http://thehoopla.com.au/laugh-cry/

I had such a good laugh reading this article, I just had to share it with everyone :)

It seems a Minister called Michaelia Cash (OMG, a woman!) has a shiny new sign on her door saying "Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Women"!

Really?
So what is that then?
Are we supposed to forgive the PM for having only one woman in his cabinet because he now has a junior minister 'assisting' him with women?

Does he have a minister to assist him with men?
If not, why not?
Surely all you men out there should be outraged by this obvious political policy gender imbalance?

The article goes on to discuss our PM rocking up to his swearing in as PM in a taxicab.
Surely for this one auspicious occasion he could have dropped the budget card?
His 'digs' at the police barracks are embarrassing enough.

Our new PM sure has made an interesting impression in his first few weeks as PM.

You rely on a try-hard and not very funny comic entertainer for your news?

Any wonder you missed criticising Ms Julia Whatshername for her Minister for Women with Status.

The remainder of your post is just as ridiculous - throwing mud at the PM for taking a cab.

BTW, as if you would ever support representation for men, when sledging men is your favourite sport. You are foaming at the mouth since the change in government.

Maybe it is time you came out on something. It must be hard to keep up that story that there are 'men in your life who care for you'. Still, you never say there are any men that you actually care about. So at least in that you are likely being consistent with your preferences and choices in life.

It is going to be a very long six years for you.

Dear Suse,

Thank You for this thread. As voters we do need to face
the challenges before us and hold our leaders to
account. Not close our eyes and try to extract ourselves
from the messiness of political reality.

Dear OTB,

If you continue to base all of your discussions on
insults rather than reason - you will be ignored.
Deservedly so.

How do rags like that bit of garbage survive?

Are there really enough people around silly, enough to read the bit of crap, to justify publishing it?

Until I read some posts on it, I never realised there were so many delusional people in the country. I guess that explains how we get things like Rudd & Gillard floating to the top of the settling ponds.

OTB,

Yeah I reckon the Coalition will get two terms. It will take Labor that long to get its act together, assuming it can do so of course.
I think by two terms the voting public will also be fed up with the Coalitions back to the future retrograde style thinking.
We really do need a progressive third Party of some size and substance, the current options of Labor or Coalition are rather dreadful and no real choice at all.
Watching both parties in action over these last few years was a pitiful display of our supposed political talent. Is this the best we have, I hope not.
Ref the original post the country by now should be advanced enough and mature enough not to need specialist gender Ministries.The fact we do is a sad indictment of us as a supposed advanced civilised society.

SD

Dear Hasbeen,

The Menzies era has been described by some as a
time of unleavened bread. There are many voters who
feel that the current years ahead will provide
even less wholesome sustenance for the nation.

As for what's considered "good" media. That's very
subjective. Some swear by The Australian, The Daily
Telegraph, and others in the Murdoch fold where
information is misrepresented and key facts are left
out - as was recently done from leaked copies of
the draft IPCC report.

However as I stated in my earlier post, we do need to face the
challenges before us and hold our leaders to account -
not close our eyes and believe in slogans.