Who is Alexander Downer, the Aussie who spilled the beans on a drunken George P?

[pnwmom]

He's a high profile conservative, who strongly supported the US intervention in Iraq.


This piece is from 2014:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/02/alexander-downer-from-fishnets-to-foreign-minister

In 1996 a fresh-faced and smiling Downer allowed himself to be photographed wearing a fishnet stocking on his right leg as he put on a leopard-skin stiletto. It was said to be part of a charity initiative. The cartoonists were not so charitable.

Undeterred, Downer would entrench himself as a mainstay of the conservative John Howard-led government, serving as its foreign minister from 1996 to 2007 – a period that came to be dominated by terrorism and security issues.

Now he is heading to London, taking on the same high commissioner role occupied by his politician father, Sir Alexander Downer, from 1963 to 1972.

SNIP

[Sneederbunk]

1. Sibling of Debbie and Hunker.

[ProudLib72]

2. I can hear it now

It's not fair! He got Papa drunk so he would tell secrets. Why, that's a spy tactic. Oh, and what about his cross dressing? Huh, what about that?

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Tip of the Hat to

Alex Downer and to Al Franken for efforts to save Democracy.

[canetoad]

4. Downer is a pratt

He was Leader of the Opposition in the 90s. His approval tanked after the high heel stunt (although that was legitimately for charity) and some stupid, public school boy comments about domestic violence. He lost the party leadership to John Howard who went on to become Prime Minister.