Our politicians should be the last people to sermonise on morality and standards of behaviour. The NSW government had to employ an ethics advisor to coach MPs on the standards expected of them. And wasn't it a federal minister and his charming wife who tested the strength of his office desk by engaging in coitus. Thank god he didn't perform the act during question time in the house of reps.

Politicians and morality....two words that should never appear in the same sentence.

A good, well thought-out and balanced article. The idea of banning cricket because of the antics of certain cricketers would not go down well with the community.

And who knows - perhaps the actions of the big-brother inmates may be what young people see as the norm or even expect these days. I'm sure that similar, if not more graphic scenes would have been available in the 1960's and 70's if the concept was created then.

Brilliant article...

As usual our "silly" Prime Minister (who the Aussie voting public should endeavour to get "off the air" at first opportunity) and with him most of our politicians (both sides of politics can obviously now be called conservative) have the wrong bull by the horns. It is of course far easier, and almost effortless, to get one show axed...much harder to address the society problem that it stems from. Big Brother is a fairly accurate reflection of Australian society, like it or not, it's true (in fact non-televised Australian society is, in many cases, FAR worse than anything you'll see on TV).

So peoples attitudes need to be 'adjusted'.

We need to re-educate (one of the sexes). Sounds like code to me. Definately a hidden agenda behind that one.

Have to go now, the THOUGHT POLICE are knocking at my door.

bravo, Gemma.
Exactly right.
Moralists, as always, don't care what actually occurs as long as they can pretend everything is respectable.
I believe BB reflects a section of society back to us, as they really are, and it is better we face up to the reality than pretend.
Some years ago i was in a book club with a lot of very successful, middle aged women. One week we read Helen Garner's First Stone about sexual harrassment in a uni college. As we discussed the book, it became clear that not one of the women in the room - and there were about 15 of us - not one, had never been sexually harrassed or assaulted. Some of it was unpleasant but minor, some more serious. for some of us, this was the first time we'd ever spoken of it.
They say you are only as sick as you biggest secret, so perhaps the exposure we see on BB is an indicator of growing health rather than the opposite.

Gemma,
You are female and you as female are about the only one who has it right. The males get it wrong.
Your first words are:
"The recent “alleged” sexual assault-harassment of Camilla,"
So correct. It is alleged. It is only alleged therefore there is no assault harassment of Camilla.
Another female agrees, Communication Minister Helen Coonan did not act against Big Brother or Channel 10.