GENDER WARS

Federal Politics was hotting up yesterday.
Every time the Labor Party gets into trouble they appoint women to clean up the mess. Who remembers Dr Carmen Lawrence Premier WA 1990,  or Joan Kirner Vic Premier 1992, and more recently in Qld Anna Bligh Premier 2011.

All these women inherited a mess from the their male Labor Premiers and then lost the state elections and were never given a chance to lead the party in good times. That is sexism in my book.
Now Labour has a front bench of many women who are trying to bamboozle the voting public into believing that somehow Tony Abbott is a women hater. The consistency of their story indicates that they are conspiring to destroy Tony Abbotts character and to hopefully increase their chances of regaining their lost support base and win another term. Its is a Labor Party tactic used before on many a time i suggest,  to use the women to destroy his support using gender warfare. The acting going on is amazing to say the least and i dont believe for one moment that Prime Minister Julia Gillard was not acting when she bought in her father into the parliamentary debate yesterday to call Mr Abbott a woman hater. In my opinion it was a misuse of the parliament for her to continue her attack on him in such a vile attempt against his character. Successful barristers can be the best actors when trying to sway a jury.

What Alan Jones said in private was both uncalled for and silly, because any father would be very proud to have a daughter become Prime Minister...it goes without saying and more especially from a union coal mining family. What the journalist did to make news of it was much worse by inciting and aiding and abetting these attacks using social media which is taking over the mainstream newspaper media and in so doing this journalist has inadvertedly helped in destroying his own newspapers' relevence in the market place. I doubt that any of the advertisers affected by the Alan Jones war will so easily forget the newspaper group who interfered with their advertising messages.

The poor policies of the Labor Party cannot be shouldered by the Prime Minister alone who is really not leading the government by a majority of Labor Members but a coalition of independents and the Greens who dictated that the price of government for the Labor Party would be ... the introduction of a Carbon Tax. Julia Gillard said "there would be no carbon tax under a government I lead"...was not untrue because she does not really lead a govt of Labor Members, but a govt inluding the Independents and the Greens who I would suggest are really ruling the roost. It a matter of interpretation as to whether a political lie was told to avoid losing votes, but its not an unusual event in Australian politics.

Having said the above, i do feel that opposition party members need to be utilised better in parliament for the money they earn rather than saying their policy is better than the govt. I dont believe their job description is to oppose everything unless its for spending or borrowing too much. But surely these Liberal Party members could be set to work doing something more useful to earn their keep instead of virtually being on expensive unemployment benefits and the same applies to the State Labor Party members who must think they are on a long holiday season till just before the next election.
Any opinions for debate readers?