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Julia Gillard ~versus~ Preston KFC

I’ve been mucking about on Twitter today, trying to track down a story about a poster. It seems that once upon a time, a few months ago, a poster appeared in the window of the Preston KFC (128 Bell Street). The poster contains a really awful sexist joke about Julia Gillard, one which may be traced back a few years. The earliest online example I could find of the poster in question appeared in July 2011…

…but the KFC theme has its origins in similar jokes made about Hilary Clinton back in the ’90s (as documented by snopes.com and indirectly referred to in a recent column in The Australian about #menugate). Anyway, to cut a long Twitter story short, the writer Anne Summers assures me that, based on a conversation she had with a journalist who witnessed it, the poster did indeed appear at the KFC in question. The only other detail I think worth adding at this stage is that local (Darebin) Greens councillor/comedian Trent McCarthy apparently contacted the shop and got the following response:

See also : Anne Summers, ‘More in Anger: The politics of gender in Australia in 2013’ (Emily’s List Oration 2013), June 19, 2013 [PDF].