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Mr Kipling
13 women is great but how many disabled? LGBTQ? Left handed? or Ginger?
Seigi
Diversity... Inclusiveness... Women Empowerment.
PTownsend
Fear of equality seems to be a defining trait of those in Q / Z movements and the global alt right.
Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne
Balance is good
Slayer
Ego Sum Lux Mundi
Yeah, and then when the leftist policies they sang for have ruined the cities and towns as pleasant places to live, they take their money and move to the most rural, traditional parts of the country still untainted and buy a big house there to 'get away from it all', eh, Billy?
Algernon LaCroix
Question is, are they selected based on competence and experience?
If the choice for Minister for Small Business is any guide, no. According to her entry on Wikipedia, the Hon Julie Collins has never owned a small business and there is no mention of her ever working in one either (although she may have when she was a student). Instead, she's been a pubic servant of a political staffer for her entire career. And she's a member of the famously business-friendly Labor Left faction.
Glad I don't have a small business in Australia right now.
Algernon LaCroix
Maybe he meant "get away with it all".
These politicians rarely get held accountable for the damage they wreak. Even then booted out, most of them land a cushy job thanks to their parliamentary connections. Not much different to Japan's amakudari.
Chico3
Exactly. I think betting on a 3-legged horse to win would have better odds than
actual Womenonics in Japan. Congrats to everyone in Australia.
Paustovsky
So you would prefer the ministers to be industry insiders to their respective roles ? With all the protection of vested interests, collusion, price-fixing, favouritism. Sounds like the worst people for the job to me.
Pukey2
Mr Kipling:
Penny Wong is also an Asian lesbian. That kills three birds with one stone. Three boxes checked.
Rodney
150 seats and 13 women. How is that amazing?
TokyoJoe
Diversity hiring, what could possibly go wrong.
Hervé L'Eisa
Let's just see the fruit from this tree. If the fruit is not good, then chop it down.
tooheysnew
I believe she’s left handed too
Algernon LaCroix
(slaps forehead)
Don't you think some practical industry knowledge would help in having some insight into the challenges and opportunities facing a certain field or portfolio? One doesn’t need to be a corrupt insider to understand an industry. You’d rather have someone who knows little to nothing about their portfolio, and in the case of this minister for small business, someone who is ideologically opposed to it, in charge? They might have advisors, but if their advisors have little knowledge as well then the people affected by the minister’s decisions will be up the creek.
By your logic, the attorney-general shouldn’t be a lawyer, right? Even though a lawyer with career experience outside politics would be far more likely than a career politician/party hack to have a broad understanding of the issues affecting the field.
Strangerland
You cared enough to post about it. So obviously you care.
And yet, here you are reading and commenting on it. So yes, it is.
blvtzpk
Not every politician elected to a seat becomes a minister.
…and you wonder why you continue to be unemployed.
Andy
13 women, that's fantastic. Antony also refused to swear on the bible or make mention of the queen during the PM swearing in ceremony, what a guy.
Nagoyajin
Congratulations Oz! Making 13 female ministers is a huge step forward. I mean, how can they do any worse than the male idiots put in charge by the former Prime Idiot, Scott Morrison? Yes, that idiot who can sing in tongues but wasn’t sure what he should do after a young female staffer was raped by one of his party’s officials inside Parliament House. And holidayed secretly in Hawaii as bushfires ravaged Australia.
Algernon LaCroix
As odious as Morrison was, the quality of a cabinet past or present doesn't depend on how many X or Y chromosomes its members have, it's up to their competence and honesty. Both of which which seem to be in short supply among all the major parties.