhedger380]

One has to remember this is why history is no longer taught , because one would realize that the road to hell is paved by people who thought they had good intentions .

[@jakeg1421]

BLOODY BRILLIANT THANKS FOR POSTING THIS PART OF YOU WONDERFUL PROGRAMME, real, true journalism alive on Sky Australia 🤩

[@pete2fox]

With such nostalgia do I remember the freedom to laugh and tell jokes.

[@TheAuntieBa]

This ‘Outsider’ Yank is with you, Aussies, and I’m off to get the book. I believe I will like Bill Leak. Thanks for fighting for MY right to free speech, too.

[@thomaselliott573]

Many people of Leak's age have gone down the same path as him. I lived down the road from him and grew up in the same era. It was a very beautiful and blue collar area. A wonderful place to grow up. Most of the younger left leaning workers from those days protested for the environment and green causes and against a pretty far right Liberal party. The difference was the environment was not connected to a whole range of extreme baseless other platforms in the way it is now. The left became communist and therefore, autocratic, which was the last thing we believed in. Australia may have suffered from a slight intellectual deficit back then, but it was a hell of a lot more genuine and enjoyable than it is now. It was a paradise, whereas now it has become a shithole, sheerly thanks to political nobodies being in power and the extreme PC brigade who want to become more extreme and paranoid by the minute.

[@electrolytics]

"Most of the younger left leaning workers from those days protested for the environment and green causes and against a pretty far right Liberal party." Well there you go. This crap we're going through today didn't materialize out of nowhere. I'm in the US, but it's the same thing. Looking back somewhat fondly at the kernel of a social-political revolution and trying to separate it from what's going on today is disingenuous. There were plenty of leaders and pundits "back in the day" that warned of the repercussions. Plenty of them! They all slowly got cancelled, voted out and wiped out as being out of touch, anachronistic dinosaurs.

[@thebeanymac]

"Way mad props" to the bloke coughing and clearing his throat; and, if I might add: our dead are also our duty to remember for their sacrifice, and _that_ is our authority _to_ remember them.

[@humboldthammer]

Borrow + Bomb = the False Profit we still follow today since 2001, when that Born Again Christian President saw and Angel riding a whirlwind.. Jesus NEVER taught war. Matthew 5: 44-48. But we wage war in the Name of God. Matthew 7: 21-23. God vs God is Next. IS I vs I AM.

[@CutterDriftwood]

It's SO satisfying to hear the disease of wokism be pointed out by someone so brilliant for exactly what it is!!

[@SydBarrettsGhost]

As we all know in any totalitarian state humor is the 1st thing to go. Just look at the USSR and China today ...... Not exactly bastions of cutting edge humor

[@AdrianRO1918]

so true

[@Alex462047]

The USSR doesn't exist any more, but, even when it did, official humour might have been heavy duty, but Soviet kitchen humour was as dry, subtle and cutting as any I've ever heard. The best of Russian humour continues to be today.

[@whoarethebrainpigs]

dont think the Chinese were ever up for a joke ,,,,very dour lot,,

[@SydBarrettsGhost]

@@Alex462047 I have some Russian friends.....Great sense of humor. My point was under the Communist USSR any political humor ended you up in a gulag. Same goes for China today

[@pietrayday9915]

@@Alex462047 - Exactly what I was thinking: those living under the Soviet government might have had to keep their humour subtle and low-key, but that humour was very funny, and right on the target of those who would have disapproved of it the most. One suspects that winning the small victories of finding ways to laugh at the Soviet government was what helped keep the people's morale and sanity going at the lowest points in the history of the USSR - there is, maybe, a lesson there for everyone! Keep laughing, even - especially - when humour is "politically incorrect"!

[@Wolfsschanze99]

Great Story Ro, cant believe its been 4 years already, only feels like yesterday.

[@williamdowden4494]

Lest we forget. Unfortunately it looks as though we have.

[@stephen2497]

Not all off us. Some will never forget.

[@wongnaichungrd]

I see Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull were there, my my how things have changed since he was rightly dumped.

[@garyjones5406]

Eventually, every arse gets wiped once you catch the scent.

[@Herbert12864]

@@garyjones5406 hopefully sky news is next

[@garyjones5406]

@@Herbert12864a little truth stings but you'll get used to it Hugh.

[@rosyorose1061]

'The dunny door of social media'.....Perfect description of Twitter!😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@cincin4515]

Yes. I'm claiming that one for myself.

[@oxigenarian9763]

And all this time I thought there were no real conservatives in Australia! :) Now I feel a real connection with those of you in the Land Down Under whose courage hastens you to wear the Truth as a badge of honor at a time when it's needed the most. Well done tribute to this man and his commentaries.

[@chrisyorke6175]

What do other comedians say? "All comedy is critical". "Political correctness can lead to an Orwellian nightmare." - John Cleese, and Mel Brookes, Oscar winner: "our stupidly politically correct society is the death of comedy". Yes, the problem is international.

[@stevemartin6042]

Pc is intended to produce a nightmare world.

[@petergambier]

If you start at a point of uncertainty. The pen is mightier than the sword which is why he was such a threat to the PC but the truth always hurts. Great kudos to Bill that he had a fatwa out on him, and as a cartoonist in England Bill had a great ink line and style. Best wishes and RIP Bill.

[@LeeRaldar]

Political correctness, can't laugh Hate speech legislation, can't get angry. Guess all there is left to do is cry.

[@credenza1]

The Human Rights Commission is driven by one impulse - to drive its elitist high heel onto the throat of the singing bird.

[@josethottumkal]

Uniquely intelligent comment

[@slewone4905]

I am scared. I am horrified seeing it in Canada, and now I hear it's in Australia.

[@Pico_lo_do_sho_no_do]

Bill hicks: "comedy is the last bastion of free speech"

[@humboldthammer]

10/12/26 "You have destroyed yourselves with your war of Gods. Now bow down and worship YOUR BEAST." That's what Xi says.

[@hollowdog9049]

Political correctness eventually destroys everything it touches....

[@raychambers3646]

Offence is not given offence is taken!

[@Antipodean33]

I remember his book launch with Bazza Humphries, oh man that was a shit storm of laughs and digs at this PC BS we see everywhere today. It reminded me of the Australia I grew up in, brutal honesty and wickedly funny

[@stephenchristian6231]

"Starting at the point of absurdity". How blissfully delisious.

[@davidschmidt6013]

Oh My God Dear Sky News Australia, I've never cried before while typing a comment to you folks. But that pic of the man on the soapbox being confronted by an idiot and the statue responding, (and thank you for reminding me of his noble title of 'digger') literally moved me in a way that few things have in YEARS. Not only was it a masterpiece of a drawing, but it speaks to people in BOTH our nations who cherish freedom in ALL its forms, and whose nations were fortunate enough to have had the men who willingly gave their all to defend it. My family (and I'm sure many of yours) was represented by that statue, as some of my family were taken in WWII, 2 in Germany, 1 in the Pacific. I immediately 'screenshotted' it, and will damn sure save it and spread it. I titled it (for my HDD) simply 'Bill Leak'. I may have seen this gentleman's work previously without knowing his background/origins etc, but I can see I have a new research project ahead of me, one which I will GLADLY begin (as soon as I finish this beer). I have commented on your channel many times previously, and will continue to do so. Your channel is EXCELLENT, and I am VERY grateful for the work you folks do, and in the honest and unbiased way in which you present the information you amass. That is also why you have SO many loyal 'Yank' supporters. We CERTAINLY do NOT listen to, or follow, the BBC, as they are rightly perceived to be part of the 'leftist mob media', and nothing more than a leftist sell-out organization, which we abhor in the states. But YOUR channel is GREATLY respected and followed. A few (more local) things may go over our heads, but unless one is from the 'back of Bourke' we can usually figure it out. That being said, we grieve with you over your EXACT same problems...leftists who no longer cherish or seek to uphold their country's principal values and traditions (the whole 'cancel ANZAC day' thing is an utter disgrace) and seek to change by destructive means what they cannot appreciate. Best of luck with those traitorous, seditious, ungrateful bastards. SO...Thank you, MORE THAN I CAN SAY, for including that AMAZING ARTWORK in your piece today. It was appreciated far more widely than you may have expected, but which I suspect Mr. Leak may have. From the short clip, he seemed like a very 'sharp' gentleman. May all good things come to all of you.

[@leeturner3750]

Thanks yanks 👍🏼😉

[@jean-marcandjoshua-petsjournal]

A legend and amazing Australian lost to a destructive culture

[@adamwest5625]

That man on the soapbox looks eerily similar to Pierce Morgan leaving Good Morning Britain for exercising his right to free speech only for the left to screech and reeeeeeee to try and silence him.

[@mattevans4377]

You mean Run Away Morgan? Because that's what he did. He didn't force them to fire him, he ran off. If he won't stand up for his own beliefs, who will?

[@ferrumignis]

@@mattevans4377 _"he didn't force them to fire him"_ Why would you even say that? Of course he didn't force them to fire him, all he did was point out the obvious.

[@mattevans4377]

@@ferrumignis If he hadn't quit, they would have fired him. He did their job of silencing him for them.

[@tomainsley4496]

More like Seth Rogan

[@peterk2455]

What are the odds it was all a con? Morgan 'quitting' to generate publicity for his new show, on the same network.

[@jaysonbull1853]

As a pommy I look to Australia because I am a man, white, working class(worried how I can eat properly tomorrow) and middle aged no pension, earned enough to live to this day, not beyond. Apparently I'm the demon spawn doesn't help being single (51)automatically a horrible person. Please SKY AUSTRALIA BE MY BEACON IN THIS MAELSTROM OF AMBIVALENCE. PLEASE, this is not a waking. Call. West Yorkshire Halifax.

[@johngeorgearcher]

It's NOT your last tango in Halifax, just yet! Greetings from your Australian cousins. 🇦🇺🍻🇬🇧

[@jaysonbull1853]

@AKUJIRULE you'll get there. 🤣

[@jaysonbull1853]

@@johngeorgearcher pubs don't open while 12th April, I'm surrounded by empty tins, don't get me wrong I enjoyed every one. 😊

[@patriciadunmore9767]

Johannes is definitely a chip off the old block. Bill Leak is sorely missed.

[@handynothandsome261]

Thank you for this wonderful eulogy of Bill Leak. I never had the privilege to meet him, but I can tell he was more American than many of my fellow citizens (and virtually ALL of the American media talking-heads).

[@albatross5466]

"Political correctness is a poison that attacks the sense of humor." That is perfect.

[@WiltshireBornandBred]

Seeing this short video clip of the man, makes me feel sad, that I never knew him. I will buy his book to find out more

[@barefootcontessa3112]

Moving tribute to a great man and oh so true. If they destroy humour then there really is nothing left.

[@johanvanzyl8479]

Appreciate your program. Please accept that proper journalism is rare and you are our last line of defence

[@PaulMann8666]

Thank God for Sky Australia. A place for us poor poms to retreat to for a sanity recharge. Before going back out to deal with the unbelievably grotesque absurdity that has taken such a grip over Britain. We have talk Radio, LBC, The Spectator and its great new TV channel. But it is great to know that common sense and respect for facts and reason are alive in Australia too.

[@azmanabdula]

Mate this is one news outlet If I were you I wouldnt look at ABC/SBS/Channel 7/9/10 Might ruin your dreams Just stand your round mate and keep applying logic At least the future will look kindly on you -A concerned Aussie

[@herbertvonsauerkrautunterh2513]

Human rights means rights for all humans. Whether left or right. That includes the right to offend..

[@kerrylogan2978]

As we contemplate the work and courage put forth by men and women of extraordinary valor who feared not to express the truth in such a bold way as not to be ignored, we marvel at the lack of humility, lack of kindness and the outright hatred for ones fellowman that has taken just one generation to foster. Matthew 24:10-12 10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

[@xEvan117x]

What a wake up call. Great reciting!

[@crippyandkaatje]

As an American immigrant, I watch Sky News for my sanity! Keep up the great work 😃

[@lcg5790]

Great praise for a well loved man. That last cartoon sure looks like Piers Morgan on the soapbox and the meaning is just as apt.

[@slyaspie4934]

Wow that picture at the end (and thumbnail) is actually pretty powerful 👍👍

[@childebrand1]

There is no greater country for deep-ripping humour than Australia.

[@kangurski]

Absolutely brilliant piece of journalism. Bravo!

[@georgemoylan7455]

When! Oh when! Are we going to get rid of the PC brigade once and for all?

[@bethhutch7625]

Maybe when Jesus returns.

[@leeturner3750]

@@bethhutch7625 wtf is he WAITING FOR?!?!?!? How BAD do things have to BE?!?!?

[@neilscott9281]

We must remember & never forget. Just right. We ought to run with the baton that they previously, bravely picked up, in honour of them.

[@ramalama9030]

To the people trying desperately trying to re-write history......one day you will be erased from the books of history!

[@youbigtubership]

Bill had a genius for friendship- the glue of society.

[@jeffreymorris4827]

I painted my computer black so it would run faster But now it doesn't work 🚬💣👽💩🚲🎣🇺🇸

[@djmill]

You don't hear jokes like this in the main stream any more. The uber-offended freaks would be up in arms calling for lives to be cancelled. It's easier just to laugh.

[@humboldthammer]

I paid my cable provider twice as much money seeking he same thing . . .not only is it slower, but the sales guys keep calling, trying to sell me FASTER STILL. Same thing happened when I signed up for the "Do Not Call" list. I get 100 robo-calls a month, now.

[@humboldthammer]

@@djmill Outraged, Furious, Angered, Steaming, Fuming, Boiling, BS makes Scents. Bias makes Cents, even when it doesn't make Sense. See also Be us and Buy us. "THIS" is EweToo(b) where "baaa'd!' sells. Be sure to check auto-sheep. I mean, ship. The economy needs ewes.

[@jeffreymorris4827]

@@humboldthammer humboldt az?

[@humboldthammer]

@@jeffreymorris4827 CA. It's a County and a Bay.

[@rosssmith211]

To me this news show , this is the Main stream media . Thank you

[@sadwingsraging3044]

Someone explain to me how taking someone's job _isn't_ taking their life........

[@humboldthammer]

This may be a poor example, but two weeks ago, a hydraulic log pusher, took my friend's foot (and his ankle, too) and his job . . . but not his life.

[@leeturner3750]

@@humboldthammer ouch 😱I hope he’s doing well today, best wishes for a strong recovery!

[@humboldthammer]

@@leeturner3750 Just as the pandemic shut down began, another friend woke up paralyzed from the waist down. After a year, he can almost walk with a walker, and has much of his bowel control back. I called him the other day, and he confessed that he had just finished his morning cry, and that his girlfriend of nine years had kicked him out. The other guy is still in the hospital.

[@mikkelnpetersen]

It's better to die laughing, than to live your entire life, never smiling even once.

[@Williameagleblanket]

There is a pandemic of thin skin that seems to grow more everyday. More and more people are affected by thin skin it seems. There is no cure. 😱

[@ShoshiPlatypus]

They try to protect their thin skins by putting face muzzles on. It doesn't work, of course, but it sure does identify who they are.

[@koolkevin2357]

Remember, the easier they are to offend the easier they are to manipulate. Goes both ways.

[@preppercoops741]

I am a proud Australian who would be willing to die to maintain our three, concreted democratic rights. I am though, ashamed by some of our weak, and infected leaders, who have lost all sense of objectivity, of which each promises to be voted into public office in the first place. Thankfully, Australia is one of the few countries who are fighting back, by either getting active in contacting their Ministers and Senators directly, and with increasing opposition protests against the current madness, whilst we still can. Increasing numbers of people, through accurate and objective reporting such as from Sky, NewsMax, NTD and the Epoch Times, have also proceeded to discover a truth from their own due diligences. If only one positive unintended consequence which has come out of this C-19 fiasco, is that jobkeeper and lockdowns, have allowed those with their senses switched on, a lot of time to reflect, learn and pursue the truth. People are waking up and becoming enlightened. As per economist John Adams submission to the Parliament, people are losing faith in their police forces, and have tragically lost trust in their own Govts two party system. Gerald Celente nailed it. Revolutions will increase with the younger, and the development of independent parties, will be a death blow, to a system of bipartisan policies of the old 2 party system, which is outdated, smug, out of touch, stale and over bloated. Keep the faith people. Keep the faith and get active with the same game being played against you.

[@neilphelan145]

Rest In Peace Bill. Being from the USA I didnt know about you. When I saw the cartoon about the freedom to speak it moved me deeply. Thank you for all that you did to awaken people's minds. 🙏👍

[@wiggiag]

We Chinese, we make joke, we put wokeness in your Coke!

[@martyshannon7542]

Hahaha !!!!!!! Cream of Some Young Guy !!!!!! 80's humor.

[@scot60]

If Thomas Nast were alive today not only would he be cancelled but he’d be put in prison

[@terminatedaccount8750]

It's the physical chemistry of life... *Human Behavioral Biology Stanford 25 videos playlist* ... *Anthropology Yale 31 videos playlist* ...

[@johnallen7807]

To my shame I confess that I had never heard of him but I fully support his (and your) views on the "PC" problem. I fear it as bad, if not worse in the UK, we even had a police force (or "service", "force" is too military!) that hired a bill board van to drive around with the message "It is an offence to give offence". Apart from being legally wrong and indeed they very rapidly had to apologise and withdraw it, what kind of police leaders have we got that could even think that was a "good idea"? To paraphrase, I think Voltaire's biographer "I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it". Government should remember they are the servants of the people not their masters.

[@Blahem1]

What's green and hard? A frog with a flip knife.

[@SuperParatech]

LOL

[@MrWheelright]

you scared me,i thought you meant a greenie with a brain

[@russellparratt9859]

A Greens politician after rigor mortis has set in. 😁👍🎉

[@johnkeller6063]

I've and we've seen his work and loved them here in the US. May he rip

[@ausbare140]

What is freedom?

[@gravitatemortuus1080]

Its not being controlled by others on items that do not impact them. In other words you won't notice you lost freedom until you lose the ability to talk.

[@TraditionalAnglican]

It’s something we don’t have anymore.

[@bnbwhitezombie]

One by one, those who recognize and defend common sense are passing away. RIP.

[@chrisnieto5547]

A University student in Scotland was banned from her student union last week for writing the words Rule Britania on a forum.

[@leeturner3750]

Oh pathetic 😶

[@dbenbow1]

Loved Bill Leak. Disgusting what the HRC did to him!

[@jacquiliddell1811]

Australia you must stand up for your rights. I would have loved to have met him, he was right up my street. Please don’t forsake the thousands that gave their lives to give us freedom of speech

[@jackfrost2146]

The last line gave me goosebumps...

[@ludvykjahn5955]

Thanks for that great tribute and the connotations > the loss of freedom, the tyranny that is coming, no, it's here isn't it, thank you to the Sky people and Rowan for standing up.

[@Stevenowski]

Cartoon is @ 8:56 Screenshot it, and share!🇺🇸

[@garlandtx10]

How is it that as an American I have to look at an Australian news company to find unbiased outlooks on things

[@nicak777alex9]

The Human Rights association: An association which's mission is to condemn murdered people because they say something the found offensive.

[@marieamdg333]

Brilliant, Rowan. May his soul rest in peace.

[@peterlamont647]

XD wow! as a "yank" I never heard of this guy...but I already love him. BUGGER THAT! I love you conservative aussies!!!! You're my buddies and we're all in this together! RIP Bill Leak. We've lost so many great conservatives lately...at probably the worst time possible. Here is hoping they are up there helping us out.

[@allenjenkins7947]

"Scrawled on the dunny door of social media" sums it up so well.

[@darcraven2496]

And us Canadians now have to deal with Merkle as well as Trudeau.

[@redskypreparedness2319]

What a brilliant man not only Australia lost, but the free world lost. Condolences from an American who is locking arms with our God fearing conservative mates!

[@carlnapp4412]

When arseholes start to tell what is good and what is bad, the nation's sanity is at risk! q.e.d.