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‘Julia Gillard Fried Quail: Small Breasts, Huge Thighs’: Australian PM furious at opposition fundraiser menu
Gender has again taken center stage in Australia’s bitter and drawn-out election campaign after a menu at an opposition fundraiser featured a series of sexually derogatory names for dishes based on Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
The menu, posted on Twitter by a journalist, was from a fundraiser for Mal Brough, a minister in former Prime Minister John Howard’s government who is seeking to return to parliament after losing his seat in 2007.
One of the dishes was described as “Julia Gillard Kentucky Fried Quail – Small Breasts, Huge Thighs & A Big Red Box.” (Cameron Spencer / Getty Images)
Will the world end in 2012? NASA says no, Australian PM Julia Gillard says yes
The 2012 doomsayers are wrong says NASA, which has dedicated a section of its website to debunking myths about the alleged coming apocalypse. It may have a hard time convincing people, however, as the Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, has recorded a video message expressing with certainly that the world is coming to an end in just a few weeks.
The NASA section spun out of the work of scientist David Morrison, who talked with NPR about the phenomenon last week.
“Many people don’t know what they’re afraid of,” Morrison told NPR’s Neal Conan, “but they have heard this doomsday thing so often that they just come to me with a simple question: Will we have Christmas this year?”
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard dragged from restaurant by police after being surrounded by angry protesters
This is the moment Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was dragged from a Canberra restaurant by her security team after it was surrounded by furious Aboriginal rights protesters.
Ms. Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott were stranded in The Lobby restaurant on Thursday as dozens of demonstrators from a protest against Australia Day, which marks the arrival of British settlers in 1788, converged on the hotel.
Losing a shoe in the rush to safety, Ms. Gillard and Mr. Abbott were dramatically escorted through the crowd by security agents and riot police brandishing shields, and the visibly rattled Ms. Gillard tripped and fell during the rush.
She later made light of the incident, saying she was “made of pretty tough stuff and the police did a great job.” (Photo: Lukas Coch/AFP/Getty Images)
