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venetia_sassy) wrote2012-10-10 11:45 pm
venetia_sassy) wrote2012-10-10 11:45 pm
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I may not always agree with her but this is awesome
I haven't been following politics very closely these past six months or so (brainfog+politics=much confusion) but I am cackling with glee over Prime Minister Julia Gillard's speech in response to Opposition Leader Tony Abbott:
"I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man, I will not. And the government will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. Not now, not ever. The leader of the opposition says that people who hold sexist views and who are misogynists are not appropriate for high office. Well, I hope the leader of the opposition has got a piece of paper and he is writing out his resignation. Because if he wants to know what misogyny looks like in modern Australia, he doesn't need a motion in the house of representatives, he needs a mirror."
Oh, you go, Julia!!!
The leader of the Greens, Christine Milne, later made very good comments on the double standards in politics; Abbott whined about Labor playing the 'gender card'.
This comes after shock jock Alan Jones was finally sat on for making nasty comments - he was giving a speech to a Liberal Party lunch and joked that Gillard's father, who had died a few weeks earlier, must have died of shame. People laughed. Now advertisers have pulled out of his program and Jones is whinging that he's a victim of 'cyber-bullying'. I do not think that term means what you think it means, you nasty bit of work who is finally being called on your nastiness.
Oh, did I mention that Abbott claimed that the government should have 'died of shame' already? This had no relation to Jones' remark, no relation at all. You utter twit.
"I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man, I will not. And the government will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. Not now, not ever. The leader of the opposition says that people who hold sexist views and who are misogynists are not appropriate for high office. Well, I hope the leader of the opposition has got a piece of paper and he is writing out his resignation. Because if he wants to know what misogyny looks like in modern Australia, he doesn't need a motion in the house of representatives, he needs a mirror."
Oh, you go, Julia!!!
The leader of the Greens, Christine Milne, later made very good comments on the double standards in politics; Abbott whined about Labor playing the 'gender card'.
This comes after shock jock Alan Jones was finally sat on for making nasty comments - he was giving a speech to a Liberal Party lunch and joked that Gillard's father, who had died a few weeks earlier, must have died of shame. People laughed. Now advertisers have pulled out of his program and Jones is whinging that he's a victim of 'cyber-bullying'. I do not think that term means what you think it means, you nasty bit of work who is finally being called on your nastiness.
Oh, did I mention that Abbott claimed that the government should have 'died of shame' already? This had no relation to Jones' remark, no relation at all. You utter twit.