Article 38RNJ John Alexander's joke about rape 'utterly unacceptable' – Turnbull

John Alexander's joke about rape 'utterly unacceptable' – Turnbull

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Paul Karp
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PM says he agrees with decision of Liberals' Bennelong candidate to unreservedly apologise for joke he made 20 years ago

"Malcolm Turnbull has described a joke involving rape made by John Alexander as "utterly unacceptable" after the Liberals' Bennelong candidate apologised on Thursday for comments made 20 years ago.

In a video filmed in 1995 and posted to YouTube in 2011, Alexander tells a joke about "a black guy in Chicago" who had "witnessed a rape and he's been called into the court".

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