That should be 'foot' not 'fault'.

Foxy, I am surprised you missed all the hullabaloo about the menu.
One of the kitchen staff apologised on TV about it all.
You never seem to miss anything, perhaps you were on holidays or something.

It was made up as a joke amongst the staff and was not the menu used
for the dinner. When someone that was at the dinner said he never saw
it he was called a liar.

Did you not realise that it had been suddenly dropped by the government
and the media ?

Onthebeach, still trying to put words in my mouth?
Did you not read what I wrote above?

I did say anyone saying that sort of language should be thrown out of politics.

No mention of misogyny at all as far as I can see.
Are you looking for an argument perhaps?
I can't be bothered actually...

yep progressive allows you to photo kids nude and call it art. If you are not a 'progressive ' it is child porn. 'Progresives' see their self titles as a licence to be regressive and base.

Suseonline,

Rather than making unfounded allegations about people putting words into your mouth you should be concerned about your nose growing.

What I posted was, "No surprises later that it is the defensive 'But they all do it' from OLO's experts on misogyny". While it suits you to deny it now, you were one of the OLO Grrls who levelled the 'misogyny' allegations against Abbott, for example in mid-Feb2013.

That being so, it is odd that you are not on the front foot howling 'misogyny' and 'sexism' and baying for the resignation of Labor's ACT Education Minister Joy Burch. What a role model that little charmer is for young pupils.

Still, as already said, the usually censorious feministas of Emily's List and the Handbag Hit Squad were silent too.

It figures! LOL

Dear Bazz,

The menu was circulated widely on social
media - it was also discussed widely in Parliament.
Mr Abbott condemned it - so he believed it had
taken place. Mal Brough who had organised the event,
was the one who did an awful lot of back-peddling
at the time and only after this had caused a stir -
and he was forced to do so. A "scape-goat" was found
to accept the blame.

Anyway, I've made my point - which Mr Abbott summed up
so well, as I cited earlier,

"Whether it's a tacky, scatological menu out the front
of a Liberal Party event. Whether its squalid jokes told at
union conference dinners with ministers present. Whatever it
is, I think we should be better than that!"

And that includes any MP using foul-language about another
MP on twitter.

The point being made is that:

Our political conversation must shift away from the mass,
infantile finger-pointing that now pervades it.
And using foul language demeans us all.