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Subject: Re: [powderworks] New PM - What now for PG?
From: Andrew Pye
Date: 24/06/2010, 7:58 pm
To: powderworks

Women, and in particular the media, will start trumpeting it's importance based on a principle and not whether or not she is the person best placed to do the job, whereas most men will, well,  probably just get sick of hearing about it!! 

For mine, the people best placed to run the country aren't working in politics and so we just have to deal with whoever gets to the top of the tree (whether it be Branch A or Branch B) out of the people who chose politics as a career path.

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" The Who.


On 24/06/2010, at 7:13 PM, Jeff and Jane Scott wrote:


Does anyone else think it's not really important what gender the PM is?
 
And as for all the whinging about Gillard getting to be PM without leading the party at an election, it's hardly unprecedented.  Keating got there the same way.
 
Gillard, however, may also find herself in the record books as a very short-staying PM.
 
 
jeff...
 
 

From: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au [mailto:powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au] On Behalf Of Chris
Sent: Thursday, 24 June 2010 9:27 AM
Cc: powderworks
Subject: Re: [powderworks] New PM - What now for PG?

Does anyone else think it immensely sad that Australia's first female PM is unelected?

- Chris

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Kate Adams <kate@dnki.net> wrote:
 

Wha? All because the Socceroos got flushed from the World Cup?

Now that's a sports mad country for ya! :-)

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