Stuff politicians shouldn’t wear

Tomorrow’s front cover of The Weekend Australian is gaining some attention after new health minister Sussan Ley donned a surgical latex glove for the cover story photoshoot.  

It’s part of Ley’s attempt sell the government GP co-payment plan… and to quote Yes Minister it might be a rather “courageous” communications strategy.

One possibly open to ridicule, as The Oz’s own sketch writer James Jeffrey noted on Twitter: 

And that was before the internet memes began: 
With some less than favourable comparisons being made:Even defence minister Kevin Andrews got dragged into this:

The jokes even saw editor of The Weekend Australian magazine Christine Middap attempt to defend the photoshoot, well kind of:

But on the plus side at least it wasn’t Alexander Downer (then opposition leader) in fishnet stockings…