The McTernan-led ALP spin machine continues to attack Tony Abbott’s so-called
problem with women
even though this is patently false. Yet when Margie Abbott comes to the defence of her husband, the spin-machine and its ABC acolytes suggest this is wrong and inappropriate.
How strange. There are numerous examples in history – Australian, American, British etc – where a spouse has offered strong support for their (usually) husband. It was certainly ok with the ALP when Hazel Hawke offered strong support for her husband, or Annita to hers.
But now we have an unmarried Prime Minister, the ALP would like us to think it inappropriate for Margie Abbott to appear in the campaign.
Hillary, though, probably has the best line for Margie:
You know, I’m not sitting here like some little woman standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette. I’m sitting here because I love him, and I respect him, and I honor what he’s been through and what we’ve been through together. And you know, if that’s not enough for people, then heck, don’t vote for him.
the whinging left, can’t please them whatever you do – and why would you want to?
whingers – all of them
val majkus
6 Oct 12 at 5:20 pm
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/mrs-abbott-enters-the-fray/story-fn59niix-1226489747271
What’s Swannie smoking?
val majkus
6 Oct 12 at 5:27 pm
Was he jerking his puny body around when he was saying this? The little dickhead he is.
I bet he was because he knows that when he was saying that people were thinking he was talking about himself.
JC
6 Oct 12 at 5:35 pm
What is the relevance of that comment?
SteveC
6 Oct 12 at 5:40 pm
The fact has been bonking married men, SteveC. That contrasts with you ummm having a relationship with Kimberly, your plastic sex doll that you took to WA in a suit case on hols.
JC
6 Oct 12 at 5:44 pm
It was okay for Tim to support Julia…oh, that’s right, it’s different when they do it.
Gab
6 Oct 12 at 5:45 pm
“Yet when Margie Abbott comes to the defence of her husband, the spin-machine and its ABC acolytes suggest this is wrong and inappropriate.”
They have?
Jarrah
6 Oct 12 at 5:46 pm
Clinton: Stand by your man, after he fucks the intern
Gillard: Fuck other women’s husbands, they are whores anyway
Mc Ternan: Abbot (who employs women, whose daughters still talk to him, whose wife has a mind of her own and publicly defends him) hates women and he uses his wife as a pawn, how uncouth
Ergo: Gillard hates women who are not rutting socialists or not married to one.
.
6 Oct 12 at 5:50 pm
Jarrah have you been earplugs for the last week or so?
Bolt has a few examples in case you missed them
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/margie_is_brave_but_the_barbarians_are_many/
val majkus
6 Oct 12 at 5:52 pm
oh that should be ‘wearing earplugs’
val majkus
6 Oct 12 at 5:53 pm
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 05/10/2012
Reporter: Tom Iggulden
A coordinated media blitz from Tony Abbott and his wife today saw the Opposition leader attempting to improve his image with female voters.
Government attacks branding Mr Abbott as a misogynist were revived this week, following conservative radio host Alan Jones’s comments about the Prime Minister’s late father.
The public furore over the remarks has led to the resignation of a senior Woolworths’ executive after it was revealed that he brought a jacket made of chaff bags to the Liberal party event, referencing Mr Jones’s earlier jibes about dumping the Prime Minister at sea in a chaff bag.
….
Whaddya think now Slippery-Jarrah?
JamesK
6 Oct 12 at 6:01 pm
McClelland has given Gillard’s advisors a serve:
He couldn’t mean anyone in particular could he? Its getting rough when even your own side things you’re playing dirty. Classy lady that PM of ours.
Bruce
6 Oct 12 at 6:11 pm
JamesK – those quotes from the ABC aren’t critical of Abbott’s wife making public statements supporting her husband. They’re just reporting that she is, and why she is.
The fact that Abbott has brought her out is indicative that he’s concerned at the very least about the perceptions. Its a bit odd given an election is fairly far away. Perhaps he’s worried about Turnbull?
I’ve no problem with Abbott’s wife publicly supporting him. As you say its not that unusual for Australian politics, though some PM’s wives (and especially opposition leader ones) have been pretty quiet except around election time. There is a significant difference to the US though where it appears the spouse is considered much more important and relevant.
Chris
6 Oct 12 at 6:19 pm
It’s a huge mistake by Tony Abbott. Makes him look totally ineffectual in that he needs his wife to counter quite accurate perceptions. Anyone can get his mother or wife to come out in support. It’s what the rest of womanhood thinks that count, and that’s not likely to be improved by this desperate gambit.
After Obama romps home on Nov 6, we’ll see Abbott on the slide in the polls and finally in the election next year.
hammygar
6 Oct 12 at 6:26 pm
If that’s what you h-o-n-e-s-t-l-y believe Chris, then you must have a vacuous space between your ears where grey matter would normally reside.
JamesK
6 Oct 12 at 6:28 pm
But it’s perfectly fine when TIM comes out in support of Julia. To say no is just being sexist. Fancy that, the PM has to get her hairdresser boyfriend to defend her ’cause she’s the only one being bullied. Boo hoo.
Gab
6 Oct 12 at 6:28 pm
Hilary supported Clinton because he couldn’t stop rooting other women.
ar
6 Oct 12 at 6:30 pm
JamesK – would you rather the media ignore and not report what Abbott’s wife is saying? Then you’d be claiming there is a conspiracy by the mass media to ignore Abbott!
Chris
6 Oct 12 at 6:30 pm
LOL!
‘Chris’, leave the strawmen alone you dishonest leftist git
JamesK
6 Oct 12 at 6:31 pm
“Bolt has a few examples in case you missed them”
His first example is Laurie Oakes, but it’s behind a paywall, so all I can see is that he points out it’s not unusual for wives to defend their husbands – ie, exactly the point Samuel J makes with this post.
His second example is Liberty Singer, who actually said:
So in fact that’s the complete opposite of saying it’s “wrong and inappropriate”.
His third example is Kate Calacouras, who writes:
So again, the opposite of wrong and inappropriate. Her next line is, however, a criticism:
Which is a very specific criticism about using personal tragedy as character evidence. That’s a pretty nasty assertion to make, and to top it all off Calacouras was wrong about why the topic was brought up, so her criticism doesn’t even match the facts. Still, she’s not saying that coming to her husband’s defence was wrong at all.
“Whaddya think now Slippery-Jarrah?”
That apparently you can get through medical school (let’s be generous and assume you’re not lying about being a doctor) without knowing how to read. The topic is the media treatment of Mrs Abbott’s defence of her husband. All the quotes you just gave are about Mr Abbott.
In short, Samuel’s evidence-free statement is yet to be shown to reflect any kind of reality. I’m happy to be corrected, of course.
Jarrah
6 Oct 12 at 6:32 pm
Well well well. Look what I found.
C.L.
6 Oct 12 at 6:39 pm
LOL
Jarrah you are such a dishonest dense leftist turd.
The Lateline report ‘suggests’ suggestively that Margey’s appearance is in response to the supposed damage to the female vote that Tony’s supposed self-promoted hard man image and the Alan Jones comments are doing to his prospects.
It suggests that it was “coordinated” and actually Tony Abbott’s idea even though he “says” it was Margey’s idea.
It also suggests he has “used” his family before.
I have nothing but contempt for you and your latest puerile rope-a-dope play :
What a low-life piece of leftist filth you are you.
JamesK
6 Oct 12 at 6:44 pm
“But it hasn’t stopped her working full-time this year as an organiser for the Community and Public Sector Union – where she is known by her maiden name, Kim Williamson – and helping with the ACTU campaign during the federal election, rather than being by Mr Swan’s side.”
Oh my.
DavidJ
6 Oct 12 at 6:45 pm
C’mon,give me a break..we had the very less than impressive creature called Timy ,who apparently she keeps in shed out the back propped up in front of the camera’s,we have had Rudds gorgon out to back him up in his last challenge.And we have Rudd as opposition leader inviting the camera’s into his home to tell how God fearing he is.As my old Dad said when they start that shit get your hand over your wallet.But that’s all fine…
max49
6 Oct 12 at 6:46 pm
“‘suggests’ suggestively that Margey’s appearance is in response to the supposed damage to the female vote that Tony’s supposed self-promoted hard man image”
You dishonest dense fascist turd. Did it ‘suggest’ suggestively that it was wrong or inappropriate? What a low-life piece of fascist filth you are.
Jarrah
6 Oct 12 at 6:47 pm
CL gotta love this quote from that link you gave:
val majkus
6 Oct 12 at 6:48 pm
Swann has a wife!..must live in separate houses.
max49
6 Oct 12 at 6:49 pm
LOL
Only a dishonest deceitful leftist fucktard like you would suggest it didn’t
JamesK
6 Oct 12 at 6:49 pm
Swan’s wife is ashamed to use his name.
C.L.
6 Oct 12 at 6:54 pm
Swan’s partner (for wife is a term of subservience in leftyworld), is
sheis there any relation to Michael Williamson?Gab
6 Oct 12 at 6:55 pm
Jarrah and James, I would’ve said cool it except you’re in good company:
– Mark Latham, AFR yesterday.
As I said, its getting rough when your own guy calls your leader unflushable.
Bruce
6 Oct 12 at 6:57 pm
Michael Kroger said it was a mistake for the ALP to bring in McTernan because the nasty class war and personal abuse type tactics that appear to worry in the UK don’t work in Australia.
I hope that he is right. I hope that the electorate can see through this crap and realise that the ALP, as it stands at the moment, has nothing positive to contribute to Australia.
I also hope that the Liberal Party understands that this approach to politics is the approach of the desperate and incompetent. A decent Party, providing decent government, does not need to resort to such disgusting tactics.
Johno
6 Oct 12 at 7:19 pm
In other news the ace strikers of Team Abbott put no less than five hot strikes past the flailing defense of the Handbag Hit Squad, whose hapless defenders Latham and McClelland added more woe with own goals.
The managers of team Handbag Hit Squad came under criticism for the imported Scottish coach, who was traded last year for an offensive specialist to the cellar dwelling club Tax the Rich. Club captain and millionaire Ed Milliband denied the trade would lead to riots in the stands, but said the new man would make an excellent contribution in time.
Bruce
6 Oct 12 at 7:41 pm
Hammy AKA LENIN
” quite accurate perceptions.” Oh and your rational for this perspicacious piffle!
blind freddy
6 Oct 12 at 7:42 pm
Jarrah, I watched that ABC editorial and when you add the visual and audial ‘nuance’ to the transcript that Jamesk quoted, it was quite clearly trying to make it seem the way James has interpreted it.
As for Liberty Sanger, who was talking in Melbourne, she was trying to justify that Abbott’s daughter in London wasn’t a real modern woman like that lass in Libya. Seriously.
I can’t understand why you have adopted your position. You are usually better than that.
entropy
6 Oct 12 at 7:45 pm
I don’t wish to appear cruel entropy but actually when push comes to shove usually he’s not any better than that.
JamesK
6 Oct 12 at 8:03 pm
You can only hope that the 3 kids got their intellect from DC’s wife. 2 are muso’s, so I don’t think so.
Token
6 Oct 12 at 8:11 pm
Good to see some people with extremely high opinions of themselves going ape here.. Fun
Lazlo
6 Oct 12 at 8:39 pm
CL’s link to Swan’s wife’s interview contains this classic:
“The media did always portray Wayne as a bit of a calculating numbers-cruncher and whatever, but that’s really not the majority of Wayne.”
I almost dropped to the floor laughing my guts out when I read this. There is not anyone – not on the left or the right of politics in this country – who could possibly, ever, have considered poor Wayne a “numbers-cruncher”. For God Sakes, the bloke is barely sentient, let alone being able to undertake a higher level task such as considering numbers. FFS, the only reason the ALP keeps the gimlet eyed fool in the position is because he is so congenitally stupid as to not pose a threat to any other of them.
I despair.
I can only look forward to the morning after the next election to look at the faces of the bewildered and lost of the ALP, wandering around with dazed looks on their dimwit faces wondering what on earth they did to deserve the fate that soon awaits them.
James P
6 Oct 12 at 8:49 pm
Of course it is. It’s demeaning to women. The sooner the gendification of words in the English language are banned by legislation the better. The only correct word is “partner”. Our gay friends have it right.
hammygar
6 Oct 12 at 8:51 pm
You have to giggle at hammyracist.
So far, he’s proven that he is:
- troll
- a communist
- in unnatural love with the worst mass-murderers in human history
- a racist
- a white supremacist
- amazingly ignorant even for a window-licking communist
and now he adds elitist, homophobe and misogynist to the list of his sterling characteristics.
Mk50 of Brisbane
6 Oct 12 at 8:59 pm
I was hugely disappointed by d’hamsters earlier meaningless (but typically nasty) ad hom.
However this hugely societally destructive logical extremist extent (if deceptively imminent) of current leftist ‘ideology’ is sooo much better.
Well done hamster!
JamesK
6 Oct 12 at 9:02 pm
has those people ever heard of Margaret Whitlam? she was a force in herself.
Upon Gough Whitlam’s election as Prime Minister, Margaret Whitlam quickly became known as an outspoken advocate for issues including women’s rights, particularly abortion law reform and conservation.
She faced widespread public criticism about her proactive role but she refused to limit herself to traditional preconceptions.
She was a regular guest on radio and television, and wrote a column for the magazine Woman’s Day on the life of a prime minister’s wife.
In 2006, she criticised Janette Howard for what she considered a lack of commitment to community activities. She withdrew the comments (but stopped short of apologising) after attracting condemnation from both sides of politics
see http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-17/margaret-whitlam-obit/3894502
Jim Rose
6 Oct 12 at 9:05 pm
One thing this Labour government have really brought home to me is that the ABC has to go! Nothing less than a complete shut down and sale of assests.
This is the 21st cent., how can anyone justify a government funded broadcaster.
Luke
6 Oct 12 at 9:23 pm
Let us know when you’ve invented an acceptable degenderfied third person personal pronoun Hammy. I wish not to have Mordy on my back for inappropriately calling someone he or she.
Bruce
6 Oct 12 at 9:27 pm
Hammy is right, penis should be “violating pudenda” and vagina should be “victim pudenda”.
Good call, Hamster.
.
6 Oct 12 at 9:36 pm
The people above saying unpleasant things about Mrs Abbott, loving wife and mother, and her three daughters, are un-Australian. Mr McLelland has certainly got that right.
candy
6 Oct 12 at 9:39 pm
No one thinks she’s done wrong here.
JC
6 Oct 12 at 9:51 pm
Anyone who has dedicated so much life in a desperate attempt to socialise and support the mentally disadvantaged should be commended, not condemned.
Token
6 Oct 12 at 9:53 pm
hammyracist is quite the little nazi, isn’t he?
Mk50 of Brisbane
6 Oct 12 at 9:55 pm
Your husband phoned. He said to pick up extra KY and a hamster.
Infidel Tiger
6 Oct 12 at 10:02 pm
I hope the other one has a hungry heart.
.
6 Oct 12 at 10:05 pm
Easy peasy. The logical contraction of She/He/It is “shit“. You’re welcome to call Hammy by this.
Cold-Hands
6 Oct 12 at 10:08 pm
There is nothing wrong with Margie supporting Tony – who said there was? Where and when did “the ABC or the spin merchants criticise it???”
I didnt notice any criticisms. This isnt a right left argument is it? Peoples wives in politics support them all the time. Margie wasnt doing anything unusual. I think its a stretch to say “she was criticised” by people unless somone can give me some factual criticisms ie after Margie went on record?
In other words not much of a point to this post.
Alice
6 Oct 12 at 10:10 pm
Alice you seem like a sweet lady, but if you wouldn’t mind sticking to posting your thoughts on tomorrow’s menu at the psych ward, that would be much appreciated by all.
Infidel Tiger
6 Oct 12 at 10:23 pm
You probably don’t notice the Thorazine and Propafol injections you get every night.
.
6 Oct 12 at 10:34 pm
Their ABC should be reduced to one Tv station and a reasonable rural radio coverage which actually serves a purpose.Resent having to pay for second rate lefty propagandists
max49
6 Oct 12 at 10:46 pm
A lot of the quotes seemd innocent, but this one certainly had tone:
“He says it was her idea”
Well, she said it was her idea. There is absolutely no reason to mention that “he said” unless you are using it for the double meaning of “said” or “say” in English. It can mean speak or it can mean lied. Also, it implies she is incapable of acting in her own volition, so it is quite deliberately intended to imply she’s his willing chattel, trotting out to do his will. Compare the two sentences of my own invention:
“She stepped forward to publicly defend her husband”
“She defended her husband in a speech he says was her idea”
if you wanted positive emotional read you’d say
“A passionate Margie broke her customary silence on matters political today, speaking out against allegations that Tony has a problem with women”
Cliched, yes. But it works. Connotation versus denotation, people, didn’t you learn about it in high school?
wreckage
7 Oct 12 at 1:37 am
Actually, “Gave a speech” can imply a prepared statement. So the connotation is that she read out a speech that Tony says was her idea. Totally. Say no more.
wreckage
7 Oct 12 at 1:40 am
Alice wouldn’t, know there was a bus up her arse until people started to get off.
Splatacrobat
7 Oct 12 at 3:13 am
For such a bunch of fucktard misogynist wingnuts on here I cannot believe the support good old Margie is getting.
Lord Rexington
7 Oct 12 at 3:34 am
Graeme?
Tom
7 Oct 12 at 5:48 am
Congratulations to the troll herd, together with the rest of the leftosphere.
Your continuing efforts have stripped the words racist and misogynist of their power to cause any shame or reflection on anyone’s bad behaviour.
These terms, thrown around apropos of nothing, are no longer any use as weapons in the verbal cut and thrust that political tragics have to participate in every day for fear that the other side will put one over.
Blogstrop
7 Oct 12 at 6:46 am
Lobotomised leichhardt lezzo stormfr@nt?
Rabz
7 Oct 12 at 7:18 am
Of course you didn’t Alice.
You moron.
JamesK
7 Oct 12 at 7:52 am
Threy all seem innocent but they are all loaded.
How about this one wreckage?:
It’s not the first time the Opposition leader’s put his family into the media spotlight
Tom Iggulden’s is a smug face that I’d love to smash in.
JamesK
7 Oct 12 at 7:57 am
Not only is the emperor naked, he isn’t even wearing his glasses. Now we all have to pretend there’s no such thing as male and female. Mustn’t let reality get in the way of our dogma.
Ellen of Tasmania
7 Oct 12 at 7:57 am
What sort of visa does McTernan have? Is it specific about just what work or not he can do? Is it confined to South Australia? Might not he actually be an illegal alien?
Michael
7 Oct 12 at 8:32 am
This bleating about sexist language is rubbish.
It has been applied to Tony Abbott for”calling the PM “she”,but as Julie Bishop asked on Bolt Report , what should he say when he asks the PM to explain herself?–not that she ever does anything else but uses foul language back at him regardless,such as call him Jack the Ripper and with impunity it seems…
Hmm,try it
“Would the Prime Minister tell the house what ???(she) intends to do about….”
Pretty bleeding stilted to talk with PM scattered about for every noun isn’t it?
“Would the Prime Minister tell the House what the Prime Minister meant when the Prime Minister allegedly said that the Prime Minister would not ….etc”
Personally I’d comment back if ever asked, that what’s good enough for Macquarie dictionary is good enough surely for Australia, the female personal pronoun is “she” and Julia Gillard is female–isn’t she?
Jazza
7 Oct 12 at 8:44 am
Luke said;
Aww, good one mate, NOW look at done .
BULLY !!
jumpnmcar
7 Oct 12 at 8:49 am
at.. what you.. done.
jumpnmcar
7 Oct 12 at 8:49 am
It’s taken them five years, Jazza, to suddenly notice Abbott says “she”. Or it’s taken them five years to come up with that absurdity.
Gab
7 Oct 12 at 8:55 am
Abbott could have put an end to all this “trouble with women nonsense” if he’d just given the fat cow a root when she was hot for his body a few years back.How could anyone forget those endless photos,even in Fairfax fish wrappers,of Gillard forever trying and occasionally succeeding in pawing him.But then who can blame her? Just have a look at her previous “conquests”,Bruce,Craig,Timmee…ye Gods why wouldn’t she want a real man?
Lew
7 Oct 12 at 9:12 am
Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Oh Hammy, my Hairy Irish Ape could take you to the pub and fully correct you on that one. You just try getting Lizzie to be subservient, he would rue at you. Then he’d walk out in disgust with your existence, saying, I don’t drink with edjits. Should you respond with anything unpleasant about me, I can guarantee you would never be sayin’ such a t’ing again. It’s like that, Hammy, in the real world where real married people live.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
7 Oct 12 at 9:23 am
“As for Liberty Sanger, who was talking in Melbourne, she was trying to justify that Abbott’s daughter in London wasn’t a real modern woman like that lass in Libya. Seriously.”
Sure, but that has nothing to do with Margie Abbott, does it? Samuel J’s contention about how unnamed people are being hypocritically censorious about her defence of her husband has so far found zero backing.
“I can’t understand why you have adopted your position. You are usually better than that.”
I asked a question. People have replied in the affirmative, but have yet to show any reason why they think that. Apart from taking tribalist sides, of course.
Jarrah
7 Oct 12 at 9:36 am
“I asked a question”
No.
You didn’t.
At least not a genuine one.
In fact, it was rope-a-dope “tribalist” smartarsery.
JamesK
7 Oct 12 at 9:42 am
abbott has a women problem because women vote to left more often than men.
John Lott pointed out that for decades, polls have shown that women as a group vote differently than men. Without the women’s vote, Republicans would have swept every presidential race but one between 1968 and 2004.
smaller government and lower taxes is a higher priority for men than for women. Women were much more opposed to the 1996 federal welfare reforms. Women support Medicare, Social Security and educational expenditures more than men.
single women who believe they may marry in the future, as well as married women who most fear divorce, look to the government as a form of social insurance against this risk of divorce.
Once women marry, they bear a greater share of taxes through their husbands’ relatively higher income so their support for high taxes declines.
The political views of women on average also vary more than those of men over the course of their lives:
• Young single women start out much more liberal than men – they are about 50 percent more likely to vote Democratic, but for married women this gap is only one-third as large. married women with children become more conservative still.
• For women with children who are divorced, they are suddenly 75 percent more likely to vote for Democrats than single men. As divorce rates have increased, due in large part to changing divorce laws, voters have become more liberal.
see http://johnrlott.tripod.com/op-eds/WashTimesWomensSuff112707.html
Jim Rose
7 Oct 12 at 9:42 am
Gillard has a men problem because men vote to right more often than women.
John Lott pointed out that for decades, polls have shown that men as a group vote differently than women. Without the men’s vote, Democrats would have swept most, if not all presidential races between 1968 and 2008
JamesK
7 Oct 12 at 9:46 am
So what you’re saying is “anyone who isn’t a liberal (statist) at the age of 20 is heartless, anyone who isn’t a conservative (libertarian) at the age of 30 is brainless”?
.
7 Oct 12 at 9:49 am
“No. You didn’t. At least not a genuine one.”
JamesK proves he can’t read again.
“In fact, it was rope-a-dope “tribalist” smartarsery.”
LOL. You just called yourself a dope.
Samuel made an evidence-free assertion. I questioned it, genuinely – I haven’t been following the story. It would have been interesting if he had been telling the truth, and I wanted to know more.
Sadly, everyone who claimed to provide evidence failed. Naturally no-one will admit error or bias, least of all Samuel, the most cowardly of Catallaxy’s bloggers.
Jarrah
7 Oct 12 at 9:50 am
No.
I didn’t.
Your disingenuousness as well as your poor intellect mark you, Jarrah
JamesK
7 Oct 12 at 9:53 am
I caught anti-Liberty Sanga’s little interview when she spoke of Margie and it certainly was a pointed attack through dismissing Margie’s article as from the view of an old-fashioned women with old-fashioned ideas who had no relevance talking to ‘modern-day women’. However it doesn’t translate like that in the transcript of the interview.
Gab
7 Oct 12 at 10:01 am
Can’t agree Jarrah. I can see where you are coming from, in that no completely blatant adverse commentary has been made by the MSM (MSM know they can’t get away with that even though elsewhere, in Polly’s Handbag Land, it is open slather), but as is pointed out in many instances above, there is considerable contextual and implicit (occasionally explict in sentence construction and word choice) denigration of Abbott and the purposes of his wife’s comments.
I think she did very much the right thing in coming forward and I hope she does more of it. It is time the barking left ladies were hoist on their own petty petard.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
7 Oct 12 at 10:13 am
Actually I provided a textbook example of emotional loading. I know you’re busy having a spit-fight with JamesK, but there are, in fact, adults in the room.
wreckage
7 Oct 12 at 10:15 am
gender differences in voting are based on gender differences in the demand for social insurance.
The spread of women’s suffrage ushered in sharp increases in government spending and changes in voting patterns in congress and state legislatures.
The presence of a suffragette movement did not matter much to the spread of suffrage across American states and territories from 1869 onwards.
In NZ, it was the conservative parties who pushed for women’s suffrage in 1891.
The conservative parties though women would vote against the vices of a frontier colony such as drink and gambling, and would be more cautious and encourage policies which protected and nurtured families. the right to vote would also encourage more women to migrate to the new world.
Jim Rose
7 Oct 12 at 10:17 am
That to me is a reason why we should have a consumption tax.
The rate becomes explicit to those who demand the most services from Government.
.
7 Oct 12 at 10:20 am
Some odd female journalist in the punch Kate Caracoulas said Margie Abbott had talked about her miscarriage “with the intention of improving Tony’s likeability or scoring”
I would call that blatantly adverse commentary.
candy
7 Oct 12 at 10:20 am
I think Tony Abbott will do most of his campaigning with his wife and at least one daughter beside him. As he should–it will be a lot of fun watching the leftist media dills implode,as their empty words fall on deaf ears, and Labor can’t match the beauty parade!!
Jazza
7 Oct 12 at 11:15 am
“In his speech, the president lit into Romney on women’s health issues, an area where the Obama campaign believes it has gained a significant advantage. Polls show the president with a healthy lead among women voters nationally, an edge that has helped boost him to a lead in swing states, including Virginia, where Obama leads Romney by 19 points among women.
So all those feminist, independent women still want protection and help after all.
Ellen of Tasmania
7 Oct 12 at 11:50 am
Don’t forget his sister, who can explode a lefty head at 500 paces with just a meaningful look.
Tony was out there handing how to vote cards for Christine. He also works in indigenous communities each year getting his hands and bum dirty. I have never seen Julia do something like that.
Bruce
7 Oct 12 at 12:18 pm
I think that is the nub of the issue. Gillard seems to be inherently selfish. Everything she’s done and decisions she’s made seem to point to just one thing: Advancing Julia Gillard. It was even remarked on by her parents, “What Julia wants, Julia gets”. Which I suspect includes stealing the husbands of other women, creating a ‘dodgy-as’ Incorporation, bullying and threatening various media outlets, and politically knifing a sitting Prime Minister.
In short, Gillard has no real accomplishments or unselfish deeds to be lauded – so the Left can only do one thing, tear Abbott down by inventing stuff or blowing out of all proportion minor things.
A Lurker
7 Oct 12 at 1:16 pm
Has Julia Gillard ever been shown to have done any voluntary work at all? My guess is no, but I’m happy to be proven wrong.
St Hubbins
7 Oct 12 at 6:30 pm
Yes. The work for Bruce Wilson was pro bono.
C.L.
7 Oct 12 at 11:48 pm
priceless, CL!!
Harrys on the Boat
8 Oct 12 at 12:01 am
Gold!
Infidel tiger
8 Oct 12 at 12:02 am