Bill Shorten’s statement to Kyle and Jackie O that he went into a strip club once or twice, but left “as soon as I realised what it was”, is an instant bullshit classic, right up there with Bill Clinton’s statement on marijuana. Well, we’ll take him at his word, but one veteran from his student politics days remembers it differently.
“The Victorian Labor Right loved lapdance clubs! They were new and ‘cutting edge’ at the time. They used to frequent Santa Fe in Russell St, next to the (now gone) Greater Union cinema. Made them feel like they were Scarface or something.”
Sounds like Bill might have wandered in and left. He tried it, but he didn’t impale.
Is it a crime to go to a strip joint? I don’t think it is, yet, so leave it alone, there’s real stuff to worry about such as the proposed death of Medicare and the real death of The Reef.