In 2011, Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott expressed regret for appearing to endorse the abusive placards like ‘ditch the bitch’ and ‘Juliar - Bob Brown’s Bitch’ at an anti-carbon tax rally in Canberra.
But the vile hatred didn't end there for our first female Prime Minister, it got worse when her father passed away.
On 29 September 2012, the Australian newspaper revealed that Sydney radio broadcaster Alan Jones declared at a Sydney University Young Liberals dinner that Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s father had ‘died of shame’.
He was forced to issue a half-hearted apology because his
sponsors were outraged. He was hit in the hip pocket and for a brief moment,
staggered in the harsh glare of public loathing.
But the Canberra bear pit had moved along from those bad old days and there was a glimmer of kindness in the wind.
But when Brittany Higgins was raped by Bruce Lehrmann at Parliament House, we're back to square one.
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