CountryGa,
I think the policies for women and girls are quite well defined, but the policies for men and boys are not existant.

DOH!

So who do transsexuals vote for?

Women don't get more funding than men?
Is that why breast cancer gets 6.9 million in government funds, while prostate cancer (which kills the same number of people) gets 2.5 million?

Breast cancer gets 2.76 times the funding but causes the same number of deaths.
The lives (and votes) of women are 2.76 times more important than the lives of men.
http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/news/snapshots/cancer.htm

Here we go again with the "Women must be 50% of everything" nonsense.
Why?
To create better cardboard boxes, do 50% of the workers, 50% of the designers and 50% of the directors at the Waldorf Cardboard Box Company have to be women!

"All those sharp right angles, it's so macho.
Why don't we try something softer and more intuitive."

The reason for the left/right divergence is quite obvious.

Girls are presumed to need "protection", hence the leftist nanny-state bent of their parents.
Boys are expected to fend for themselves, hence the rightist bent of their parents.

From their parents, girls and boys internalise these beliefs and carry them into their own actions as adult voters.
Unconsciously, of course.

If women were more right wing a few decades ago, this is because at the peak of the feminist movement, the argument was for personal liberty (right wing).

Now feminists see the benefits (especially $$$$, but also political influence) of being a "minority" or "special interest group", they've moved to the left, as the right won't tolerate any of that "victim" nonsense.

Women will be MPs to the extent that that's what they want.
A swing of a few percentage points won't matter in a safe seat!

Maybe there just aren't that many women who want to be pathetic toads!
Come to think of it, there aren't that many female used car salespersons or game show hosts either.

It's a conspiracy to keep women smart!

Shockadilic,
I would agree.

These are the websites for the policies of the main political parties.

http://www.democrats.org.au/policies/
http://www.liberal.org.au/about/ourpoliciesplans.php
http://www.alp.org.au/policy/index.php
http://greens.org.au/election/policy.php

Each part has a policy for women, and these policies are growing every election.

One party now has a 45 page policy for women (2.6MB)

But not one party has a policy for men and boys.

If a party reduces their policies for women, or develops a policy for men and boys, then it will be said that the party has no interest in women.

So the parties have to keep increasing their policies for women, and whatever party gets in, they have to keep spending more and more to keep the women’s vote.

But these policies are not based on need.

Not one party has a policy for men and boys, and this is in a country that now has the highest rates of male youth suicide in the western world.