Posted on 09/07/2006 7:03:11 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
BURLESQUE entertainment at a climate forum in Canberra was "probably not appropriate" but people shouldn't overreact, Prime Minister John Howard has said.
The government last night withdrew funding for the 17th Australia New Zealand Climate Forum after a number of top scientists, many of them women, stormed out of the forum dinner at Old Parliament House on Wednesday night, offended by the organising committee's choice of burlesque entertainment.
Today Mr Howard said he understood the performance may have upset some women but "we don't want to overdramatise our reaction".
"I'm sensitive to the view of many women in relation to this but I do think we shouldn't overreact," he told Southern Cross Broadcasting.
"My reaction is well, probably not appropriate but I'm not going to list it for discussion at the next meeting of the national security committee of cabinet."
Experts and academics attending Wednesday night's dinner at Old Parliament House in Canberra were flabbergasted when the evening's entertainment - a group of eight scantily clad women - wandered out.
Lead dancer and founder of Miss Kitka's House of Burlesque, Rebecca Gale, emerged clothed in red balloons, which she then encouraged male members of the audience to pop.
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Cockle warming?
Pretty close...
Brilliant move if he wanted to end the conference.
That's not Nicola Roxon, is it?
"My reaction is well, probably not appropriate but I'm not going to list it for discussion at the next meeting of the national security committee of cabinet."
LOL
Whoops! Forgot to include the caption with the pic.
Surprise ... Some of Australia's leading scientists were shocked when lead dancer and founder of Miss Kitka's House of Burlesque, Rebecca Gale, provided some unexpected entertainment / File
Did you get my private message? I'm not sure I'm doing it properly.
Got it and replied...
Maybe they should have shown some of "Big Brother Australia" instead.
Australian PM lingo for "Lighten up!".
He shoulda said that if he'd have known the women scientists would have been so offended... that he'd have offered to let THEM wear the balloons.
Heh heh heh.
:-P
You make the call!
I think I'll go with the sheila in the balloons! :-)
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