Nicola Roxon thinks that she and her ALP mates can routinely and systematically lie about Tony Abbott and he’ll still be friendly.
Ms Roxon denied ever calling the opposition leader misogynistic, but insisted he had a problem with women. She said he routinely turned his back on her in parliament and refused to acknowledge her at social events, unlike other coalition MPs.
”Usually that’s a very friendly sort of environment because you’re a little bit off-duty, but not so with Mr Abbott,” Ms Roxon said. ”It’s known that we don’t like each other, but I don’t think that’s any reason why I’m not able to express those views.
”That’s part of politics.”
Mind you expecting different ‘on duty’ behaviour to ‘off duty’ behaviour indicates that the ALP are lying about Abbott for political gain.
Nice bottom line to a Bolta piece: Abbott is claimed to have a problem with capable women: but who is suggesting that Nicola Roxon is capable?
Rafe
7 Oct 12 at 6:37 pm
Tony Abbott has a problem with culpable women. TFIFY…
ar
7 Oct 12 at 6:40 pm
No, Ms Roxon – Abbott has a problem with liars and ne’er-do-wells, irrespective of their gender.
perturbed
7 Oct 12 at 6:44 pm
Roxon:
So she is also insulting Margie by insinuating that she is not capable. Roxon is a nasty person with no redeeming features.
samuel j
7 Oct 12 at 6:45 pm
Kangaroo Court has a post up about Roxon’s improper interference in the Slipper case
http://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2012/10/07/ag-nicola-roxon-gives-instructions-to-her-subordinate-justice-steven-rares-in-the-peter-slipper-james-ashby-case/
val majkus
7 Oct 12 at 6:46 pm
‘How stupid can you be?’
As a question in relation to Roxon?
Roxon – there are bacteria more intelligent than this flabby soap-dodging shrew.
It’s a trick question, innit.
Mk50 of Brisbane
7 Oct 12 at 6:51 pm
Margie Abbott said that she “has never been elected to public office but she can speak as a mother, a small business operator, a childcare worker, a volunteer and as Tony’s wife.”
Ms Gillard and Ms Roxon are not capable in any of those areas. They have none of Mrs ABbott’s accomplishments.
Ms Gillard was not even voted in but stole the job and Mx Roxon is a dumbo.
candy
7 Oct 12 at 6:51 pm
Carr says: ”maybe she does protest too much”.
Is he insinuating that Margie Abbott is a dissembler? Compare the crocodile tears about AJ’s comment. What despicable tartuffery. We need to salt the fields that sprouted these disgusting tartuffes.
dover_beach
7 Oct 12 at 6:51 pm
Speaking of flabby losers, because Gerard Henderson was on I watched insiders today. He shredded left-wing journos and the ABC as unprofessional (causing Leatherface apoplexy).
I wondered for a while why the whale was present but its species had be puzzled. Then it spoke and I realised it was Middleton, yet another left-wing harridan.
Why has she stacked on so much weight? Is she copying Michael Moore’s penchant for 5lb slabs of deep fried battered whale blubber as between-mouthful snacks?? She seems to have added ~30kg since last I saw her on telly.
Mk50 of Brisbane
7 Oct 12 at 6:57 pm
Roxon has never graduated from being a nasty little schoolgirl.
Apart from Billy Shorten, who has found this dank woman attractive? That might be part of her problem.
James of the Glens
7 Oct 12 at 7:01 pm
In the 1940s Menzies was the best friend of Curtin and Chifley. Then they could disagree and but not get personal.
stackja
7 Oct 12 at 7:02 pm
I want ice-cream now.
Gab
7 Oct 12 at 7:21 pm
Nanny Roxon is so far out of her depth as AG it’s not funny. People are so used to incompetence from Gillard and her government it has passed un-noticed.
H B Bear
7 Oct 12 at 7:29 pm
So Roxon is upset Abbott doesn’t give her more attention at social events? Does she have the hots for him?
What is it with Labor women and married men?
Feral Abacus
7 Oct 12 at 7:47 pm
I’m still laughing at how Labor hang on to every word Abbott says. They really do make him more important that what an Opposition should be afforded. Hillbillies.
Gab
7 Oct 12 at 7:52 pm
Roxon has to be shifted from Health becasue she failed in it she is now repeating the process at AGs. As a minister of the crown and AG her current dabbling in the proces of the courts is down right disturbing.
Bronson
7 Oct 12 at 7:53 pm
lol Roxon gives Abbott a serve and then gets upset when Abbott gives it right back. How dare he speak to Princess Roxon like that! Off with his head!!
Gab
7 Oct 12 at 7:54 pm
The Handbag Hit Squad are as thin skinned as they are talented.
Token
7 Oct 12 at 7:58 pm
…and they’re used to their males being the little meek and mild betas they are.
Gab
7 Oct 12 at 8:00 pm
“and they’re used to their males being the little meek and mild betas they are.”
oh I don’t know Gab, they seem to like the craig thomson and peter slipper types
candy
7 Oct 12 at 8:12 pm
they’re immature harrigans
val majkus
7 Oct 12 at 8:21 pm
Val
I hope that idiot at Kangaroo Court has his house in wife’s name and doesn’t mind getting buggered by large men in small cells, because his stupid comments accusing a Federal Court of corruption could lead to heavy fines and/or a bit of porridge. What an utter twat!
Rococo Liberal
7 Oct 12 at 8:24 pm
What year is this? 1685? You cannot criticise the courts?
That should happen to him, good and proper, if his claims are investigated and they are false.
.
7 Oct 12 at 8:28 pm
sorry, I meant harridans
but harrigans means plunderer in Irish so either could fit the purpose
val majkus
7 Oct 12 at 8:30 pm
Dot
Of course you can criticise the courts, but you can’t accuse Judges of corruption without proof. It is called contempt of court. Unlike other people judges cannot sue for defamation. So they are protected from idiots like Kangaroo Court by contempt of court rules.
It’s OK for anyone to criticise a judgment of the court on the basis that the judge erred at law, but making baseless criminal allegations against judges demeans the law, something which we all should concerned about.
Rococo Liberal
7 Oct 12 at 8:40 pm
People who criticise Pat O’Shane have to be extremely careful due to the obscene powers of judges.
I yield to RL and suggest prudence is required.
Token
7 Oct 12 at 8:45 pm
Thank-you for schooling me, R.L.
I thoroughly appreciate this. Your explanation makes perfect sense.
.
7 Oct 12 at 8:50 pm
What’s the truth about Bob Carr and women? Does he have a problem with them?
Infidel Tiger
7 Oct 12 at 8:54 pm
No matter what Roxon says or does, nothing can alter the fact that Abbott is superior to her in every way imaginable – especially educationally and intellectually. Roxon is an affirmative action appointment.
C.L.
7 Oct 12 at 9:02 pm
He seems to get very sooky if anything bad is said about his wife.
From experience, it gnaws at the person and leaves them with a mix of anger & desperate longing for validation.
Token
7 Oct 12 at 9:09 pm
roxon certainly demonstrates that! What was she mewling about just recently? Something about Abbott not paying her any attention at social functions and in QT? lol
Gab
7 Oct 12 at 9:13 pm
Judges and Magistrates can sue in defamation for comments made about them when on bench.
cohenite
7 Oct 12 at 9:15 pm
Samuel So she is also insulting Margie by insinuating that she is not capable.
No, she is insulting every woman that doesn’t have problem with Tony Abbot.
John
7 Oct 12 at 9:15 pm
Margie Abbott is also an amazing woman in her own right. A highly regarded educator, mother and wife. Roxon can’t even wash her own fucking hair.
Infidel Tiger
7 Oct 12 at 9:18 pm
I noticed today that she’s stacked on some weight too.
C.L.
7 Oct 12 at 9:20 pm
Who has a problem with women voters?
Sounds like Labor has a problem with voters across the board.
Token
7 Oct 12 at 9:26 pm
I’m not sure who’s dimmer – her or Tanya Plibersek – both complete lightweights. How on earth did they get where they are today? At least Penny Wong comes across as reasonably atriculate.
papachango
7 Oct 12 at 9:38 pm
She’s a gluttinous pig with no self control. Her nazi tendencies are rooted in her own self loathing. Every time she looks in the mirror she wants to legislate away the hideous beast that confronts her. Unfortunately she is such a weak willed loser that she instead takes her inner turmoil out on the rest of us.
As much as she repulses normal people it is nothing on the repulsion she feels for herself. We should pity her.
Infidel tiger
7 Oct 12 at 9:44 pm
What’s not to like about a ‘blokey bloke’? (as long as he’s got a heart of gold)
Suits me, and many others.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
7 Oct 12 at 10:14 pm
Who knew that Roxon had such a great big man crush on Abbott that she cries becuase he doesn’t say hello to her at parties. Get over it Roxon, he’s just not into you.
CC
7 Oct 12 at 11:20 pm
Apparently that’s not the Downton Abbott, though.
AndrewL
8 Oct 12 at 6:57 am
The answer to the question of how stupid can you be is clear: you can be as stupid as a wingnut Catallaxy commenter. You are establishing the gold standard of stupidity here. Thread after thread proving that the right have a problem with capable women, filled with bile and misogyny against them. GG lads, you’re doing Roxon’s job for her.
m0nty
8 Oct 12 at 8:36 am
Monthy how nice of you to drop by. By what earthly standard could you possibly judge toxin as competent? Failed at health and had to be moved and has now cost the tax payers $50k ( so far) in a disastrous court case and been chastised by a federal court judge for interfering in the same case. Your argument is non existant and your logic flawed as usual write out 50 times I must not write silly things on the cat.
Bronson
8 Oct 12 at 5:27 pm
Bronson,
Monty has made the typical lefty assumption that Roxon is actually a capable woman and not there as an Emily’s List affirmative action. Then again, a government with ministers like this one http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/national/more-tv-coverage-of-womens-sport-govt/story-e6frfku9-1226490720345 would have to be full of affirmative action appointments.
Tator
8 Oct 12 at 5:35 pm