Why thank you, runner.

Are you intimating that more women in those roles equates to "incompetence and immorality"?

ie - Woman = incompetence and immorality.

Please correct me if I've misread your intention.

false compassion leading to over 1000 drownings should even be immoral even by your standards Poirot. Although you will probably find a way to 'rationalise ' it.

runner,

I realise that you have difficulty coming up with your own outrages.

So mouthing the anti-refugee propaganda employing false compassion regarding the drownings is the best you can come up with.

I don't believe you give a toss what happens to those people at all.

You've just found a "seemingly compassionate" hook to hang up your "we don't want 'em here" rhetoric on.

Pull the other one.

Poirot,
The most charitable assessment of Labor's affirmative action program would be to say that it empowers women who are just as corrupt or incompetent as the Labor men but at the end of the day the problem isn't gender it's the Neo Liberal and Fabian Socialist value systems.
We on the radical right understand that people like you are basically decent folk who just want to help "Those less fortunate" but taking responsibility for the way another etnic group's lives are to be lived is a backward step.
Normally when White people try to take over responsibility for the lives of non Whites and make special laws to govern them we call them out as White Supremacists. If you like I can provide you with a link to a very long lecture on the origins of White Supremacism delivered by a short Communist who speaks very quickly, it might be worth your while watching it, it certainly changed my views on White supremacy, Racism and Whiteness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gq77rOuZck

Oh yes, Jay...not to mention "Westerners" like to stomp around the globe disrupting and destabilising other ethnic peoples through military or economic interventions.

We take "responsibility" for the way ethnic people live their lives ad nauseam.....but we prefer to do it when they are safely tucked up in their home countries.

Strange how we act surprised and reassert our supremacy when things fall in a hole and those people start heading our way from distant shores.

Poirot,
Maybe perception of the issues are gendered after all,from what I've observed women tend to approach righting a perceived wrong by trying to revise and repair the past whereas men will try to take control over the future and ignore the past, I'd say that thesis is borne out in your comments and exemplified by yesterday's piece by Lyn Bender.
The ramifications of that thesis for political parties should be obvious, a 50/50 gender split in parliament would render the institution powerless to act on any bill and no progress would be possible on the material situation of Indigenous people.