the rancid odour of male privilege

Since Julia Gillard became Prime Minister the male dominated Opposition, led by the simian postured provocateur, Tony Abbott, has been engaged in a ruthless and relentless personal attack on her credibility, disparaging every effort she's made and deigning to support just about all her policies with barely a sniff of what is the raison d'etre of an opposition in the Westminster system, a credible alternative. Never before has a parliamentary process been so thoroughly trashed with such venom by a bevy of blatently sexist male stalkers in such desperate straits over the preservation of prerogative.

The governance of the nation has been swept into a whirlpool of the fear and loathing of women in power. Prosperity, security and the nation's wellbeing have been dealt a vicious blow by a parliament incapable of conducting business in a decent, civil and non-discriminatory manner.

It's come time for reform to remove once and for all the rancid odour of male privilege. What's urgently needed to ensure a productive and sustainable future is a parliament governing by agreement between a women's legislature, with members elected by women, and a men's legislature, with members elected by men, led by a Cabinet of an equal number of women and men appointed by the legislatures, presided over by a Council of Governors-General comprising an equal number of senior women and men appointed by the Cabinet, accompanied by Courts of women's and men's jurisdiction.

There is no other remedy for the loathsome, seethingly personal and insufferably unjust infighting into which Australia's pre-eminent governing body has descended, now a sewer of sexism sullying the daily lives of all citizens.

6 March, 2012