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PM plays down climate strip
news.com.au ^ | 8 September 2006

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; burlesque; climatechange; johnhoward; strippers
The organizers were obviously after a bit more than global warming...
1 posted on 09/07/2006 7:03:12 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
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To: Aussie Dasher

Cockle warming?


2 posted on 09/07/2006 7:06:50 PM PDT by saganite (Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
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To: saganite

Pretty close...


3 posted on 09/07/2006 7:08:09 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Brilliant move if he wanted to end the conference.


4 posted on 09/07/2006 7:09:22 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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5 posted on 09/07/2006 7:16:30 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (ENEMY + MEDIA = ENEMEDIA)
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To: Fred Nerks

That's not Nicola Roxon, is it?


6 posted on 09/07/2006 7:17:44 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: Aussie Dasher
"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."

LOL

7 posted on 09/07/2006 7:21:02 PM PDT by NCjim (The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
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To: Aussie Dasher

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


8 posted on 09/07/2006 7:23:29 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (ENEMY + MEDIA = ENEMEDIA)
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To: Fred Nerks

Did you get my private message? I'm not sure I'm doing it properly.


9 posted on 09/07/2006 7:25:25 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Got it and replied...


10 posted on 09/07/2006 7:28:09 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (ENEMY + MEDIA = ENEMEDIA)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Maybe they should have shown some of "Big Brother Australia" instead.


11 posted on 09/07/2006 7:52:12 PM PDT by Perdogg (My friends say I should act my age - What's my age again?)
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To: NCjim
"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."

Australian PM lingo for "Lighten up!".

12 posted on 09/07/2006 8:05:56 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: Aussie Dasher

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


13 posted on 09/07/2006 9:58:19 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (I criticize everyone... and then breath some radioactive fire and stomp on things.)
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To: Aussie Dasher
In red...

and with balloons at a rally...

You make the call!

14 posted on 09/08/2006 6:26:04 AM PDT by Gondring (If "Conservatives" now want to "conserve" our Constitution away, then I must be a Preservative!)
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To: Gondring

I think I'll go with the sheila in the balloons! :-)


15 posted on 09/08/2006 6:31:47 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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