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Karl apologises to the Kiwis, and their ‘attractive livestock’

Yesterday Karl Stefanovic ruffled a few feathers with a bit of banter with an Indian cricket fan asking him who would be manning the 7-Eleven’s while the Australia v India cricket match played out, and suggesting New Zealanders were “dole bludgers”.

Inevitably today Karl was told to apologise on air, so he did – kind of – to “anyone across the ditch, or in Bondi, who took offence”.

“For my Kiwi brothers and sisters, calling you dole bludgers was an awful cheap stereotype and just not true” – Karl#Today9

Posted by TODAY on Thursday, 26 March 2015

“Calling you dole bludgers was an awful cheap stereotype – and just not true. As we all know, you can’t get the dole in Australia,” he intoned with a twinkle in his eye, before referencing jandles and their “attractive lot of livestock”.

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