Well put SF!

Need we say any more.

Don't be so silly Rhrosty, quite obviously all the bright ones voted for the Liberal/Country party coalition, or they would not have got elected. Just a quick look on here should show you that it is the dummies who vote Labor.

Perhaps the bright ones just don't want to spend their nights attending "community" organisation evenings most of their time so don't become MPs.

Labor of course have a problem with all those ex union officials, so they have to turn to their ladies to find members capable of actually reading the paperwork.

Obviously it's experience that matters, that's why Abbott is Minister for Women?

I wonder how the Liberals would have reacted if Gillard had appointed a cabinet with only one male minister?

Like the author, I support the merit principle. I don’t support gender quotas, and I despise Emily’s list. I would be mortified if I ever though I obtained a job because of my gender, not my ability.

But the gender mix in the Cabinet is so outrageously unbalanced that it is constitutes proof that the Liberal Party is NOT acting on the merit principle. It is no answer to say that there are no suitably qualified and experienced women available in Parliament. This begs the question of why there are no suitably qualified women available.

If males and females were equally likely to make it into a cabinet of 19 members, the probability of that cabinet containing just one woman would be one in 524,299

Fact 7: A politician’s work requires a lot of heavy lifting. Men have more physical strength than women.

Fact 8: Rosemary West was a serial killer and she was a woman. Therefore we shouldn’t have too many women in parliament.

Fact 9: Women are lascivious and lustful creatures, which makes them unsuitable for political careers as all MPs must take a vow of celibacy.

Fact 10: We’ve already had one PM and look what a disaster that was. On at least two occasions, she appeared in public with her grey roots showing

Correction: Above post should read 'female PM'.