I have met many politicians over the years, including Peny Wong, and used to have a similar view to Peter’s. She is very intelligent, listens to people, is on top of her brief and mostly competent. She also has what the ancient Romans prized in politicians – “gravitas”- and can utterly dominate a room by the force of her personality. I disagree with some of her policy positions as I do with parts of the platforms of both major parties. But I used to think she had the qualities to make a very effective leader.

Now I’m not so sure. Her participation in the “mean girls” attacks on Kimberley Kitching was vicious and relentless and may have contributed to Kitching’s early death. She was also involved in politically weaponizing the Brittany Higgins rape allegation. We have given vocal support to Ukraine but could have done more in practical terms: the decision to bury our Taipan helicopters when Ukraine asked for the to be donated was not a good look (though this was more of a defence than foreign affairs decision). And Wong’s handling of the Middle East conflict has been poor and unprincipled.

More broadly, Peter’s list of Wong’s achievements are mostly her simply doing her job of advocating and implementing her government’s policies. There’s nothing wrong with that, but I don’t see anything in his list that marks her as particularly suited to be PM. And his wish list of things he would like her to do is, as mhaze points out, risibly unrealistic.

mhaze also makes a good point about Labor turning to female leaders to dig them out of holes of their own making. A similar happened here in WA with Carmen Lawrence

It couldn't get any more stupid, or could it ?

#It couldn't get any more stupid, or could it ?#.. Ind.,

Staggering!

It’s thinking such as Bowden’s, which was a direct cause for the demise of Christian morality, supplanted by personal ethics. The Bowden’s of this world consider themselves greater than God himself!

Even the Pope has fallen victim to emotional clap trap as a guiding principle for Liberal Catholics.

“Onward Christian Soldiers, marching as to war” was a warning to Christians not to make way for compromise and appeasement. Look at the mess of the West from appeasement policies and rainbow ideology espoused in this article. What cowards are the elite by-products of the current University output: There are loud calls for Trump to early on, stamp on the current crop of traitors in Academia who, like this poor lost soul Bowden, turn the guns on tradition and those that wish not to fall for the con job preached from the secular pulpits at University by the same!