"Act of low bastardry"

Ok
It was.

Now Tony Abbott's in trouble for using bad language. Do these idiots know what bad language is?

I remember years ago attending a meeting. A plan of action was discussed, but we knew that there was at least one person who would disagree just to be disagreeable and not make things flow. It was a good plan/approach, but I said "I don't know how that will go with X, you know how bloody-minded X is."

Someone in the meeting immediately berated me for using "bad language".

Judging by the charming language and abuse seen on some left-wing/alp supporting blogs I'm surprised that any abusive or bad language is even noticed by most of these people.