'Julia is a role model for our female young'
How deceived can a person be?

I find it interesting that you can tell to about 95% accuracy, the income source of the writers or posters on this subject.

Those sucking on the public teat, commonwealth, state or local government always seem to assume that there is plenty more public teat to go round for their chosen depressed/oppressed/disadvantaged or what ever they are.

They never appear to notice that many of the tax payers supplying the nourishment at that teat, are at about the end of their capacity to do so.

It is time to call stop to all new welfare loads, & allow the battered tax payer to get their head above water, if only for a couple of years.

The assumption is that for Juliar to be tough, she has to cave in to the greens?

I am woman hear me lie.

I am academic female hear me not think.

Oh dear, I see from some comments that I should have put up a "Warning, Satire" as well as a "warning gender bias."

I was being sarcastic, Runner. I don't really think Julia is a role model for our girls. My tongue was in my cheek.

SM and individual,

Have either of you any more deep and meaningful reflections to impart?

I know you've both plumbed the depths of your intellects and political expediency to give us your valuable commentary thus far. I'm sure, however, there's more where that came from.

Squeers has summed up the contemporary political landscape in Australia beautifully. Both sides are behaving in exactly the same manner. Jennifer, it seems, is merely highlighting Julia's lack of feminine empathy as an attempt to "out-tough" the blokes....and in the process she is undermining the bedrock upon which our humanitarian values rest.