Foxy, in The Greens there is encouragement for women to contest ballots. When Cate Faehrmann stepped down from the NSW LC to contests the Federal Senate, the ballot to fill the casual vacancy was open only to women. A strong field of about 9 or 10 nominated and I was very pleased that Mehreen Faruqi was selected by the membership. To show that Mehreen's win was not a case of a jobs for the girls Mehreen won the very winnable second spot on the open ticket for the up coming 2015 election behind John Kaye, Mehreen defeated a number of good male and female candidates to get second. We hope to see Jenny Leong in parliament next year also, in the new seat of Newtown. Jenny would be an excellent choice. Labor have a strong candidate as well in Penny Sharpe. it will be a close contest between the two.

http://nsw.greens.org.au/content/greens-announce-preselection-candidates-newtown

'For example such groups might include the ALP, Greens, ABC, SBS, Fairfax, humanities academia, NGO’s, civil rights and refugee advocates. How can we possibly know this? We can evidence this by simply observing their reaction to their adopted “words”. Just mention any one of these words and the reaction will be the same from all groups, autonomous unities forming self referential networks. '

hit the nail on the head Spindoc

Suse,

"Agreed, however one wonders how they can infiltrate a masculine system if all the males working in that system prefer to leave it masculine, and they will have the last say?"

That's simple....women choosing to go along with any system, perpetuate it. They're not changing anything "about the system", instead merely accommodating themselves more comfortably within it.

probably more than anywhere the state education system shows the total failure of feminism in action. Feminist dogma and behaviour have driven or made it unadvisible for men to become teachers. As a result we have poor standards, few role models for boys and the only solution given for failure being more and more money. As usual nothing will improve because feminism (selfishness) triumps what is good for society.

Early Australian women's activists also worked for the rights of men on issues such as the World War and conscription and many were involved in the labour movement.
The problems began with the Americanisation of Australian popular culture in the 1960's cand '70's and the adoption of so called fourth wave Feminism promoted by Jewish-American intellectuals, it's a school of thought which is explicitly anti male, anti western and anti White.
The fourth wave is all about revenge, retaliation and forcible redistribution of wealth and "power" along gender and racial lines.
While I may not agree with most of the views of early women's advocates such as Louisa Lawson, Adela Walsh or Vida Goldstein they are at least credible figures who were committed to Socialist equality for all, there are no Feminists of that stature around today.
Despite considerable ideological differences I have a lot of time for the present men's rights movement (the self styled MHRA's) but they made the right decision in eschewing the term "masculinist" in favour of Men's Human Rights Activist.
The Men's rights movement more closely resembles the old, pre 1960's movements with men and women working together to address the whole spectrum of family and gender issues and it's a milieu which encourages women to take part,speak up and take the lead.
Maybe instead of Feminism the concerned female citizen could describe herself as a Women's Human Rights Activist?

Foxy, about the only good thing about the yanks electing an idiot like Obama president, was it saved them from the much bigger mistake of electing a much bigger idiot in Hillary Clinton.

Bill gave her a few jobs while he was president including health, with huge fanfare. She stuffed up mightily, & ran away, thankfully.

We will know that the yanks are gone, & have a self destruct wish, if they are stupid enough to elect her anything. If they do, start your kids on their mandarin lessons immediately, they WILL need it.

Julie Bishops problem has nothing to do with any old boys club. It has to do with the dreadful redhead she has to live down. Any lady, having a serious job, when the last woman with such a job was so disastrous must be very hard. Thank god she is up to it, we're in enough trouble from Gillard, & can't afford any more.