The notion that Teflon John Key actually thinks Labour's Kelvin Davis backs child molesters, rapists and murderers is ludicrous.

Should he have said it? Of course he shouldn't have.

Should Parliament's Speaker have pulled him up on it? Yes, he should have.

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Was Kelvin Davis right to have badgered him in a Parliamentary corridor, calling him gutless? No he wasn't.

The badgering's been painted as an orchestrated media stunt with television cameras at the ready. In fact it occurred while the cameras were there anyway, badgering the politicians as they made their way into Parliament's bear pit.

And he didn't bale him up, as had been claimed. He made the comment as Key was passing by. And he wasn't manhandled out of the way, as has also been claimed, by one of Key's ever present, cup-toting cops. The cop simply extended his arm, as he always does, as his charge makes his way through the media melee.

Was Key right in exploiting the incident? That's debatable, but it's not the first time abuse has been hurled at a politician in the corridors of sour.

Were MPs right to storm out of the debating chamber? One would have thought the chamber was there for debate, to take issue with the PM's outburst. And besides, the abuse was directed at Kelvin Davis.

But several Green female MPs say they've been the subject of assault and they took personal offence at it. They should have raised it with the Speaker at the time, and for the Greens' Jan Logie to claim Key and David Carter don't take the concerns of sexual abuse seriously is ridiculous.

So let's put all of this into some sort of perspective and let's not forget who's responsible for all the turmoil. The budgie smuggler Tony Abbott. The world's a better place since he lost the leadership to Malcolm Turnbull, who on this one is caught between a rock and a hard place.

There's no sympathy in Australia for foreigners, even if they are Kiwis, who break the law there and he's facing his first election within the next year. To go soft on them now is likely to backfire on him. Have you noticed how meek the Aussie Labour Party's been on this one?

But there's also no sympathy for flouting human rights and on that, the Aussie politicians stand rightly accused.