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I thought there were important issues around - well not if you're Australia's Daily Telegraph editor. No, if you're he, a drunken proposition from an MP is what tops the list of grievances concerning our society today.

"RUDD MP ASKED DRIVER FOR SEX", the headline screams. The article goes on to, in not much detail I'd have to say, describe loosely, the events; the obligatory sanctimony laces the article's proponents' remarks.

My question is - with all that's really going on, from the climate change argument (argument, because it's been in no way proven that we, in fact are, causing the predominant damage) to the child abuse problem to the war in Iraq (and the plethora of other issues), why is it considered important to print some MP's inebriated amourous antics across the front page.

The answer, of course, is point scoring due to the upcoming federal election, a mere five months away. Here we see the politicians at their manipulative best as they creepily attempt to gain public favour with their slippery smiles while knifing their opponents with a false sincerity-cloaked vehemence. All the while the smile never fades.
But does having this reason justify a front page? I think not - not in my house of morals and ethics. Course, we're talking about politicians here, to whom the aforementioned standards are an expedient sacrifice. Politics, as is beautifully demostrated by the local rag, is a dirty game.

And in my opinion, this blatant exploitation of a woman's alcohol-fuelled utterance (that I'm sure, the next morning in the cold, sober light of day, she regretted terribly - after all, who amongst us HASN'T regretted our actions the 'day after the night before' as it were), sinks the Telegraph into the relams of that most tabloid of tabloids, the British comic, "The Sun". (At least the Sun had the decency to offer up scantily clad young women to compensate for their gutter reporting).

Why not just go with the 'fart' jokes? At least we'd all get a laugh.