Simon Sheikh Collapses On Q&A

Simon Sheikh Collapse on Live Tv
GETUP director Simon Sheikh has collapsed on the ABC's Q&A program having suffered an apparent seizure.

Mr Sheikh slumped forward as panellists discussed the carbon tax last night, with his head making an audible thud on the desk.

Climate Change Minister Greg Combet was answering a question on the carbon tax when he gave a confused look in Mr Sheikh's direction.

"I'm not quite sure what Simon's doing there. Is he okay? I think... he's not okay. Simon is not okay," he said.

Mr Combet and members of the show's crew rushed towards Mr Sheikh.

He regained a degree of consciousness and said "sorry, I just fainted", before he was helped backstage.

Q&A host Tony Jones said a few minutes later that Mr Sheikh had suffered a seizure and had been taken for a checkup.

Mr Sheikh's wife, Anna Rose tweeted soon after: "Thanks everyone for your concern for Simon. Ambulance has just arrived".

Mr Sheikh later took to Twitter from hospital.

"For those watching Q&A sorry I couldn't stay - I'm in hospital, thanks for all your support".

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[AdmiralBlake]

"simon will be taken care of out back", does that mean theyre going to shoot him?

[BCT071]

Another foul mouthed retard from the uneducated right of politics.

You've already debunked your own position by mentioning the compensation.

You've got nothing here stupid.

Just alot of anger,no doubt amplified by too much exposure to the likes of Alan Jones,Andrew bolt and the Murdoch press.

Take a deep breath,go for a walk and try to clear your tiny mind.

It's full of rhetorical shit :)

[MrBibi86]

why couldn't you just die!

[chelsearule647]

Why couldn't he just get-up?

[chelsearule647]

I can't blame her for not helping him lol. Get up isn't exactly pro-liberal.....

[cobainmatrix]

Sophie Mirabella is a disgrace to the human race but then she works for the LNP and therefore detests 'the great unwashed'. This is like a metaphor for Aussie politics. Only the Labor guy came to the rescue. What a different outcome there would have been if it was Rupert Murdoch doing the fainting!

[Kilox1000]

And it doesn't matter, since you are both. 

[AndreasFalk8]

i'd rather be an asshole behind the computer than a coward

[Kilox1000]

Wow...you don't have to be an asshole hiding behind your computer screen. She was probably terrified.

[lisa-fatima melly]

Words speaks for it's self the type of person you are showing to everyone.............. By the way it's not Paki it's Pakistani...

[Rory Pond]

Sophie Mirabella for you.

[Deon S]

Too many bomb fumes