Excellent article.

The well documented tirade of sexist abuse directed towards women leaders in the world today is nothing more than a pimple on the arse of the demolition of male privilege in the achievement of equality at the source of the reproduction of culture currently sweeping the globe.

Australian women have already cast aside such infantile nonsense having gained experience in all the principle roles of governance, Governor-General, Prime Minister, High Court justice, Attorney-General, Speaker in the parliament, Premier and so forth.

Sexism is ultimately eliminated with balance.

The task at hand is to establish balance between women and men in the constitutional, bicameral, parliamentary method to which the populations of most modern democracies, Australia, the UK and the USA for instance, have become accustomed.

To consider otherwise is to ignore the tide of history.

Balance in leadership is achieved with conjoint women’s and men’s leaders, the male and female co-chairs of Australia’s First Peoples Assembly, for instance.

Balance in Cabinet, the boardroom of parliament, is achieved with the appointment of an equal number of women and men.

Balance in representation, the Houses of Parliament which appoint Cabinet members, is achieved with dedicated women’s and men’s legislatures, the women’s elected by women and the men’s by men.

Constitutional reform is all that’s required, a referendum one Saturday on the question “do you support equal rights between women and men in the Constitution”.

The way forward is perfectly clear, and with commentary of the quality Dr Scutt presents, self evident to any clear minded citizen, although obviously not to those who continue to engage in lateral violence against women.

Pericles, I endorse your comment.

Julia's incompetence and political naivety and Machiavellian nature has set back the women's cause at least 30 years.

The harder she tries, the more the public reject her. Why doesn't the LABOR Party get rid of her now and put Tanya in her place.

That is the only chance the ALP will have of contesting the next election.

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Hi Jocelynne,

Sadly Jocelynne you analysis isn't as all encompassing as you think.
The Rudd/Gillard Governments have simply been bad Governments and it is a case of poor performance by both leaders teams just as much as the overall debasing lack of Prime-Ministerial leadership. I believe the leadership coup by the male dominated labor faceless MEN, poisoned Gillard's PMship before it started. That interfering clique has merely continued influencing her behaviour during her tenure.

It was also the case in Queensland recently with the Beattie/Bligh Labor disasters. Note many commentators now acknowledge many of Bligh's crisis were bought about by the actions of Beattie and his boys club. Many of those continued their mismanagrement, in ministerial positions, during Bligh's tenure and contributed greatly to labors crushing defeat.

In Bligh's case as in Gillard's case blame is being and has been laid solely at Bligh's and Gillard's feet.

I might also add Joan Kirner, who I admire hugely, was delivered a similar raw deal by male dominated labor boy club elites. Yet it has been acknowledged her defeat was because of the Cain Governments mismanagement, but individual criticism of Cain and for that fact Beattie has been missing or not widely reported.

Do you see the pattern, Jocelyn? Yep it is mysognist Labor elites who have ensured criticism is laid at the feet of their female leaders, simply to cover their own cupability. That's where the sexism originates. It's where our media source their stories and criticism. The Liberals merely accentuate and use the endless opportunites that are provided.

But here is the greatest 'crime'.

Labor's poor leadership choices and the leaders subsequent, to be fair often unavoidable, behaviour is causing a backlash in the community.
Personal anecdotal evidence, in Queensland, is suggesting, to me, there is a rejection of female leadership and indeed female involvement in politics simply because of the very poor performances of Gillard and Bligh.

Analysis of the Qld State and Local elections would probably confirm that trend.

Regards

Oops sorry for misspelling Jocelynne in the body of the post.

The Labor Party would do very well in the next election if it appointed stalwarts McClelland and Macklin to it's leadership. Both are respectable, command respect across Australia and are proven performers.

did not think it would be long before the sisterhood cried wolf. Maggie Thatcher seems to be ignored by the sisterhood even though she did Great Britain a huge favour by stopping the union rot that we have here in Australia. To many of the Labour party's women were trained in the union movement having an attitude of entitlement like many of their men. Even fish and chip shop workers are more in touch with the public than professional union/political hacks. Claim victim status all you like but it was not a man stabbed a sitting PM in the back and made many promises before blatantly lying to the public and all to hang onto power.

The author listing the carbon tax as some sort of achievement is the same as saying that Craig Thomson did good for his members. Everyone except a few ignorant know it is a massive con.

Well, hello again whistler.

>>Constitutional reform is all that’s required, a referendum one Saturday on the question “do you support equal rights between women and men in the Constitution”.<<

I think we may have covered this ground before.

The Constitution, as you very well know, but are somehow unable to recognize or accept, already supports equal rights between women and men.

Point me to the bit that says otherwise.