Political profanity: Authentic leadership or a lack of respect?
Coalition frontbencher Dan Tehan was warned and then removed from the chamber after asking Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen to “cut the crap”.
Press PLAY to hear Chrissy Morrissy and Louise Percy discuss the rise of political profanity
The incident occurred at the same time as US president Donald Trump told Fox News: “We’ll bomb the s**t out of them.”
6PR Mornings host Chrissy Morrissy explored the issue of colourful language in politics with etiquette coach Louise Percy, who discussed what Australians expect from their leaders.
“I do think that in a lot of ways lack of respect is at the core of all this, lack of courtesy, lack of empathy, quite often even lack of kindness”, she said.
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