- Jul 31, 2011
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Unbelievable. I'm speechless. I am beyond speech!
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/gillard-wins-a-verbal-stoush-and-maybe-an-election-too/
Here are some of the more choice statements the Prime Minister made in response:
“The government is not dying of shame, my father did not die of shame, what the Opposition Leader should be ashamed of is his performance in parliament”
Ouch. Nowhere to hide from that one. And this:
“I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man, I will not. Not now, not ever.”
She also said (and excuse us for not getting some of this precisely word for word as we were caught off guard in a noisy newsroom):
“What i won’t stand for, what I will never stand for is the leader of the opposition peddling a double standard, a standard he has not set for members of his own front bench.”
and:
“The leader of the opposition can do something himself. He can can apologise for standing next to signs saying Ditch the Witch.”
and in a delicious moment:
“Now he is looking at his watch (which Abbott was) because apparently a woman’s spoken too long.”
then, back to the original subject matter:
“This parliament today should reject this motion and the leader of the opposition should think seriously about the role of Australian women in public life and society because we deserve better than this.”
Long story short, what we say today was the PM fired up as never before, with a brilliant (seemingly) off-the-cuff retort to the dumbest, most cynically-worded motion imaginable.
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/gillard-wins-a-verbal-stoush-and-maybe-an-election-too/
Here is what Mr Abbott said:
“I must allude to the vile anatomical references to which this Speaker appears to be addicted in his text message… Should (Gillard) rise in this place now to try and defend the Speaker, she will shame this parliament again… And every day the prime minister stands in this parliament to defend this Speaker will be another day of shame for this parliament, another day of shame for a government which should already have died of shame.’‘
Let’s replay that last line one more time for emphasis, as they often do on talkback radio.
Abbott wants Slipper sacked. So he said:
“And every day the prime minister stands in this parliament to defend this Speaker will be another day of shame for this parliament, another day of shame for a government which should already have died of shame”
Can you believe Tony Abbott used that phrase? Can you believe, after every drop of water that has flowed under the bridge since Jones’ ill-advised speech to the young libs, that the would-be Prime Minister of Australia still thinks it fitting to poke further fun at the death of the sitting Prime Minister’s father. Can anyone believe that?
Here are some of the more choice statements the Prime Minister made in response:
“The government is not dying of shame, my father did not die of shame, what the Opposition Leader should be ashamed of is his performance in parliament”
Ouch. Nowhere to hide from that one. And this:
“I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man, I will not. Not now, not ever.”
She also said (and excuse us for not getting some of this precisely word for word as we were caught off guard in a noisy newsroom):
“What i won’t stand for, what I will never stand for is the leader of the opposition peddling a double standard, a standard he has not set for members of his own front bench.”
and:
“The leader of the opposition can do something himself. He can can apologise for standing next to signs saying Ditch the Witch.”
and in a delicious moment:
“Now he is looking at his watch (which Abbott was) because apparently a woman’s spoken too long.”
then, back to the original subject matter:
“This parliament today should reject this motion and the leader of the opposition should think seriously about the role of Australian women in public life and society because we deserve better than this.”
Long story short, what we say today was the PM fired up as never before, with a brilliant (seemingly) off-the-cuff retort to the dumbest, most cynically-worded motion imaginable.