I don't want to discuss the personalities or policies of Julia, Kevin or Tony. I don't want to discuss Labour or Liberal, mining taxes or the next election.
I just want to comment that I am glad that 50 years after the world's first woman elected or appointed (ie not hereditary) head of state Australia has become the 44th country to have a woman head of state. IMO it's self evident that 50% of our elected representatives should be women and the HoS should be a woman 50% of the time - not, I hasten to add, because of a quota system but because I believe talent, motivation and commitment are equally distributed between the sexes (and, while were at it, between people of different sexual preference). While I always believed it would happen it was becoming noticable that Australia hadn't achieved what had been achieved by countries from Chile to Croatia, Pakistan to Panama (not to mention the Kiwis and Poms). I think we matured just a little bit today.
Just to emphasise my first point. This is not about Julia, nor party politics. It is about equality. Please limit any replies to that subject.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...24/2935697.htm