Our Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, apologised for losing his temper on a Royal Australian Air Force flight in January when questioned at the G20 last week. He had lost his temper because he had only been offered red meat as his meal.

It was bad PR for the PM because it overshadowed his participation in the success of the G20. It was made worse because his press secretary had previously denied it.

-6 to Kevin

The RAAF was portrayed as being deliberately disrespectful of the PM as part of a dispute with the Defence Minister.

-2 to the RAAF

For Malcolm Turnbull it was only a minor PR win when it should have been bigger. He is not getting much traction.

+4 to Malcolm

However, the Opposition’s Agriculture spokesman, John Cobb, announced that it was possible that Mr Rudd was just suffering from a lack of iron in his diet:

Farmers probably understand why he might have anger issues or a mental meltdown while on a red meat free diet.

He managed to deflect the potential damage to the livestock industry.

Ten points to John Cobb.