Former government minister Mal Brough, now an opposition Liberal National Party candidate at national elections in September, said it was devised by a non-party member who thought it would be ‘humourous’. Brough told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation he had not seen nor approved the menu and was ‘deeply apologetic’.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was linked to a quail with ‘small breasts and huge thighs on a menu drawn up by the opposition Liberal Party. File pic