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First Dog On The Moon

The joy of an ordinary wife: the Margie Abbott Story

Sitting down for breakfast with the Abbotts, the real political power story of the Opposition Leader is revealed ...

First Dog On The Moon

Oct 08, 2012

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  1. Innocent Until
    October 10, 2012 at 8:41 am

    I didn’t mean to imply that the occasional gross sexism means that a man isn’t lovely. You can’t expect someone to self-censor 100% of the time against the effects of their background and environment of congratulatory approval for past put-downs.

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  2. klewso
    October 10, 2012 at 8:55 am

    But isn’t it nice that with Abbott’s being able to get up in parliament yesterday, to then climb up on his moral high horse, to attack Slipper (and thus the Gillard/Labor government) about “Slippers misogony”, in his “moral outrage”? Apparently Slipper’s “the only politician that does these sort of things or uses this sort of language”?
    Slipper who has been a Coal-ition representative with nowhere near the scrutiny of his “habits” then, for 7 consecutive elections?
    After less than a week before his own wife has come out in Limited News, parading his testimonials, issuing such an endorsement/guarantee, as “proof he isn’t one of those”, that he is attacking someone else for being?

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