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    <title>topic Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....?? in Community Spirit</title>
    <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1712051#M463766</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="3"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Electoral quotas for women: an international overview&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Electoral quotas have gained international support and have proven to be effective in ‘fast-tracking’ women’s political representation to produce equality of results, not just equality of opportunity.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;In 2012 the Australian Government committed $320 million to support a 10-year initiative to ‘empower women and to promote gender equality in the Pacific’ region, which has the world’s lowest proportion of women parliamentarians.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1314/ElectoralQuotas#_ftn1" target="_blank"&gt;[1]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Whilst Australian governments have endorsed the concept of gender equality through a range of equal opportunity and anti-discrimination laws and policies, the matter of women’s parliamentary representation has been left to the political parties.&lt;FONT color="#FF0000"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt; In common with other countries, the argument about electoral gender quotas in Australia is divided along ideological lines, with the Australian Labor Party supporting voluntary party quotas and&lt;U&gt; the Liberal ̶ Nationals Coalition parties opposing them.&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Australian Labor Party&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The Australian Labor Party adopted an Affirmative Action Rule in 1994 that committed the party to achieving preselection of women for 35 per cent of winnable seats at all parliamentary elections by 2002.&lt;A href="http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1314/ElectoralQuotas#_ftn65" target="_blank"&gt;[65]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Coalition parties&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;The Coalition parties, comprising the Liberal Party of Australia and the Nationals, do not formally support gender quotas&lt;/STRONG&gt; on the basis that they contradict the principle of merit for political candidates. Instead, the parties have adopted strategies to develop women’s networks within the party and provide support for women to stand for preselection.&lt;A href="http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1314/ElectoralQuotas#_ftn68" target="_blank"&gt;[68]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Minor parties&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Australia’s larger minor parties, the Australian Democrats (formed in 1977) and Australian Greens (formed in 1992), have both embraced gender equity as a founding principle. &lt;STRONG&gt;Neither party has adopted a gender quota, although each has achieved a relatively high percentage of women candidates, and both have had women as party leaders.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Conclusions&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Electoral gender quotas are a type of special measure or affirmative action designed to increase women’s political representation. They may be mandated through constitutional or legislative change to create reserved seats or legal candidate quotas, or achieved through voluntary quotas adopted by individual political parties.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Gender quotas have gained the support of international organisations, including the United Nations, and have proven to be effective in ‘fast-tracking’ women’s political representation. However, they continue to be controversial, particularly in liberal democracies where critics oppose them on the basis that they discriminate against men and undermine the selection of candidates or parliamentarians on the basis of merit.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Certain factors contribute to the effectiveness of quota systems:&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P class="SubBullet"&gt;–&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; a commitment to women’s political representation from key decision-makers&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class="SubBullet"&gt;–&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; political parties play a crucial role as gatekeepers in recruiting, nominating and pre-selecting candidates&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class="SubBullet"&gt;–&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; voluntary party quotas require rules concerning the order of candidates on party lists to ensure that women candidates have &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; an equal opportunity to contest ‘winnable’ seats&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class="SubBullet"&gt;–&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; candidate quotas, whether legal or voluntary, may require additional incentives or sanctions for non-compliance in order to be &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; effective&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class="SubBullet"&gt;–&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; quota systems should be supported by appropriate mentoring and training programs to attract and support women &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; candidates, and&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P class="SubBullet"&gt;–&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; gender-sensitive parliaments are necessary to ‘remove the barriers to women’s full participation and offer a positive example &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; or model to society at large’.&lt;A href="http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1314/ElectoralQuotas#_ftn76" target="_blank"&gt;[76]&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;While gender quotas offer a mechanism for increasing the number of women in parliament, countries also need longer-term strategies that address historical barriers to women’s participation and actively promote gender-sensitive parliaments.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1314/ElectoralQuotas#_Toc372193127" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1314/ElectoralQuotas#_Toc372193127&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2015 07:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>cherry*135</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2015-02-03T07:13:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711028#M463151</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;*sheesh&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 08:32:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711028#M463151</guid>
      <dc:creator>fourandsixpants</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T08:32:48Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711034#M463157</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Nup.&amp;nbsp; Female, barren and single.&amp;nbsp; Can't happen.&amp;nbsp; Not acceptable.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 08:37:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711034#M463157</guid>
      <dc:creator>polksaladallie</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T08:37:01Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711038#M463160</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;not to mention ....Hardie Group.....asbestos.....mesothelioma&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 08:38:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711038#M463160</guid>
      <dc:creator>fourandsixpants</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T08:38:13Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711044#M463165</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/610624"&gt;@polksaladallie&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;Nup.&amp;nbsp; Female, barren and single.&amp;nbsp; Can't happen.&amp;nbsp; Not acceptable.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;yes it is possible because of the double standards.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;the labor party would not run a misogynist campaign a la LNP/abbott.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;bishop would be safe from that and could exploit all the "oh, see a female PM, look how modern and advanced we are" propaganda.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;see, it is only a barren female dog if it's labor (or green).&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 08:46:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711044#M463165</guid>
      <dc:creator>lal-au0</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T08:46:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711051#M463172</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;None of the LNPers will want to take the roll of PM!!! LOL&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;....and we do not want Julie Bishop because her policies would be same as &lt;STRIKE&gt;Tony Abbot's&lt;/STRIKE&gt; Rupert Murdoch's&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 08:53:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711051#M463172</guid>
      <dc:creator>fourandsixpants</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T08:53:09Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711265#M463333</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If Bishop gets the leadership, she'll scare Labor because she'll gather a fair bit of the female vote as well.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 11:25:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711265#M463333</guid>
      <dc:creator>vicr3000</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T11:25:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711280#M463344</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;She does not scare anyone LOL......but this&amp;nbsp;dehydrated shell of a&amp;nbsp;woman can muster a top class death stare&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'm a woman and I certainly do not admire Julie Bishop.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 11:37:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711280#M463344</guid>
      <dc:creator>fourandsixpants</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T11:37:26Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711282#M463345</link>
      <description>And there goes the Rudd - Gilard - Rudd circus again. One party as bad as the other. Erica</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 11:36:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711282#M463345</guid>
      <dc:creator>lind9650</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T11:36:22Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711288#M463348</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;But Bishop will have a harder time having to look down the barrel of the same gun the Libs were shooting at Labor during the RGR fiasco, without sounding like she's spruiking a double standard&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 11:39:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711288#M463348</guid>
      <dc:creator>para-slights</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T11:39:48Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711293#M463350</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Paints&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Why not ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Admire her ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 11:42:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711293#M463350</guid>
      <dc:creator>vicr3000</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T11:42:51Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711303#M463356</link>
      <description>Oh heck - please no! no! NO!!!</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 11:47:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711303#M463356</guid>
      <dc:creator>downeyas</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T11:47:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711307#M463357</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Her choices made are always self-serving to the detriment of others. I do not admire her for this.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Nothing to do with her gender.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 11:50:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711307#M463357</guid>
      <dc:creator>fourandsixpants</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T11:50:26Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711308#M463358</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/860379"&gt;@downeyas&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;Oh heck - please no! no! NO!!!&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;why not?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;awstrawlia would have it's own iron lady.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;mwahahahahhaha&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 11:50:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711308#M463358</guid>
      <dc:creator>lal-au0</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T11:50:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711355#M463390</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;No, she doesn;t know anything about domestic affairs. Being Foreign Affairs minister doesn't mean one will make a good PM.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Apart from that she said her aim in life was to be Minister of Foreign affairs, not a PM.... we will see about that....&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 12:40:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711355#M463390</guid>
      <dc:creator>cherry*135</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T12:40:43Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711356#M463391</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;uuhhmm i was joking.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 12:42:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711356#M463391</guid>
      <dc:creator>lal-au0</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T12:42:32Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711358#M463393</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I was replying to the opening post actually. That old hit reply and last posters name comes up thing again.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 12:44:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711358#M463393</guid>
      <dc:creator>cherry*135</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T12:44:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711399#M463412</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;am&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;How do you know she doesn't know anything about domestic affairs ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Would have far more knowledge than the Qld labor leader.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:37:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711399#M463412</guid>
      <dc:creator>vicr3000</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T13:37:40Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711400#M463413</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/610624"&gt;@polksaladallie&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;Nup.&amp;nbsp; Female, barren and single.&amp;nbsp; Can't happen.&amp;nbsp; Not acceptable.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;Wasn't that awful that Julia Gillard had to go through such discrimination. &amp;nbsp;How the tables have turned. &amp;nbsp;I doubt that many male voters would find a female PM acceptable in Australia still.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'd better get off here. &amp;nbsp;Another lightening storm coming in and I still have three shirts to iron.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:45:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711400#M463413</guid>
      <dc:creator>j*oono</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T13:45:26Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711404#M463415</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;you better go ironing!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;these things...they make me really homesick.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;i love australia but i have grown up in a civilised country and i just can't get used to being regarded as something to be sexually harassed at will by any strange man any time they feel like it.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;the thing i don't get is that: if you are so backwarded youse people should respect the ring around my finger. that is the old way isn't it?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;yet men combine the worst of both ages.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:55:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711404#M463415</guid>
      <dc:creator>lal-au0</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T13:55:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Julie Bishop for PM?.....??</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711405#M463416</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;joono&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Plenty of voters would find a female PM acceptable.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Bill Heffernan was an idiot for using those words or in fact making such an issue out of it.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:55:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Julie-Bishop-for-PM/m-p/1711405#M463416</guid>
      <dc:creator>vicr3000</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-02-02T13:55:34Z</dc:date>
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