It's not a case of full-blown coulrophobia, that paralysing fear of clowns which afflicts so many people. But it's close.
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It's more a fear of dirty laundry - a kind of mysophobia, commonly known as germophobia. Understandable because there's been a lot of dirty laundry flapping about the past few days.
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price seems struck down by it. She took to the airwaves yesterday to decry the clown show the Liberal Party has become: "It's got to stop," she told Sydney radio station 2GB, revealing that she'd written to Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley to air concerns abo