We thought you knew women Tony, but then you do this
Prime Minister-elect, we've been through this! We've talked about it time and time again and we thought it was resolved. After you made the quip about the ironing and the housewives of Australia, remember? And those tricky historical abortion comments that kept cropping up and you couldn't quite explain away? And the time you seemed to imply our unmarried female prime minister was somehow living in sin?
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Prime Minister-elect, we've been through this! We've talked about it time and time again and we thought it was resolved. After you made the quip about the ironing and the housewives of Australia, remember? And those tricky historical abortion comments that kept cropping up and you couldn't quite explain away? And the time you seemed to imply our unmarried female prime minister was somehow living in sin?
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Really?
Clearly the fact that the election has been run and won by a side Maley doesn't much care for is giving her a bad case of the petties and huffies.
It seems to have escaped Maley that thousands of women also voted for Tony Abbott - women who are sensible, no-nonsense, practical types who don't care much about feminism and its screeching adherents.
Does Maley really think women care very much about numbers in a political cabinet? or are they more concerned with bread and butter issues like jobs, food on the table, health costs and availability and the increasing barriers to affordable child care?
Isn't it just possible women hope that the new government gets on with the serious business of righting Australia's listing ship, thus lessening the worry and concern that many everyday families carry about livelihood issues as an added burden to daily living rather than crying over something they can do little about and probably could not care less about?
Maley notes that quotas are generally a last resort. So, just what is Emily's List and why is it so active?
And why has it thrown up such duds as Joan Kirner, for example, who nearly bankrupted Victoria? A brief glance back and one sees other notables like Roxon et al who could be included with Kirner as shining lights of competence.
Unlike Labor, the Coalition believes in merit, competence and experience, which fact is generally reflected in the cabinet makeup and hopefully will also be reflected in ultra competent government.
The coalition believes in truthfulness and depth of thinking unlike that reflected by Maley and many of her equally vapid colleagues.
Posted by: ibbit | September 18, 2013 at 09:44 AM
The Labor mob have gone feral in the letters to the editor here in the west. Some consider an Abbott government to be the end of Australia as a functioning nation, and others are going spare about only one women in the cabinet and that it proves the truth of Gillards misogynist statement.
Personally, the rant of sick puppy socialists wounded by loss is music to my ears. If there was ever proof required that promotion based on gender rather than ability is a bad idea, you need look no further than the incompetent females in the last few Labor cabinets. Mind you, there are not many competent men in that socialist cabal either, so maybe they were the best they had. If so, Labor is stuffed for years to come.
Posted by: Jim Witt | September 18, 2013 at 10:30 AM
Maley, Connolly Buttrose, Summers and Emily's List, et al are prime examples of feminist "Group Think" that arrive at weird and ridiculous conclusions based upon hate and illogical argument.
Posted by: Allan | September 18, 2013 at 10:44 AM
Seriously, as a woman, I find Jacueline Maley and anyone of her ilk to be a retarded embarrassment.
It's only those insecure types who need to waffle on about numbers of gender in any group.
Ms. Maley...I don't want a female surgeon when I go under the knife...I want the best...regardless of gender. It's simple you twit.
Posted by: M.Fox | September 18, 2013 at 11:03 AM
I am sure Abbott is not going to take any notice, whatsoever, of the screeching Leftist banshees of the ABC and Fairfax Media.
They tried it for the last 5 years and he STILL was elected by 65%of the Australian people, of which half were women.
Yes, Abbott, is "really" going to worry about the feminist, socialistic crap put out by these harpies.
Posted by: Peter Simmons | September 18, 2013 at 07:20 PM