Australian PM savages Big Brother after sex attack claim

Prime minister John Howard called today for the Australian version of Big Brother to be axed after a woman on the show claimed two male contestants sexually assaulted her.

The centre-right government has referred Network 10’s Big Brother – a fly-on-the wall series in which a group of strangers live together and compete for a cash prize – to the television standards watchdog over the incident on Saturday, communications minister Helen Coonan’s office said.