As the Tony Abbott debate drags on, his former chief of staff Peta Credlin took to TalkRADIO this morning to defended her former boss, pointing out that for a so-called sexist every single one of his Chief of Staffs during his 25-year parliamentary career were strong women. Also this morning, former Aussie PM Julia Gillard appeared on Sky News reminiscing about her now-infamous speech accusing Abbott of misogyny, which Sky went as far as re-broadcasting…

Peta Credlin contextualised the speech for a UK audience, pointing out that quite from it being a strong rebuking of sexism, PM Gillard was in fact defending her biased left-wing speaker of the house – at the time embroiled in a sexism scandal after texts leaked involving “vulgar euphemisms for female genitalia” – by trying to move the focus onto Abbott. Her main attack was that someone once held up a sexist sign behind him at a rally…

Some of the texts Gillard was defending her speaker over included ”They [female genitalia] look like mussell [sic] removed from its shell. Look at a bottle of mussel meat. Salty C..ts in brine.” and “I’m going to smack u. Arhhhhhhhh.” Guido’s sure Brits will be able to comprehend left-wingers overlooking a problematic speaker because he favours their side…