Canberra Times editor Mark Baker has defended his newspaper’s decision to publish a revealing front-page photograph of Labor MP Maxine McKew in a short dress.
The broadsheet received complaints from readers after it ran the image of Ms McKew talking animatedly to former Prime Minister John Howard.
Click the link, then click the photo link (the little camera in the article) to see the contentious photo.
What do you think? I’d have cropped it.
Gosh, even I tell my daughters to ALWAYS cross their legs when wearing a skirt or a dress (“Criss Cross, Apple Sauce”). Apparently, they don’t do that down under (no pun intended).
That having been said, she does have some nice legs.
Other photos taken that day show her crossing her legs. By her posture in that photo it looks as though she is in the process of switching the position of her crossed legs.