Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has shown how spectacularly out of touch with the modern world he is by quite literally laughing the idea of teaching coding out of parliament.
The Australian PM was asked by Labour Party opposition leader Bill Shorten if he would guarantee that coding would be taught in primary schools in Australia.
Well rather than tackle this very relevant question Mr Abbott decided to make light of the fact it was even suggested saying.
"Do you want to send them all out to work at the age of 11? ... Is that what he wants to do? I mean seriously? Seriously?"
We can only assume this was a brief moment of ignorance on the PM's part because his response sounded like Shorten had suggested the reintroduction of workhouses.
To clarify, he hadn't.
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