[New post] Australian parliamentarians meowing

Australian parliamentarians meowing

amarcnn | July 12, 2011 at 5:51 pm | Tags: CNN's Fareed Zakaria | Categories: GPS Show, Last Look | URL: http://wp.me/p1bJgh-26X

We often think our politicians are always bickering. Well, it might make you feel better to look at the case of Australia, where it seems lawmakers have quite literally been fighting like cats and dogs. Listen to the video above.

Yes. What you hear there was a meow and that was from a senator from Tasmania trying to interrupt a statement by Australia's first openly gay cabinet member Penny Wong. She gave her own back saying, "The blokes are allowed to yell, but if a woman stands her ground and you want to make that kind of comment, it's sort of schoolyard politics, right?"

This isn't a unique incident. It's part of a rash of meowing in the Australia's Parliament. It's gotten so bad that the Prime Minister has called on legislators to apologize.

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