That Certain Sartorial Something ...

NSW Minister for Redfern Waterloo Frank Sartor has comprehensively put his foot in it, having apparently made some rather boneheaded comments about Aboriginal Housing Company chief Mick Mundine (uncle of boxer Anthony) on Sydney's Koori Radio this morning. To wit:

SARTOR: I couldn't be more genuine about this, but - you know, the good thing about this is we're at least having a public debate, Mickey and I. It's good to see. I'm glad he wrote this long letter. Got him off his backside for a change. Hehee. He won't like that much, but I should say that to him more. `Get off your backside, Mick, and bring your black arse in here to talk to me about it.'

PRESENTER: That's not the way that a Minister should speak publically, should it?

SARTOR: No ... Mick and I joke with each other all the time. And I brought my white arse out there to talk to him. So let's just talk. Let's just talk is all I'm saying, you know?

A not-particularly-happy-in-any-way-shape-or-form NSW Premier Morris Iemma has had `heated' words with Sartor over the comment, which Sartor dismissed as a `friendly jibe', but he has so far refused to resign from the portfolio.

Bugger.