Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has been forced to defend his comment that "sometimes shit happens" when discussing the events surrounding the death of a digger in Afghanistan last year.
Lance Corporal Jared MacKinney was shot dead in a battle with Taliban insurgents in August.
This wasn’t an accident…Jared was a friend with one of my kids, when they both were in the Air Cadets.
I can Rember our PM Tony saying""sh!t happens"".
