1. Tony Abbott in the election run-up, while huddling with a group of high school netball players for a photo opportunity, stated that, “a bit of body contact never hurt anyone”. The girls were giggling and having fun until that moment when deafening silence struck, leaving him looking less like a daggy netball dad and more like a dodgy netball uncle.
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2. Shortly after Labor dragged Kevin Rudd out of the cupboard to avoid a whitewash, the round-headed Brisbanite was trying desperately to lose his image as a dictatorial leader. About two months later, when the coast looked all clear, Rudd held a press conference in front of a secondary school project displaying photos of Hitler, Mussolini and Rommel.
3. The master of gaffes, Prince Philip, during the opening of a cardiac unit, told a Filipino nurse that, “the Philippines must be half-empty – you’re all here running the NHS [National Health Service]”.
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4. A few months later, Prince Philip, while talking to a highly qualified Polish research student at Cambridge, asked: “Did you originally come here to pick raspberries?”
5. One Nation candidate, Stephanie Banister, said, "I don't oppose Islam as a country, but I do feel that their laws should not be welcome here in Australia". After an international barrage of scorn and ridicule, she withdrew her nomination for the federal electorate surrounding Logan.
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6. Pop star Justin Bieber, while on tour in Amsterdam, stopped into the Anne Frank House Museum, leaving a comment in the guestbook saying, “Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a Belieber.” The world was aghast and wondered how he could compare his music to the holocaust where millions suffered. Oh, right.
7. Barely a week after a 13-year-old girl was ejected from the MCG for calling Aboriginal footballer Adam Goodes an “ape”, Eddie McGuire said that he’d do a great promo job for the upcoming ‘King Kong’ musical. The following week, McGuire appeared in every media outlet that would have him, backpedalling so fast he could have won the Tour de France in reverse.
8. "No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom," said Tony Abbott, of then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. The comment quickly went viral, becoming the butt of the world’s jokes.
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9. Brisbane chef, David Carter, mocked up a menu for a LNP fundraiser for election hopeful Mal Brough, which had a menu item called: ‘Julia Gillard Kentucky Fried Quail – Small Breasts, Huge Thighs & A Big Red Box’. Most quarters were either ducking for cover or looking for a human sacrifice, but the politicians came out unscathed, with Carter taking the blame calling it bawdy kitchen humour.
10. Embattled mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, while trying to deflect allegations of intimate relations with a staffer, responded to a sworn statement saying, “It says I wanted to eat her pussy and I have never said that in my life to her. I would never do that. I’m happily married and I’ve got more than enough to eat at home.”
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