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watt price tully
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sixpoints
Joined: 27 Sep 2010 Location: Lulie Street
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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Oh a web page. |
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Joel
Joined: 23 Mar 1999 Location: Mornington Peninsula
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"Highly acclaimed". What a laugh.
Adele loves a witch hunt, I'll give her that. She's also pretty good at having an opinion on many things that she doesn't understand completely (I haven't read this particular article and I refuse to do so, simply because she wrote it).
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Culprit
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As long as women are in the right spot doing the ironing. |
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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Quote: | His appointment of himself as the minister for women was always seen as a cynical PR stunt, designed to compensate for the many gaffes he has made about women over the years, including the gobsmacking comment in 2010 that "housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it's going to go up in price, and their own power bill when they switch the iron on are going to go up." |
I've never quite understood this 'gaffe'is it because Australia has no housewives, or because housewives don't do ironing any more? Or is it just that any reference to women and ironing is a no-no? _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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David
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Am I reading this correctly?
Quote: | Advocates for gay and lesbian service men and women have welcomed the appointment of Mr Andrews, one of the government's most socially conservative members, halfway through the implementation of a cultural change policy aimed at making the military more inclusive. |
_________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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Wokko
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David wrote: | Quote: | His appointment of himself as the minister for women was always seen as a cynical PR stunt, designed to compensate for the many gaffes he has made about women over the years, including the gobsmacking comment in 2010 that "housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it's going to go up in price, and their own power bill when they switch the iron on are going to go up." |
I've never quite understood this 'gaffe'is it because Australia has no housewives, or because housewives don't do ironing any more? Or is it just that any reference to women and ironing is a no-no? |
Academic feminists and their enablers hate the fact that there are women who have chosen to stay home and look after children and maintain a household. Any reference to this is 'sexist' and must be met with ridicule or vitriol. I was confused about this kind of thing as well until I realised that the agenda isn't to give women and families choice, it's to push a culture where women no longer look after children or the home and those careers are outsourced to the State or corporations.
Before I get lambasted again as some kind of woman hating conservative by WPT , I am the 'housewife' who looks after my daughter because her mother is not able to work due to significant health issues and I would rather have my child raised by a parent than by childcare corporations. I have the greatest respect for housewives and stay at home mothers and fathers and I despise seeing the job treated as something to look down upon by scumbag 'intellectuals' and feminists. People have fought to give women 'choice', but have enslaved them as wage earning drones, economic units whose children are raised by childcare workers. That's the true tragedy, not Tony Abbott harking back to an era where children were raised by their parents and came home to cooked meals and cleaned and ironed clothes. |
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think positive
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Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere
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Wokko wrote: | David wrote: | Quote: | His appointment of himself as the minister for women was always seen as a cynical PR stunt, designed to compensate for the many gaffes he has made about women over the years, including the gobsmacking comment in 2010 that "housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it's going to go up in price, and their own power bill when they switch the iron on are going to go up." |
I've never quite understood this 'gaffe'is it because Australia has no housewives, or because housewives don't do ironing any more? Or is it just that any reference to women and ironing is a no-no? |
Academic feminists and their enablers hate the fact that there are women who have chosen to stay home and look after children and maintain a household. Any reference to this is 'sexist' and must be met with ridicule or vitriol. I was confused about this kind of thing as well until I realised that the agenda isn't to give women and families choice, it's to push a culture where women no longer look after children or the home and those careers are outsourced to the State or corporations.
Before I get lambasted again as some kind of woman hating conservative by WPT , I am the 'housewife' who looks after my daughter because her mother is not able to work due to significant health issues and I would rather have my child raised by a parent than by childcare corporations. I have the greatest respect for housewives and stay at home mothers and fathers and I despise seeing the job treated as something to look down upon by scumbag 'intellectuals' and feminists. People have fought to give women 'choice', but have enslaved them as wage earning drones, economic units whose children are raised by childcare workers. That's the true tragedy, not Tony Abbott harking back to an era where children were raised by their parents and came home to cooked meals and cleaned and ironed clothes. |
Yep, I hate all the child dumps! Fancy a kid having to get to child care at 6am. Then don't get home til 6pm. That's not living. For anyone _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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think positive
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David wrote: | Quote: | His appointment of himself as the minister for women was always seen as a cynical PR stunt, designed to compensate for the many gaffes he has made about women over the years, including the gobsmacking comment in 2010 that "housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it's going to go up in price, and their own power bill when they switch the iron on are going to go up." |
I've never quite understood this 'gaffe'is it because Australia has no housewives, or because housewives don't do ironing any more? Or is it just that any reference to women and ironing is a no-no? |
I iron. The world is going to hell. All those kids and husbands walking around in creased $$%^%%$ clothes, ugh! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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Culprit
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The Born to rule party are clearly in a state of Panic. I can't see Big Ears being PM this time next year. |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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Tannin
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I don't have a problem with that. Quite often, we find that ministers with particular policy interests who get that portfolio they dream of wind up making a mess of it. Consider Bob Carr, a very competent and experienced man with a good track record. He had always wanted to be foreign affairs minister, made a lifetime study of it. Result: he was pretty crap and made a number of major gaffes.
On the other hand, there have been conspicuous always-wanted-this-job success stories too. Kim Beasley was an outstanding defence minister - and indeed was only conscripted reluctantly into a party leadership role 'coz he liked having defence. Barry Jones was an excellent Science Minister.
Finally, consider Graham Richardson, who had never shown the faintest interest in the environment and was suddenly handed the environment portfolio by Bob Hawke. Disaster, yes? No! Richardson turned out to be perhaps the best Environment Minister I can remember.
The explanation, I surmise, is that a minister with no background or interest in a portfolio can succeed - and sometimes do very well indeed - if he is a good, experienced administrator, well advised by his senior department officials, able to take on the unexpected role with an open mind and bring a lot of energy to it, and in particular, if he has the capacity to find out his department's needs and then push the required policies through in cabinet.
(None of this is to say that Andrews will make a good defence Minister, or won't. Given his appalling record for supporting the extreme religious right at every opportunity, however, we can at least be grateful he hasn't been put somewhere he could do serious damage, such as health, education, or social services.)" _________________ �Let's eat Grandma.� Commas save lives! |
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watt price tully
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"Highly acclaimed". What a laugh.
Adele loves a witch hunt, I'll give her that. She's also pretty good at having an opinion on many things that she doesn't understand completely (I haven't read this particular article and I refuse to do so, simply because she wrote it). |
Don't get the fact of Walkley awards get in the way of not reading her Joel.
A brave journalist Joel - She's got balls mate. _________________ “I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman |
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