Australia’s disgraceful,  incompetent parvenu  in charge apologizes, kind of:
“The Prime Minister has no doubt that Alabama is a wonderful state and is sure the people of Alabama will see the comments as nothing more than a light-hearted joke.”
So Alabama is a  “wonderful state”  and the rednecks will forgive him for being stoopid?
Not.
“I’m going to go to the zoo and punch a kangaroo in protest,” one reader emailed the Alabama The Birmingham News .
Yeah, well, what more can I say?
KRudd’s a dickhead, and this sort of reaction is to be (unfortunately) expected…