nicola roxon blames abbott for jones comments, page-4

should bob carr also apologise....for his scathing attack on gillard as well ? he is supposed to be on her side, they are on the same team...it has nothing to do with abbott..
jones has a go at all of them, both lib, labs and the greens
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Here is Bob Ellis, Bob Carr’s friend and long-time speechwriter, writing on the death of Julia Gillard’s father:


She fled an important conference, and a meeting with Vladimir Putin, because her father had died at 83, and fled home weeping to Adelaide.

Leaving a battlefield because of a dear one’s death is not what she lets our soldiers do. They must stay, and fight on till battle’s end.

Yet she thinks she is different somehow. She is allowed her girly tears and her time off, playing hookey from her national obligations, her duty.

The latest conference had a day to run. The funeral wouldn’t occur for about five days. There was time to get home and comfort her mum before then. Her sister was on hand, doing so already. Many Australians overseas when a parent dies don’t get to the funeral. That is the way things go sometimes.

But not for Gillard. She is what Schwarzenegger might call a ‘girly man’. She goes AWOL.

Bob Carr ought to do the decent thing and say today loud and clear that he apologises to Julia Gillard for unacceptable remarks, made by a Labor speechwriter and friend of a Labor frontbencher.
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I found the article in the news somewhere today, but it is repeated here at bolts blog

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/will_carr_apologise_for_the_disgraceful_comments_his_speechwriter_made_abou/