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by Tory Shepherd

10 Oct 06:00am

Filed under: Julia Gillard, Karate Kid, Parliament, Peter Slipper, Politics, Tony Abbott

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What a day. Gillard rocked, Slipper rolled, and no one came out unscathed.

Clowns to the left, jokers to the right. Pic: Kym Smith

Yesterday will go down as a fascinating collage of gender battles, high rhetoric and sleazy innuendo. Scratch that; outright sleaze. It rollicked all the way from seafood analogies for female genitalia through visceral Parliamentary debate to the pathetic display of disgraced Speaker Peter Slipper stepping down from the chair.

Let’s start with Question Time. There was something in the slapdown that Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivered to Opposition Leader Tony Abbott that had the hum of triumph about it.

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Jane Goodluck says:

06:59pm | 10/10/12

After repeated and quite deliberate distortions of what I said - and did not say - entirely proper to point to these distortions as typical and dishonest tactics. Most of the replies here bear no relation in fact or meaning to what I originally posted. A fine display of collective… Read more »
stephen says:

06:57pm | 10/10/12

I think he did know, but he is frustrated that he is being accused of misogyny, and that he is not PM, (actually, a lady letter-writer to the Oz said the other day that Abbott is chivalrous, and such a quality, she says, is mistaken is this day as aloofness… Read more »

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