I haven't seen the swearing tirade by Rudd, but hopefully it will pop up somewhere.
This is the only one I can find for now, but it's pretty lame.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKyWA5YlFT8&feature=related

This story is a smacking disgrace, smacking Howard would  never have  said bugger. ::)

It's not that funny, although it was in the privacy of a meeting. For someone with such a huge vocabulary - you would think he would choose his words more carefully.


Kevin Rudd has refused to apologise for repeatedly swearing during a meeting with factional bosses earlier this month, saying the "robust conversation" was consistent with Labor Party traditions.

A number of MPs copped some expletives when they visited the prime minister's parliament house office to object to plans to cut politicians' annual printing allowances by 25 per cent to $75,000.

The PM said in the presence of three female MPs: "I don't care what you f***ers think," News Limited has reported.

He later told another senator: "You can get f***ed."

Mr Rudd admits he swore.

"It's fair to say, consistent with the traditions of the Australia Labor Party, we're given to robust conversations," Mr Rudd told reporters in New York when asked about the meeting.

"I made my point of view absolutely clear.

"These entitlements needed to be cut back.

"I make no apology for either the content of my conversation or the robustness with which I expressed my views."

In a random survey of printing allowance use, the auditor-general found that in 74 per cent of instances the entitlement was at risk of being misused.

During the 2007/08 financial year - which covered the 2007 election - the auditor-general found some MPs were using the printing allowance primarily for re-election purposes.

Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says Mr Rudd doesn't have more of a potty mouth than anyone else in the community.

"There's as much chance of the prime minister swearing as you and I have sworn from time to time in the past," he told the Nine Network's Laurie Oakes.

"All of us engage regrettably in that sort of language from time to time."

Mr Smith said the most important thing was that the policy of capping printing payments was "absolutely right".

Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese declined to comment on the swearing because he wasn't at the meeting but said the prime minister had acted appropriately regarding the allowance.

"The Australian people will get some comfort from the fact that the prime minister isn't dictated to by any group, faction, interest group within the party," Mr Albanese told Network Ten.

So what if he swore. It wasn't in public. Get over it. I swear all the time.

Aussie Skinhead wrote on Sep 20^th, 2009 at 7:51pm:

So what if he swore. It wasn't in public. Get over it. I swear all the time.

Not that I'd want to compare your mind to that of a skilled politician ('our glorious Australian nation state' ? You pompous twat... Even the Krauts don't buy that mindless sh!t any more)... But an Aussie politician swearing... :o  :o... We're world renowned for it.

NorthOfNorth wrote on Sep 20^th, 2009 at 8:03pm:

('our glorious Australian nation state' ? You pompous twat... Even the Krauts don't buy that mindless sh!t any more)

I am not pompous. Most of the time I walk around my house dressed in my jocks and thongs and that is about it. When I go down town, I just wear my pants and shirt and thats it. You're point?

Aussie Skinhead wrote on Sep 20^th, 2009 at 8:08pm:

NorthOfNorth wrote on Sep 20th, 2009 at 8:03pm: ('our glorious Australian nation state' ? You pompous twat... Even the Krauts don't buy that mindless sh!t any more) I am not pompous. Most of the time I walk around my house dressed in my jocks and thongs and that is about it. When I go down town, I just wear my pants and shirt and thats it. You're point?

You're a bare foot half-dressed pompous twat.

Bet you've got a towelling hat you wear on special occasions... Maybe a few corks dangling from it to keep you amused on bus trips.

As I've said elsewhere, Kevvy must be doing a bloody great job if right wing jouno's like Milne need to write stories like this.
Does anybody really believe Howard never said bugger? or any other PM?  ::)

You are missing the point as usual.

The behaviour goes to character...  and kev's is a flawed as they come.

He probably thought PM meant Potty Mouth.  ;D ;D ;D

we are really running low on topics.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Sep 21^st, 2009 at 9:02pm:

we are really running low on topics.

I'm sure it's only temporary Sprintcyclist. Where there's life there's hope - unless of course this whole forum disappears when FD changes hosts.


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He probably thought PM meant Potty Mouth.

That's exactly what he is. Rudd is supposed to set an example as a leader and there he is swearing like a drunken yobbo. Hasn't he got any self control?  He was offensive, although some people don't seem to care - as per the video clip Amadd posted.  Rudd accidentally let the "s..." word slip and his audience giggles. It wasn't funny - it was embarrassing. Maybe that's why they laughed?

mantra wrote on Sep 21^st, 2009 at 9:47pm:

That's exactly what he is. Rudd is supposed to set an example as a leader and there he is swearing like a drunken yobbo. Hasn't he got any self control?  He was offensive, although some people don't seem to care - as per the video clip Amadd posted.  Rudd accidentally let the "s..." word slip and his audience giggles. It wasn't funny - it was embarrassing - maybe that's why they laughed.

I don't think we (as a people) are all that phased by swearing and it sure is part of the culture. But, having said that, you take a risk when you start swearing in places where it's generally considered inappropriate in that once you start it can be hard to stop. The odd f word here and there, you can get away with and its odds on that people will take it in their stride, but if it slips out in the wrong place at the wrong time to the wrong audience... well... you could find yourself.... up fvckin sh!t creek without a fvckin paddle... and that's a kunt of a place to be this time of fvckin year with all the fvckin rain we've been having ;D

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He probably thought PM meant Potty Mouth

But who fcukin cares? nobody but the rightards trying to score points and the people stuck in the 1950s who still think everybody speaks like Doris Day.
You show how bias you are by your post booooooofeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, do you really think Howard never swears? I know you wont answer because it will show you up for the bias rightard you are.

oh dear...  who mentioned Howard?  I'm a lefty....  I never said anything about anyone never swearing.

But as usual you miss the point. Even when I told you in English what it was.

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and that's a kunt of a place to be this time of fvckin year with all the fvckin rain we've been having Back to top

Have you been getting rain? we havn't had any since the May floods, send it down to us.

The wowsers should spend a bit of time in corporate boardrooms. Swearing is part of the Australian psyche, but we're nowhere near as bad as the Yanks.

I have a theory why they feel the need to swear. It's

N = k/SsubscriptP

Where N= number of swear words per day
k= Sod's Constant
and Ssubscript P = Penis size

Actually swearing at or in front of women has never been part of the Australian psyche.

Grendel wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 10:33am:

Actually swearing at or in front of women has never been part of the Australian psyche.

With that I agree. See my addition.

muso wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 10:31am:

The wowsers should spend a bit of time in corporate boardrooms. Swearing is part of the Australian psyche, but we're nowhere near as bad as the Yanks. I have a theory why they feel the need to swear. It's N = k/SsubscriptP Where N= number of swear words per day k= Sod's Constant and Ssubscript P = Penis size

I don't get your theory Muso - ??  You don't have to be a wowser to object to the PM swearing in the workplace.  Would you appreciate your boss abusing you the way Rudd did with his ministers? Is he setting a precedent for other "bosses" to abuse their subordinates in this manner?

mantra wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 11:53am:

muso wrote on Sep 22nd, 2009 at 10:31am: The wowsers should spend a bit of time in corporate boardrooms. Swearing is part of the Australian psyche, but we're nowhere near as bad as the Yanks. I have a theory why they feel the need to swear. It's N = k/SsubscriptP Where N= number of swear words per day k= Sod's Constant and Ssubscript P = Penis size I don't get your theory Muso - ??  You don't have to be a wowser to object to the PM swearing in the workplace.  Would you appreciate your boss abusing you the way Rudd did with his ministers? Is he setting a precedent for other "bosses" to abuse their subordinates in this manner?

What I'm saying is that many corporate bosses feel the need to swear because some corporate highfliers tend to swear. They tend to emulate them and think that it makes them appear more macho, or maybe it compensates from their other deficiencies.

What I was saying is that swearing is commonplace in some boardrooms (generally where women are not present) I don't condone it though. I don't swear very often myself.

The way swear words are overused, we will have to look for other ways to express “robust language”

The'ye just words, I can't believe the wowsers make such a big deal of it. Imagine if Rudd wobbled up to parliment drunk, now that would be a story.


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I WAS DRUNK AT WORK - HOWARD John Howard has admitted addressing Federal Parliament while drunk during his so-called "wilderness years" after losing the Liberal leadership in 1989. A new biography on Australia's second-longest serving Prime Minister reveals Mr Howard was deeply affected by his 1989 loss to Andrew Peacock, breaking down in a tearful apology to staff and sometimes drinking too much. [...] On one occasion, after over-indulging at a farewell dinner for a close friend in 1990, Mr Howard admitted entering the chamber drunk. "I had a couple of South Australian reds . . . I remember that night, yes. I can't dispute the story," he told the authors. Early morning walks helped Mr Howard overcome the drinking.

Skippy - they are only words, but to a lot of people they are ugly words unacceptable in public or the workplace, although amongst friends, family or on anonymous forums they are usually tolerated.

Rudd portrayed himself prior to the last election as a conservative - more so than  Howard, yet now we see another side to him - that of a bully with a mean temper. He comes across as two people - one a benign, articulate primeminister - the other a foul mouthed moron who snaps when he doesn't get his own way. Don't forget the incident where he gave a hostess a verbal bashing because she didn't give him the airline meal he requested. I doubt this will be the last of Rudd's childish outbursts.

Rudd said he was a fiscal conservative.

The meal the hostie gave him was at like 9.00pm--I would snap and so would you, I bet.

Factional warlords came to him to get him to re-instate the $100K limit to the printing allowance--it was not a workplace situation.

The real question is, who and why leaked the conversation?

I can't believe this story wasn"t on the front page of every paper in the world, unbelievable, what sort of person in their right mind would ever say that disgraceful word. He should be hung in public.

" what about the children.....somebody think of the children"

GET OVER IT, FOR bugger SAKE