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stevie-lee on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' the dhs are disgusting i personaly know this beautiful family and you wouldnt find a better mother for these kids she would ... more
Elaine on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' These individuals and the useless politicians they are hiding behind, should be ashamed and hang their heads in disgrace.Not ... more
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crystal on Daniel Mallia's death raises questions I spent some time with Daniel growing up as he lived around the corner from me. I was upset when I heard about this story as ... more
Shinzu Yujiaki on 'Pathetic' and 'dangerous' sentence The court system is just ridiculous, I'd feel absolutely no sympathy if this disgusting fiend is completely smashed up and ... more
Mylene on "I'll pay the fee," says Hinch Ted knows there's a lot of real scary stuff happening before the election (the funeral tax is the tip of the tip of the ... more
AL on "I'll pay the fee," says Hinch As a Liberal voter, I think that the Libs have made a massive error, in not running a candidate in Niddrie. It is only 6.9% ... more
Gerard on "I'll pay the fee," says Hinch Ted 'Noballs' - because he hasn't got any!The Victorian Liberal Party certainly is a transparent government, and likewise; ... more
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Brian on Richmond denies St Kilda incident This is right up there with his "Graham Kennedy died of AIDS" story. Another classic from the human a-hole. more
milkinitagain3aw on Richmond denies St Kilda incident as usual derryn and his media sources cronies are unreliable talkin through there k ol again , i was there that night and ... more
Peggy on 'Pathetic' and 'dangerous' sentence These ridiculous and unfair sentences are going to drive people to dish out their own form of justice.I would not blame ... more
Paddy on 'Pathetic' and 'dangerous' sentence I suggest this gentleman be provided with residency living next door to Judge Roy Punshon's home. The sentence he has given ... more
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Hinch: What irks me about Abbott

Posted by: Derryn Hinch | 27 January, 2010 - 4:18 PM

The thing that irked me about Tony Abbott's much reported comments about young women saving their virginity until they get married was not so much him, yet again, imposing his morality on everybody else but the way he inferred this was a 'gift'. Like something out of a Barbara Cartland bodice-ripping novel.

Not that sex should be a joint decision. A shared experience. And even more so that he made no mention of males remaining virgins until they were married.

Not to mention his own hypocrisy. He not only had sex before marriage, he thought he'd fathered a child out of wedlock.

He now says he was really only offering advice to his own daughters. But he knows when he does an interview for the Women's Weekly that he is talking not only as a father but as the leader of the federal Opposition and therefore the leader of all Liberal voters.

And a lot of young female voters – I suspect even his own daughters – will see him as an out of touch, conservative religious relic.

'Virginity is a gift', says Abbott

Tony Abbott reveals why he made some, what some people would say are, bizarre assertions in relation to when young women and men should choose to become sexually active. Hear the interview which has sparked ire from some and have your say and whether Abbott's reputation has been damaged.

Citizenship too easy: Abbott

Blog comments

Why do politicions want to interfere with our personal lives and morality.
They should get on with running the country which they are paid to do.
Labour is the same

Dazza Thursday 28 January, 2010 - 9:59 AM
TYPICAL Liberal Party mentality - DON'T do as I do, DO as I say~! lol

Lenny Thursday 28 January, 2010 - 8:39 AM
Tony Abbott would do better to keep his father-daughter discussions out of the public domain if he had any respect for his daughter's privacy. Do you think if he opened his mouth wide enough he'd be able to put both feet in his mouth. How embarassing for them to have their "virginity" discussed publicly. I would not believe that Tony Abbott would keep his moral views and religious opinions out of the countries legislation even if he made a "rock-solid, iron-clad guarantee" that he'd never set out to ban abortion, contraception. Goodness knows we'd even have legislation to prohit sex out of wedlock. Imagine how pure and wholesome the country would be?

Felix Thursday 28 January, 2010 - 12:04 AM