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SYDNEY - A MUSLIM cleric who apparently said men have the right to drive their wives to have sex and if they're disobedient continues to be advised to apologise by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd hitting them. 'Under no circumstances is sexual assault allowable o-r appropriate in Australia,' Mr Rudd mentioned over cleric Samir Abu Hamza's noted comments in a sermon published on the web. 'I might call upon this Islamic cleric to publicly apologise and repudiate his remarks,' Mr Rudd said. The cleric mentioned in his sermon, called 'The keys to an effective marriage,' that it was a man's to demand intercourse from his wife when h-e felt like it, the Daily Telegraph noted. 'If the husband was to question her for a sexual relationship and she's planning the bread on the range, she must keep it and come and react to her husband, she must respond,' Mr Hamza was quoted as saying. H-e apparently scorned Australian regulations which will make it an offence for a guy to drive his wife to have intercourse, saying: 'Amazing, how do an individual rape his wife'? Mr Hamza also said law permitted men like a final resort hitting their wives but shouldn't bruise them o-r make them bleed, the paper noted. Mr Rudd said Australians wouldn't take any types of violence against females, adding: 'Nor are they appropriate in my view-to conventional Muslim theories.' The Daily Telegraph mentioned late this past year Mr Hamza stood by his sermon, that was sent in 2003 and published to the Web. A number one Islamic cleric, Sheikh Taj Aldin al-Hilali, was changed as Mufti of Australia in 2007 after developing a storm of protest when h-e described scantily-dressed women as 'discovered beef' welcoming rape. -- AFP