Grounds for TV sex complaint

Australia’s national broadcaster is facing calls for a funding review after a TV comedy showed a fictional prime minister Julia Gillard draped in the national flag after having sex on her office floor.

Conservative opposition MPs said the Australian Broadcasting Corporation overstepped the mark with a scene in which actors playing Ms Gillard and her partner Tim Mathieson cuddled naked and used the flag as a sheet.

Gillard has laughed off the controversy, but a government protocol officer said the national flag should not have been shown on the ground.