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Oops. Stephen Conroy drops the “F” bomb

Was the Communications Minister trying to get himself as a late-entrant on the "Blunder of the Year" award?

They don’t call it the silly season for nothin’…

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy raised eyebrows yesterday when he dropped the “F” Bomb live on TV.

He made the colourful remark answering a question about the risk for investment in Australia at the National Press Club in Canberra.

“If a tax goes up, God, that is sovereign risk. But if a tax goes down, that’s f—ing fantastic. Excuse me.”

As if being the Minister responsible for broadcast standards isn’t enough, his utterance was broadcast live on ABC during an afternoon G-rated timezone. Oops.

He later apologised if anybody was offended.

Maybe Conroy was trying to get himself as a late-entrant on the “Blunder of the Year” award?

The usually dry-Minister has allowed more unguarded moments to be visible recently, fighting tears when telling the Labor faithful he was opposed to the selling of uranium to India because of the impact of the nuclear industry to family in the UK.

Warning: language.
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17 Responses

  1. @Jezza (the first original one) “What a donkey….whatever message he was delivering has been lost.”
    How does that figure? Look at the extra mileage his message got here, on YouTube, other channels, etc., etc.
    Now I’ll just wait two minutes for my Howard-era internet connection, the best I can get in suburban Wollongong, to upload this.

  2. There was such a pathetic story in the Daily Telegraph…. they pointed out that Conroy is against the paper and also how to make a complaint in fine detail…. and they closed it off to comments

  3. Anyone offended by the f-word shouldn’t watch the Midday Movie on 7 or GEM then. Doubt too many kids would have been watching the Press Club Lunch.
    @john – Replace him with mate Malcom, whose ridiculous alternative to the NBN he ripped to shreads?

  4. I missed this yesterday thanks to the ABC by them suddenly putting on the funeral service of the late Governer General on ABC NEWS 24 but the EPG stated National Press Club , even though it was shown on ABC1 i had already taped it for NEWS 24 , i wanted to watch this to see about the NBN , thankyou ABC for your late changes to programming.

  5. I wonder when the Australian media will grow up and stop using the silly little ** or — marks. It’s not as though there ‘s nobody reading who does’t know what’s meant. I’ve noticed the British press dropped this conceit some time ago as anybody who reads the Guardian online will know.

  6. Get over it people. It’s just a word used every day by a massive proportion of the population. The forces of moral outrage should be so vocal about many of the true outrages perpetrated in the World on a daily basis. Even the term the F bomb is so terminally twee.

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