Federal Opposition Health Minister, Julia Gillard, has been ejected from parliament for 24 hours, in a fantastic show of hypocrisy and double standards. Gillard called Health Minister, Tony Abbott a “snivelling grub”. When asked to withdraw the comments Gillard replied: “If I have offended grubs I withdraw unconditionally.”
However accurate the sentiments may have been, Gillard, refusing to withdraw the comment “without reservation”, was barred, even though Tony Abbott, our favourite pro-lifer, escaped such treatment after using similar wording when asked to withdraw comments about Labor frontbencher Kelvin Thomson last week.
Perhaps Gillard could have picked up a few hints from Taiwain’s DPP Deputy Wang Shu Hui who attempted to eat a proposition in Taiwan’s parliament that intended to open direct transport links with China. Now that’s conviction.
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