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AMANDA STOKER: WOMAN TO WATCH

Queensland LNP Senator Amanda Stoker is a rising star: "We've had... this discussion about whether women are being bullied in the Parliament. I find it paternalistic, pathetic, that women whose job is to be able to represent people in the community... then turn around and say they can't speak up for themselves in a private conversation."

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Andrew Bolt seems to find it strange, speaking from a man's world telling us that women simply aren't as good as men in adversarial arenas. Well, he's right they'd have looked for a compromise before starting wars. He simply can't see there's a difference that the political system is at fault due to the evolution of social and economic patriarchy for not taking into account and hindering 50% of the population to participate in it.

  Bolt's not even representative of a" mans world" in 2018 but a very narrow one that asks "why women can't be more like men" acknowledging he belongs to that cohort of men who culturally doesn't understand them and discourages them when it comes to politics and even the professional fields he moves in. Like men of old he even tells them how they ought to dress also. He's very much a patriarch scared of losing privilege resenting those the challenge those rights. Women don't need to be treated differently by men. Men need to shake the cultural cobwebs off and realise the art of sharing space with others no matter their gender or sexuality liberating themselves from the tyranny of pretending their position which is not one based on merit.

Amanda Stoker Juliar Gillard and Julie Bishop certainly don't need Bolt's approval nor do they beg for it which they see as Paternalistically pathetic. They certainly understand that their political life would be much easier if cultural retards like Bolt in the Liberal Party and Labour Parties simply allowed the needs of real Democracy to change and take effect. 

"The idea there needs to be different treatment for women is just the strangest thing and the fact it's rising makes it all the more bizarre." Andrew Bolt

ABC CHAIRMAN PRAISED WHAT NO CHAIRMAN SHOULD

The ABC's new chairman, Kirstin Ferguson, praised Emma Alberici for a biased attack on company tax cuts that confused revenue with profit: "Great work on the tax story… Thanks for making company tax digestible and understandable for the average punter watching. X” But she backed then chairman Justin Milne despite hearing he wanted Alberici sacked.    

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Bolt fails to grasp that the ABC board wasn't selected on merit but was selected by the LNP government who rode roughshod over the merit process of selection that was in place. Fifield can't now sack that board he chose.  There is a complaints process that's in place and is there in order to maintain the ABC's Independence. One the LNP  boosted by the MSM it seems didn't abide by why? Well, it's been argued and quite correctly that the overactive attack on the ABC by private MSM media groups like News Corp and 2GB and lobbyists like the IPA simply wanted it gone and would assist those in the LNP who'd do that job over those that wouldn't. The choice of Chairman boosted the government's confidence to attack the ABC head-on, cutting their budget and disregarding procedures of editorial complaint. Procedures that even past ABC chairs agreed were broken but set to maintain it's independence.

Bolt's attack of the current Chairperson Kirstin Ferguson for praising Alberici is simply News Corp's continued barrage of negativity against the ABC but using Bolt's personal animosity against women superior to him. We saw it in his confrontation with Miranda Devine when she got a higher billing than she did on the Steve Price Show and in the same way his attitude to Julie Bishop when polls nominated her as a possible PM over Tony Abbott.  According to Bolt neither were qualified for the jobs. Well, it seems the ABC Board thought she was and so did PM Morisson. As for identity politics, it's Bolt weighing in telling us these women lack his selective qualifications, yes but the  very obvious real reason isn't the lack of a selective set of qualifications but that they're women.

WHAT IS WYATT PROTECTING?

If you can't manage your own office, can you manage a department?: "Federal Aged Care Minister Ken Wyatt has threatened to quit Parliament to protect a staff member at the centre of bullying allegations... It is understood Mr Wyatt has had five chiefs-of-staff in the past year due to the ongoing dispute in his office."

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In short, What is Bolt talking about? Abbott couldn't match his office and look what happened to him he's on the back bench.

 Is Bolt trying to blame Ken Wyatt for the poverty of the Aged Care System and not the reduced funding by the government? Why is he singled out? Is it his background too aligned with Indigenous Australia? "He was born at Roelands Mission farm, near Bunbury south of Perth in Western Australia, a former home for young Indigenous children removed from their families." 

Obviously, he doesn't have the privileged background of a migrant monarchist that Abbott has but nor does he have the 38% protest vote Abbott received in Warringah recently.

  However, their seem parallels in their offices with a female staffer in Tony Abbott's, Peta Credlin, having the reputation of a bully. Tony Abbott ignored those complaints and lost his job. Bolt talked of his loyalty back then. Wyatt unlike Abbott has acknowledged the complaints and has volunteered to step down. Where is Bolt's praise him and his loyalty?  How is it Wyatt's loyalty not as grand as Abbott's? Is it because he's not white?

  Anyway, how is it Bolt hasn't even raised the issue of the massive failure Abbott our Indigenous envoy has just had when the local community simply ran him out of town for his lack of respect? Wyatt I guess is protecting his head of staff and protecting individuals fully aware he really there wasn't a system of Welfare that needs protection but one that needs radical change to achieve the desired outcomes. Abbott, on the other hand, wants to enhance a system that will radically change individual's and deliver outcomes at the expense of families and communities.