What Clive Palmer said was way out of line, and he must have been on an island with no communication when Credlin confessed to the media that she was having fertility problems and her Boss was so supportive...apparently.

Clive knew exactly what he was saying when having a go at Abbott's generous paid parental leave scheme, by suggesting Credlin put him up to it so she would cash in on the big money if she has a baby.

Mind you, Abbott and Credlin were also willing to use her fertility problems for political advantage at that time too, so we would all see he wasn't really a misogynist.

Of course, the Libs ( and some nasty posts on this forum) can't say too much about the lack of decency when discussing women's fertility, when they had no problems insinuating that Julia Gillard must be 'barren' if she didn't have children.

What a load of crock, Shadow Minister!

Parrot,

You quoted me correctly Nhoj deliberately did not, in short he lied. Secondly as this was following another posters list of the impressive bed hopping by Labor MPs such as Shorten, Emmerson, Roxon and Juliar, and is thus the 100% truth. If you can demonstrate that what I said was in any way incorrect then I will apologize.

If Palmer had a recording of Credlin demanding from Abbott the PPL to benefit her, then what he said would simply have been reporting the truth. The fact that it was impossible, and designed to denigrate her based on gender is what makes it sexist.

What has outed Parrot, and all the other left whingers raging hypocrites, is that you pretend to be outraged at minor PC slips by Abbott, but remain silent when an outrageous deliberate slur is targeted at a liberal.

Next time I see any faux outrage against Abbott I will remind you of your deceit.

poirot: "But we should be silent when a woman is put under the microscope for her fertility, or for the - presumably unjustified - high position she may have attained.

But, it wasn't Clive that did this. He was unaware. It was the Media & herself. It's all one upmanship aimed a discrediting Clive because he is a threat to their two Party governing game.

Jayb,

That was Loudmouth's quote...I put it in my post because I was pointing out that Credlin had in the past used her fertility issues to give a huge plug to her boss.

That is she allowed herself to be interviewed and to discuss her fertility issues - for party political gain prior to the last election.

Funny isn't it, that when Palmer makes a faux pas using Credlin's fertility issues, it's horribly sexist.

But when she uses the issue herself to make Tony out to be a sensitive new age guy, for election fodder - it all hunky-dory.

Shadow, Palmer's attack on Prta Credlin was totally and utterly unjustified. Politically, for Palmer to attack Abbott's paid Maternity Scheme is fully justified.

http://www.mamamia.com.au/australian-politics/clive-palmer-attacks-peta-credlin/#KfhEKkkmbhQzIe6c.97

From the above article; Editorial Update: Several members of the Labor Party including Opposition Leader Bill Shorten have since come out and condemned Palmer’s comments today. Some feminist commentators have done the same.

This kind of political attack on women started way back in the Whitlam years when the Murdoch gutter press found it convenient to launch sexists attacks on one Junie Morosi, which was picked up by a plethora of media piranhas at the time. Disgusting!

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/17/1066364484505.html?from=storyrhs

A note on Palmer from me, to say this, and to roll up to Parliament in his fancy cars should send a "message" about his political maturity to those who were possibly mislead as to who and what they were voting for with the PUP. Palmer is certainly a political pup, in more ways than one

'Hmmmm, from what I can see the *RIGHT* has been pretty silent over the decades regarding Catholicism pedophilia. So I guess the right has it's own form of silence .... let's call it "The silence of the right '

really Nhoj a few of the bbc and abc luvvies luvvies were very silent about some of their own. Just another distortion of yours. At least you are admitting that pedophilla is wrong something that not all the left agree on. Some like to call child porn art. I wonder where you draw your moral base from to call it wrong.