Jun 1, 2015
Super unfair that I can choose not to get married, but most of the people I know aren’t even afforded that basic choice.
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Super unfair that I can choose not to get married, but most of the people I know aren’t even afforded that basic choice.
Australia's new PM. Dandy.
As much as we vote in a party and not a person. This guy is our PM.
(a compilation of quotes prior to Oct 2012 - credit: an anon friend)
--- ABBOTT ON WOMEN: --- "What the 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 bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up." DAILY TELEGRAPH 9 FEBRUARY 2010 ABBOTT: For myself, I don’t support “women’s” causes. I support conservative causes BLOG –5 SEPTEMBER 2008 I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons. HONI SOIT – 1979 But what if men are by philosophy or temperament more adapted to exercise authority or to issue command? GOOD WEEKEND – AUGUST – 1998 MITCHELL: Do you think young women should keep themselves for marriage? ABBOTT: Well, I think all of us should act in a way that value ourselves. “... If someone asked my advice, I would say that don't do anything that you would live to regret if you can possibly help it and try to act in ways which a self-respecting person would act” 3AW – 26 JANUARY 2010 LIBERAL leader Tony Abbott told Colac carers that women had a natural instinct to look after their family, but “for us blokes, it’s a learned skill”. COLAC HERALD – 26 MARCH 2012 --- ABBOTT PERSONAL ATTACKS: --- ABBOTT: Before this government dies of shame, it should find a leader who isn’t fatally compromised by the need to defend the indefensible. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 10 MAY 2012 ABBOTT: Gillard won't lie down and die, and where there's life, there's fight. SMH, 29 MAY 2012 ABBOTT: Prime Minister and this Leader of the House have got targets on their foreheads. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 22 MARCH 2012 ABBOTT: “...haunt this government and this Prime Minister to her political grave.” HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 24 NOVEMBER 2011
(p.s. in interesting news my seat was retained by labor, as was my partner's seat of Moreton (actually having a positive swing in Labor's favour of 1.8%))