cont'd ...

Dear Suse,

As Julia Gillard said in response to Alan Jones's
comment about tying her up and throwing her into
the sea, "Don't they know that witches don't drown?"
She's not about to disappear any time soon either.
:-)

Susie and Foxy,

http://www.news.com.au/national-news/abbott-flees-reporters-after-asylum-seekers-drown-on-way-to-australia/story-fncynjr2-1226728862846#ixzz2gAeNwwTx

Get a load of our shonky excuse for a Prime Minister scuttling away from questions concerning the latest asylum seeker tragedy.

He's downright embarrassing.

Dear Poirot,

It's more than embarrassing.
It's sad for us all.
He's obviously run out of slogans and scripts and now
doesn't know what to do. Won't he be great internationally?

Foxy,

"He's obviously run out of slogans and scripts and now
doesn't know what to do. Won't he be great internationally?"

That's exactly what's happened.

Indeed, he'd have to check it out first with Sir Humphrey Credlin before he'd be given the all clear to deploy her latest script.

"The women's movement would be well advised to distance themselves from her as quickly as they can, the mere thought of her brings a nasty taste to the mouth of most people."
No doubt Daddy Hasbeen said the same of Germaine Greer, and Grandpa Hasbeen defiantly said it of Emily Pankhurst. Did you know not one of the fore mentioned women could whip up a decent batch of scones,shocking. I ask you, what did they ever achieve? Although I do believe Mr Pankhurst was rather partial to Emily's chocolate brownies. LOL.
Some people, men and women. have this notion in their heads that women should fit a certain mold, regardless of their achievements, they are seen as failures and therefore failing their gender in some way. Gillard is a prime example of this complex. She could have fixed world poverty, stopped all wars, saved the planet etc and still have been seen as a failure for no other reason than she didn't fit the mold, a woman in a mans world.

Dear Paul,

Yes, many a man thinks himself extremely sensitive
simply because he's easily put out.

In this country the belief that everyone should be given
a "fair go" runs deep but as John McTernan pointed out
at the same time there exists a very powerful sense of
mateship, male values, and a male-oriented culture.
It was the tension between these two characteristics
of Australian life that was the back-drop to Julia Gillard's
Prime Ministership.