So it was the quail what done ’er in. Asked to give an example of the ‘outrageous sexism’ that brought down Julia Gillard, all wannabe US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton could produce was the ‘small-breasted quail with large thighs and a big red box’.

That this unoriginal joke (derived from an old KFC gag) on a chef’s hoax menu at an obscure Queensland LNP fundraiser should be the enduring legacy of the sexist torment supposedly suffered by our first female prime minister is, quite frankly, ludicrous.