Dear csteele,

I cannot tell a lie.

It was the others.

Did Tony Abbott bait the PM about her father following her fathers death?

I heard the bit where Alan Jones used her fathers death in bad taste at a meeting which the PM was not at and in the normal course of events was unlikely to hear about but didn't hear of Abbott "baiting" the PM over her fathers death. Alan Jones comments were in bad taste but hardly viable as baiting the PM and as I recall Abbott made it clear that he did not support Jones comments.

When did Abbott bait the PM over her fathers death and what were the details?

R0bert

Dear R0bert

He did. It was on TV.

Abbott is his own worst enemy and his biggest problem is that he cannot keep his mouth shut.

Mr Opinion do you have any more detail?

R0bert

Some dishonestly claim that Abbott made the comment. He didn't:

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."

Feminist and trained lawyer Julia Gillard deliberately introduced her dead father to score a political king hit:

"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"

Then Gillard went to with what was obviously a prepared speech to sledge with 'sexism' and 'misogyny'.

It was a shameful, crafted exercise to defend Slipper.

Thanks onthebeach.

Yes, I think that was what I saw on TV.