Misogyny Day. The Prime Minister in question time on October 9, 2012:
I SAY to the Leader of the Opposition, I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. I will not. And the government will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. Not now, not ever. ... Misogyny, sexism, every day from this Leader of the Opposition. Every day in every way, across the time the Leader of the Opposition has sat in that chair and I've sat in this chair, that is all we have heard from him.
Christopher Pyne in question time on Tuesday:
THE Prime Minister answered the question and then she, as an aside, said for some unknown reason, "misogynist Tony is back".
Let's hear from a true expert. Kyle Sandilands on November 22, 2011:
SOME fat slag on news.com.au has already branded (my TV show) a disaster. You can tell by reading the article that she just hates us and has always hated us. What a fat, bitter thing you are. You're deputy editor of an online thing. You've got a nothing job, anyway. You're a piece of shit. This low thing, Alison Stephenson, deputy editor of news.com.au online. You're supposed to be impartial, you little troll. You're a bullshit artist, girl. You should be fired from your job. Your hair's very '90s. And your blouse. You haven't got that much titty to be having that low cut a blouse. Watch your mouth or I'll hunt you down.
Gillard with Sandilands and Jackie O on 2Day FM yesterday:
SANDILANDS: Are you sitting behind the big desk this morning Prime Minister?
Gillard: I'm not behind the big desk right now, Kyle, I'm sorry, but I did want to say good morning to you and to Jackie O and to say we've got to go Easter egg hunting, don't we?
Gillard on Abbott on Misogyny Day:
DOESN'T turn a hair about any of his past statements, doesn't walk into this parliament and apologise to the women of Australia. Doesn't walk into this parliament and apologise to me for the things that have come out of his mouth.
Out of his mouth. Sandilands's first response on July 29, 2009, when a 14-year-old guest revealed she'd been raped when she was only 12:
RIGHT ... is that the only (sexual) experience you've had?
Gillard in an apres-interview tweet to Kyle and Jackie O yesterday:
THANKS for the chat. Can't wait to see Kyle in a bunny suit!
Back to Gillard on Misogyny Day:
WELL, this kind of hypocrisy must not be tolerated.
Dedicated to Ferguson, Crean, Bowen et al. From Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector (1836):
KHLESTAKOV: So, have your patients recovered? There didn't seem that many.
Warden: Since I took over the running of the place ... they've been recovering like flies.
Following on from the last thrilling instalment of Cut & Paste, Gerard Henderson in Media Watch Dog yesterday:
WHAT a Walkley-worthy piece by Laura Tingle in yesterday's Australian Financial Review. It appears that La Tingle wrote an article on the new edition of David Marr's Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott (Black Inc) based merely on the publisher's blurb which was, well, just blurb. As a result, Tingle claimed that the new edition of Political Animal had unearthed copies of correspondence between Tony Abbott and B. A. Santamaria in the late 1980s which are located in the Santamaria Collection in the State Library of Victoria.
In fact, this correspondence was discovered by the Melbourne-based researcher Geoffrey Browne and written up by historians Ross Fitzgerald and Stephen Holt in the front-page splash in The Weekend Australian on 13 October 2012.
The source of the Abbott-Santamaria correspondence is acknowledged by David Marr in the new edition of Political Animal. Maybe La Tingle does not read The Australian.