Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Yesterday in Question Time Julia Gillard spoke at length, in detail, and passionately about how fed up she was with the Leader of the Opposition's sexist taunts and disrespectful attitude to her as Prime Minister. The outburst has been the talk of the town among women on social media.
However some commentators have criticised her hypocrisy in today announcing changes to welfare which will affect single mothers, her unwillingness to criticise Peter Slipper for his demeaning texts about women.
Author and commentator Susan Mitchell, though, believes it was a defining moment in politics.
A report offered by satellite to 270+ community radio stations by The Wire, a service run bt the Communmity Broadcasting Association of Australia.
http://www.thewire.org.au/storyDetail.aspx?ID=9702
See also http://radioadelaidebreakfast.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/tony-abbott-inter..., an interview on Radio Adelaide giving what a listener commented was a "great insight into the character of Tony Abbott".
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Equality end game has commenced, get real or get out of the way
With regard to Ms Gillard’s alleged hypocrisy, as anyone familiar with the Parliament would know, policy “which will affect single mothers” is devised and implemented by a blatantly sexist and discriminatory Cabinet (inner and outer) comprising twenty-four men and six women, not the Prime Minister.
Once again those attempting to excuse or conceal misogyny rely on misinformation to prosecute their cause.
It’s come time to clean up the mess an imbalance of power has made of the Parliament with provision for women’s and men’s legislatures electing a Cabinet of an equal number of women and men with conjoint women’s and men’s leadership.
Neither can the Left be allowed to continue to fester with misogyny; the organisations presided over by men with no coexisting female equivalent; the insistence by men on what is considered a women's issue when all issues affecting women are women’s issues, and on what women should do; the men who by their actions claim misogyny is a legitimate means to achieve social justice; and the incessant hindrance, trivialisation, disparagement and obstruction of women’s advancement and equality.
The end game in the achievement of equality between women and men has commenced, get real or get out of the way.