Well since we're defying the adults with our "isms" we might as well go all the way and point straight at the big elephant in the room, or the senate chamber to be precise.
Women.
When Ms Hanson Young chokes up as she did (again) this week, rises to her feet and wails "How do you decide which children you're going to imprison on Manus and which ones you're going to imprison on Nauru?" we know why we're in this situation, a person who is that emotional and irrational has no business being in parliament.
I had a female family member with a background in corrections determined to come out of early retirement and go to work for SERCO so she could "Help the little children", she got the job and a week later the riots at Villawood happened, she rang them up and told them she'd found a better job and we never spoke of it again.
That's not to say the men are off the hook, Wilkie is as bad if not worse but if he and the other "Feminists"had to man up and be one of the boys instead of being allowed to show his "sensitive" side whenever he feels like it we might have a proper ,functioning state.
Women cannot run a state, they cannot build a strong nation, that's men's work, if you value either of those things you should agitate to have women removed from government and bureaucracy, if you value "equality' then get used to a constantly declining standard of living, more crime and more ethnic and religious tension because that's all such systems can offer.

J o M well,not related in my view to the thread.
But not totally wrong.
I hold the view SOME, even most in Parliament, Women let mum instinct blind them to the pragmatic reality's of politics.
Greens are, without doubt, far worse than most in this.
I remind every poster, while being unashamed at my own bias, entrenched by others insistence my world change to fit theirs, we are not alone.
Should some comments be seen overseas and used, we would be ashamed as a result.

Belly,
It's related to the preceding comments and the inevitable digression these threads take, most men are deeply concerned about race and about their posterity, as I said, nation building is men's work, today's atomic, career driven, consumerist woman only sees Nationalism or Racialism as a threat to her liberty and independance. It's one of those situations where the 60's reform culture, for all the real world good it did is now slowly pulling the rug from under it's own feet, the kind of reforms the Greens and other "do gooders" want will not be possible in a society which looks like Brazil or South Africa.

<< When Ms Hanson Young chokes up as she did (again) this week, rises to her feet and wails "How do you decide which children you're going to imprison on Manus and which ones you're going to imprison on Nauru?" we know why we're in this situation, a person who is that emotional and irrational has no business being in parliament. >>

Agreed Jay.

She’s a shocker! So incredibly narrowly focussed and misguided!

And she’s doing the Greens and hence the environment movement at the federal political level a great deal of damage.

JoM, Belly,

I wonder if either of you gentlemen consider it appropriate, or that I am qualified to comment on such things - being as I'm so emotional/irrational and all that....perhaps we should have never been given the vote - being as we're so emotional/irrational and all that....

Seeing that humans are such a flawed and savage species even when they're trying to protect their civilised state, I wonder why men are so puffed up about their lack of emotionality.

Poirot,
What's feminisms contribution to Nation/Society building ?