Sophie Mirabella, the Liberal Party’s own jackboot jenny (pictured above at her wedding, along with the rest of the Munsters) is copping some heat from her own constituents in Indi, who aren’t happy at her boycott of Kevin Rudd’s apology to the ’stolen generations’. Today several hundred of them gathered in Wangaratta to offer their own ’sorry’, since their own local MP thinks it’s all just a bit of a big fib. The placards lampooning ‘Sieg Heil Sophe’ weren’t kind; her affection for applying lipstick with a hose seemed to attract particular attention, as did her lack of connection with her electorate (before moving to Indi, St Cath’s girl Sophie probably thought “the bush” was Studley Park or Eltham).

One geriatric supporter of Sophie rushed to her defence on Seven News:

“Did Hitler apologise? Did Germany apologise to the Jews for the Holocaust?!?”

Yes, several times actually.