Foxy,
Yeah, but the people who post on this site are a cut above the rest so we can see things from multiple perspectives, the bulk of electors are stupid and they vote for stupid reasons, Abbott got a poll boost over the MH17 disaster and Howard over Tampa.
Julie Bishop seems to be a decent, capable, intelligent woman who's good at her job...but that's all, she has no charisma, she's elegant and articulate but not engaging.
When you live in a society with universal suffrage and compulsory voting you get anomalies like Jacquie Lambie and Ricky Muir on the blockhead end of the spectrum and Nick Xenophon and Andrew Wilkie at the opposite end. It's a choice between a plate of yabbies and a beer or a piece of perch and a spumante, what we really need is a nice sashimi platter with a glass of champagne...every day.
You don't get to eat well by letting idiots vote.

Good old Clementine Ford has made a list of the things patriarchy has done for women and why Julie Bishop should be grateful, good, saves me doing it:
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/whats-so-wrong-with-being-a-feminist-20141103-11g2dw.html

Dear Jay,

But in a representative democracy such as ours
even "idiots" are entitled to representation.

Dear Jay,

Thanks for the link.

Excellent article.

Perhaps you'd better re-read it.

Poirot>> Perhaps you should tell daughterofgloin that she has all the empowerment and equal rights to sign herself onto this forum and post under her own username - progress!(saves confusion)<<

I believe it was a one off thing P.

Foxy,
Sure but idiots should be ruled by their betters,not their peers, trade unions were supposed to be the vehicle for political the expressions of the lumpenproles, without that guidance and basic political education they're no longer fit to vote at all.
You're smart, don't you find people of even "average" intelligence insufferable?

Re Clementine Ford, you'll notice that societies where formal equality is enforced with a gun in your back are the most enduring patriarchal systems? Ford's article could be re-titled "Things our fathers gave us".