Grim you sure that "jiggling" budgie smugglers won't do the trick to grab some votes ?

(Suzie has conferred an unerasable image)

The idea of any politician doing a photoshoot in support of body image issues should be banned immediately. :)

Grim good to see some humour. Me wearing armani is about as likely as wearing a pair of Manolo Blahnik shoes.

Pynchme, come on!
I wouldn't mind betting that, like the rest of us Australian women, you have been secretly scouring the women's and sports magazines for more close-up images of the Abbott's equipment encased in small, barely there speedo clothing?
Personally, I live for the day! :)

Pynchme, "I wonder if a bloke's social worth, especially as a politician, was judged primarily on looks who the best and worst representatives would be."

Are you suggesting that Kate Ellis was elected and won her ministry through looks alone?

What about their Excellencies Ms Quentin Bryce AC and Mr Michael Bryce AM AE, because both of them are trim and very well dressed and certainly not from Target. Did Quentin get her job through looks alone and is her very lean figure to be construed as a poor example of 'body image' for other women? There are many, many very successful women around who happen to take pride in their appearance, did they all get their jobs primarily because of their looks?

However quite apart from that and this is moving away from Kate Ellis, precisely where is the feminist 'problem' - apart from the looney, self-serving beliefs and spite of radical feminists maybe - in men and women benefiting from their appearance and presentation? Some were luckier with intellect, some had genes that gave them more pleasant features and others might have done well in both. However, most have to work at both, many successfully and full credit to them.

Cornflower, you have captured clearly the perverted Marxism that underlies so much Feminist cant. It's not enough for them to have equal opportunity to make the most of what they have, they demand that anyone who is better equipped to do well should be handicapped. It'd be quite sad if it weren't so perniciously intrusive and destructive.