Dead Digger’s parents angry over At Home with Julia sex scene with flag

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‘At Home with Julia’ portrays the Prime Minister and Tim Mathieson having sex in the PM’s office while draped in the Australian flag. Image: ABC
Source: Herald Sun




UPDATE 11.49am: THE parents of a Digger killed in Afghanistan have slammed the ABC for disrespecting the Australian flag with a satirical sex scene depicting the Prime Minister.


An episode of At Home with Julia, which airs tonight, features actors playing Julia Gillard and her partner Tim Mathieson canoodling on the floor of the PM’s office draped in the Australian flag.

The episode has angered the parents of Victorian soldier Lieutenant Marcus Case, who was killed in action in Afghanistan earlier this year.

“We are disgusted at the use of the Australian flag in such a disrespectful manner as in At Home With Julia,” they wrote in a letter to the Herald Sun.

“We should remember the number of servicemen, our son included, who have given their lives defending the true significance and meaning of the Australian flag.

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“Such men are buried under this flag with the respect and honour it and they deserve.

“To abuse the flag’s significance as the ABC has done is a disgrace.”

Ms Gillard said this morning she found aspects of the program funny, but refused to be drawn on the sex scene.

Speaking on ABC radio, Ms Gillard said she had watched the first episode but did not plan to view any more of At Home with Julia.

“I think aspects of that first episode were funny but I’ve got more to do than sit around watching ABC TV,” she said.

Pressed further on the sex scene that will screen in tonight’s episode, she refused to speak any more on the matter.

“I’m not engaging in commentary about this and I’m not going to help you with a cross-promotion,” she said.

Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten today said it was “poor taste” to depict the PM having sex under the Australian flag.

Mr Shorten, who is portrayed in the TV show as a dog, said he respected the concerns raised by the Case family.

“I think it’s very tasteless,’ he said.

“They’ve got the Prime Minister in a flag, I find it personally tasteless. I don’t believe in censorship. I can respect the views of the family. Just because something’s an attempt at humour doesn’t disqualify it from being in poor taste.”

A Coalition MP yesterday called for the ABC’s funding to be reviewed, describing the episode as a “pathetic and disrespectful” denigration of the Prime Minister’s office.

Liberal and National MPs savaged tonight’s scheduled episode of the sitcom.

Describing the scene as “sick” and an offence to war veterans, Coalition MPs in a party room meeting urged their colleagues to “make a stand”.

Victorian National Party MP John Forrest said abuse of the flag should not be tolerated and called for a debate on whether the the episode should screen.

“I’m thinking about my late father who lost three brothers for that flag,” he said. “The veterans are going to go ballistic.”

Mr Forrest said British comedies such as Yes Minister used satire without such disrespect.

“I wonder if the ABC would have dared do this if (the Prime Minister) wasn’t a female,” he said.

“I’m getting handwritten letters about how (constituents) are disgusted. It’s a mockery of women.”

Liberal MP Teresa Gambaro told party-room colleagues they “should look at ABC funding”.

Ms Gambaro later told the Herald Sun taxpayers would question why money was spent on offensive material.

She said: “It shouldn’t be spent on pathetic and disrespectful depictions of the Prime Minister.”

A heraldsun.com.au voteline of about 5000 readers last night was split over whether At Home with Julia had gone too far.

The ABC said the scene was logical in the context of the episode and not “shoe-horned in gratuitously”.

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4 Responses to “Dead Digger’s parents angry over At Home with Julia sex scene with flag”

  1. Pat Drummond says:

    The whole series started as a political satire and I particularly enjoyed the portrayal of the Independents in Episode 1. The comedy seemed to be initially focused on political rather than personal targets. Some of it I found hilarious and, like many, I revelled in the capacity of Australian Society to allow such parody of our leaders as being a sign of the extent of our Freedom. I must admit, though, as the series has progressed I am becoming more than a little uncomfortable. Not so much about the use of the flag, as so many rabid royalists are; but in the way that the show’s producers are turning it into a disparaging examination of what is, after all, a real and identifiable domestic relationship. This can’t be cast as the activities of purely fictional characters, and the invasive portrayal of Julia’s relationship with Tim is not something anyone else would suffer without launching substantial slander litigation. I don’t agree with Censorship but I do think the series has currently slipped over the line between the ‘fair game’ political arena and the ‘off limits’ private lives that Australia’s “Fair Go’ protocols that have always previously respected.

  2. FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Chris Roubis says:

    Julia Gillard has no chance of launching any slander litigation against her bosses.

    The same Jewish mob that runs our Australian Government also run the corporate ABC.

    Dead diggers parents need to get over their emotional issues and move on…
    There is something wrong with you if you cannot laugh at that scene…

    Our flag does not represent the people, so why die for it?????

    We should all be angry at the parents dead digger for doing the criminal deeds of our government.

  3. Kate says:

    And here I was, under the impression that Australian soldiers fought to keep the people of Australia safe from ‘commies’ and all the rest.

    The things they teach in schools these days! So not only was I wrong with my hippy beliefs about war, the education system was ALSO wrong? How unusual!

    It really does need to be updated so that kids can be taught accurate information about Australia’s past.
    Seeing as this is a secondary source, that should be quite easy.

    Australian soldiers fought and died in wars for the Australian flag. That really does make me feel a whole lot better about Australia’s motives for killing people all around the world.

    Now I can’t even believe my conclusion from TEE history: “At least their hearts were sort of in the right place”.

    You really do learn something new every day.

  4. FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Chris Roubis says:

    LOL Kate, Communism wasn’t the enemy at all. Back in those days, they made us feel scared about communism for control, now they are making us feel scared about muslims, next it may be aliens.

    Check out the speech that JFK broadcasted to the world, that got him killed straight after.. he was a man that didn’t bow down to the zionists.

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