Wishful thinking

The Abbott paternity saga is nothing if not interesting:

The former girlfriend of Health Minister Tony Abbott today denied misleading him for 27 years over the son he thought he had fathered.

"No, no, not at all," Kathy Donnelly told A Current Affair when asked if she had misled Mr Abbott over the paternity of Daniel O'Connor, the son they thought they shared.

Ms Donnelly said Mr O'Connor's father was a man named Bill, who had been a fellow art student 27 years ago.

She said the pair shared a flat with other art students and had a one-night stand, but they used contraception.

"... we were intimate and the next morning we both got up and said, 'Oh God'. We were good friends, flatmates and realised that was just not something to be repeated and it never was," she said.

I'm not privy to all of the details so I'm not about to condemn the mother. But, if Kathy Donnelly wanted a father with a future she wasn't going to pick a fellow art student, was she?