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Julia's misogyny speech 10 years on : Comments
By Everald Compton, published 20/10/2022It is the finest speech I have ever heard in an Australian Parliament.
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I have nothing against Julia. And she was treated very badly by some people because she was a woman - I admit to thinking that a helicopter could be landed on her backside - but her reaction to what she decided was misogyny queered the pitch for any future women Prime Ministers. In fact, Julia and those like her still in politics are the reason why capable, good women, won't touch politics with a barge pole; and why it is accepted that there needs to be quotas for women.
I hope she turns out to be a better Commissioner for early childhood learning in South Australia, the state she grew up in, than she was a politician.
Any man who calls himself a "male feminist" needs to take stock. Women don't need patronising if they are as good as they say they are.