A SYDNEY academic has maintained she was deeply offended when Kevin Rudd told her her PhD was an excuse commonly used by young women “to avoid starting a family”.
The Prime Minister yesterday invoked what could be described as the “Scores strip-club excuse” when he claimed to have “no recollection” of making the comment to 26-year-old Nina Funnell at a function in January. “I have absolutely no recollection of saying anything like that, and you know something, they are not my views,” he said on ABC TV’s Insiders program.
“I have exactly the reverse views. I have been passionate about the role of women in the economy, in business, in society, pursuing their own individual careers.”
But Ms Funnell, a researcher with the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of NSW, refused to back down yesterday, likening the Prime Minister’s remarks to Prince Harry wearing a Nazi costume at a fancy dress party.

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