Sigh.

Richard Neville made a clever spoof of a John Howard speech, and posted it on a website called johnhowardpm.org. (PDF of the site here).
Then the Prime Minister’s office had the site ‘disappeared’ secretly. Neville was not informed. Melbourne IT just did it, then fessed up a couple of days later.

In the normal course of action, you’d normally expect the author of such a spoof to be asked to remove it. Didn’t happen that way here. A quiet word in the ear of Melbourne IT and it was taken down.

Secretly.
Gee they are pretty sensitive in the PM’s office, aren’t they? If you are strong and confident, you’d just laugh it off, you’d think. But no.