Photo: © 2010 AAP/DEAN LEWINS

During a snappy debate in Parliament yesterday, the Opposition's Education Spokesman, Adrian Piccoli, complained of "constantly being sexualised by the Premier".

It followed a retort from the Kenneally that Piccoli should "buy a new suit".

"I take great offence at constantly being sexualised by the Premier," replied Piccoli.

"If it is not my suit, it is my hair or the words I invent ... I take great pride in my hair and my clothes."

Piccoli's Coalition colleague and the former sex discrimination commissioner, Pru Goward, writes in today's Daily Telegraph that the Premier's "throwaway sexualised references constitute exactly the sort of sexism for which male leaders have been roundly condemned by women in the community."

While the Speaker told the Premier to take note of the concerns, he also called it the worst point of order he had heard in his three years in the role.