Jessica Rudd (L) has apologised for comparing Parliament House to Lindsay Lohan movie Mean Girls. Source: AAP
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd's daughter has apologised for offending hardworking political staffers after comparing Parliament House to a film about mean girls.
In a controversial column for Cleo Magazine this week Jessica Rudd likened the halls of power in Canberra to the 2004 Mean Girls flick, starring Lindsay Lohan.
Former Rudd press secretary Jamila Rizvi took exception to the column on the Mamamia blog site.
"It's true that political staff are often young, idealistic and inexperienced," she said.
"But that doesn't make them sex-obsessed, shameless, lazy, or bitchy."
Most of the time politicians and their staff were "too bloody busy to be getting their Lindsay Lohan on".
"Why? Because they're running the country."
Ms Rudd has since offered an apology for the comments following a backlash on social media.
"To all staffers, journalists, politicians and anyone within a 100-kilometre radius of Parliament House: I am sorry," she wrote.
"I know how hard you work, what it's like to balance that with your family life and then to be beaten up about it at every dinner party... to have people say you're a waste of taxpayers money... if you're a journalist, that you spin lies."
But she reiterated her concerns that "cynicism has become the language of politics."
"People don't feel like they can have a conversation about politics without sarcastic quips."
That had led to "a lot of us, particularly young people, feeling like it is either too hard to talk about or too ugly".
Ms Rudd urged young people to get involved in the political debate, be idealistic and use their voices.
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