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Did this Australian minister drop the C-word?

Yes, the really bad one.

IRISH POLITICIANS ARE not allowed use a raft of ‘bad words’, including brat, chancer, gurrier and communist.

In Leinster House, such terms are considered ‘unparliamentary language’.

So what would those in the Dáil chamber think about Christopher Pyne’s recent outburst during Question Time with the Education Minister?

Australians have taken to Twitter and Facebook to discuss one very important question – did the Minister use the c-word?

Pyne, who has just announced controversial higher education reforms, denies using the really bad word. He says he simply called Bill Shorten a ‘grub’.

The attack began:

He will have to stop being the No 1 whinger in Australia. He will have to start having solutions rather than being all complaint and no responsibility.

“If No 1 whinger in Australia were a reality TV show, there would be no point in any other contestant entering it – because if Bill Shorten entered it, he would win it! But on Thursday night the leader of the opposition has an opportunity.”

Before uttering the disputed word, he was reprimanded by the manager of opposition business for calling the leader ‘Bill Shorten’ instead of his official title, ‘Opposition Leader’.

After the four-letter word was heard, the Speaker then asked Pyne to “refer to people by their correct name”.

The Sydney Morning Herald recalls the term ‘grub’ being used in parliament in the recent past.

Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard got herself into hot water by describing an opposition spokesperson as a “snivelling grub”.

On being called up on it, she told the Speaker: ”If I have offended grubs, I withdraw unconditionally”.

She soon found herself thrown out of parliament for 24 hours for defying a request for an unconditional backdown.

Hat tip to Jenny Hislop for bringing this one to our attention.

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    Mute Rory Browne
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    Aug 16th 2019, 7:52 PM

    And the award for most confusing headline ever goes to…..

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    Mute Declan O'Neill
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    Aug 16th 2019, 7:59 PM

    @Rory Browne: Made sense to me

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    Mute John Horan
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    Aug 16th 2019, 8:06 PM

    @Declan O’Neill: I thought it was about a guy from Warsaw

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    Mute Finbarr Barry
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    Aug 16th 2019, 8:48 PM

    @Rory Browne:… Driven by Mr. Murphy from Termonfeckin

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    Mute Fachtna Roe
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    Aug 16th 2019, 7:59 PM

    I hope the Man who was injured will be OK, and make a full recovery. While this seems to have been an accident, where I live in Clonmel people intentionally drive at speed on the footpath with scant regard for residents on the Street. I have no doubt that among the respectable local people who’ll be tut-tutting about this over the fence with their neighbours are those who themselves routinely endanger the lives of others as they drive their own little darlings to school. I was subject to a hit and run myself, but while that incident is now a Garda matter, Tipperary Council continue to NOT to do anything 5 years after being informed of the risk to life. My very best wishes to the Man injured; I have been that soldier.

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    Mute Jim Buckley Barrett
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    Aug 16th 2019, 8:11 PM

    @Fachtna Roe: then go to the Gardai station and sign a formal complaint, all you need is the reg of the car

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    Mute páraicS
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    Aug 16th 2019, 8:16 PM

    @Jim Buckley Barrett: Often in hit and run incidents the car drives off before the reg can be noted.

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    Aug 16th 2019, 8:17 PM

    @Fachtna Roe: You live in Clonmel really?I have lived in Clonmel all my life and have never seen”people driving at speed on foothpaths”.You sure?

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    Aug 16th 2019, 8:19 PM

    @Billy McNamara: Yes, Billy.

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    Aug 16th 2019, 8:38 PM

    @Jim Buckley Barrett: Thanks, Jim, I know how it works! All done ages ago.

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    Aug 16th 2019, 10:13 PM

    @Fachtna Roe: while I sympathize with your personal misfortune, it is fairly difficult to drive along the footpath in Gladstone St. on a Friday afternoon. Perhaps the driver got I’ll. Hope the pedestrian recovers fully.

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    Aug 16th 2019, 11:11 PM

    @Fachtna Roe: phew I thought you had 141 likes…but it’s 41 tg…

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    Aug 16th 2019, 8:24 PM

    What was the Pole’s name?

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    Aug 16th 2019, 8:39 PM

    @DeeM: his name was Pole… Light Pole

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    Mute John Horan
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    Aug 16th 2019, 8:45 PM

    @DeeM: North, and he has a brother called south. His sister is Ima and she got married to a guy called Brian Dancer she now goes by the name Ima Pole Dancer

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    Aug 16th 2019, 8:50 PM

    @DeeM: Tomasz

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    Aug 16th 2019, 9:03 PM

    @John Horan: Brilliant!! Seriously though…i hope he’s ok!!

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    Aug 16th 2019, 10:24 PM

    @DeeM: brilliant

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    Aug 16th 2019, 10:39 PM

    @DeeM: I don’t believe he is. Very serious.

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    Aug 16th 2019, 10:01 PM

    So let me get this straight. A polish guy gets struck by a car and takes it out on a pedestrian?

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    Aug 16th 2019, 8:32 PM

    Lads, have we gone that PC that quoting (actually, more ‘paraphrasing’) Fr Ted is no longer acceptable?? Christ…

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    Mute Eoin O'C
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    Aug 16th 2019, 8:35 PM

    @Eoin O’C: for context, I jokingly commented “feckin Poles? Comin over here, takin our jobs and our women!” – an obvious jibe at the horrendously written title. But no…

    Humour is dead.

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    Aug 16th 2019, 8:07 PM

    That’s unlucky at its best.

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    Aug 17th 2019, 12:29 AM

    hope the pedestrian is ok. Struck by a pole ? And then it s investigated by the Pol _ ice.

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    Aug 16th 2019, 11:09 PM

    Was the Pole ok? Just because he’s a foreign national doesn’t mean The Journal shouldn’t report on how badly he or she was hurt!

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