Prime Minister 'not doing enough housework'

London - Tony Blair may be a hardworking Prime Minister, but his wife has revealed his housekeeping skills leave a lot to be desired.

Cherie Blair is in Australia to attend several conferences and to give a lecture next week at Perth's Edith Cowan University.

During a speech on women and human rights in Melbourne, she said that while more women now work in countries like Australia and Britain, they still have primary responsibility for housekeeping and child rearing.

To general amusement, Mrs Blair explained: "I am always quite astonished when I read surveys about how many hours (of housework) men are supposed to do, because in my experience they don't do any at all."

Mrs Blair, a prominent human rights lawyer, also criticised Australia's record on human rights - in particular its failure to adopt a bill of rights.

She said one of the first acts of her husband's Labour government when it came to power in 1997 was to incorporate into British law the European Convention of Human Rights.

She said: "New Zealand does have an incorporated Bill of Rights, part of which was the model for the UK.

"Now Australia is the only Western democracy which does not have a constitutional bill of rights or a specific act of parliament." -- Associated Press

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